[Sca-cooks] OT: on a tangential note -- "Chili Sauce"

[Stefan li Rous]

Adamantius asked:
> I was just wondering whether there was any connection to this
> mysterious bottled chililess chili sauce. Apart from seafood cocktail
> sauce, what is chili sauce of the Heinz variety used for? Or are you
> supposed to put it on chili?
Well, I like the Heinz chili sauce, and similar other sauces, on French 
Fries and other places some folks might use catsup, including burgers. 
To me, catsup is often rather bland. Of course if I don't have such 
sauces I can often get by by adding Tabasco or other pepper sauce to 
catsup. And I don't like tarter sauce, so I like the seafood cocktail 
sauce for seafood and shrimp and such. I prefer the chili sauce a bit 
better on things like hamburgers and French Fries compared to using the 
seafood sauces. Probably because the seafood sauces tend to be a bit 
sweeter.

But until you mentioned it, I didn't realize that the "chili" sauces 
didn't contain red pepper flakes. But I just went into the kitchen and 
checked the ingredient list on the Heinz chili sauce and peppers are 
not listed. What are the little yellowish flakes in the chili sauce 
then? Maybe there are chilis in the sauce but categorized under 
"spices"?

Stefan
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