A few weekends ago, we went to the NC Hot Sauce Contest in Oxford, NC.  It seems they have a festival for just about anything here, huh?  Well, this one did not disappoint! There were a bunch of little tents set up by the different hot sauce companies with samples of their sauces.  Yuuum!  They were all pretty good except some Caribbean one that was definitely going for the heat factor – we were burning pretty good for about 15 minutes
after that.

After the pain wore off (thanks to some beer), we were able to taste the
remaining sauces.  Because the votes are controlled by who sells the most hot sauce at Stovalls, we headed over there and bought our bottle of the John Boy and Billy hot pepper sauce, our personal favorite!

We also checked out the hot pepper eating contest.  After experiencing that crazy Caribbean sauce, all I can say is NO THANKS!  The contestants all ended up giving up on eating 5 different chile peppers and split the prize money ($300)! My mouth hurts just thinking about it!

Posted by Carrie on Tuesday, September 22, 2009
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