[alexallain]

On the topic of food...it's interesting that Tabasco is specifically mentioned. I'm originally from Louisiana, and my family and I prefer Crystal hot sauce; we think it has more flavor.

[thenomad]

I suspect that it's less a case of Tabasco being ideal, and more a compromise between "ideal" and "aquirable world-wide".

Having spent literally months trying to find the correct chilli sauce for authentic Pho recently, I'm sympathetic to that argument.