A Caliber was my rental car once on a road trip from Boston up and down Cape Cod. Total garbage. I remember trying to floor it and merge into traffic and that thing had no power whatsoever, so I was nearly rear ended multiple times. Inside was cheap and poorly designed, radio stropped working and check engine light…

My mom had the Renault LeCar. At the time, it was the cheapest new car you could buy. There was ALWAYS something wrong with it and it died (complete engine failure) less than three years later. Some junkyard picked it up from the highway and paid a few hundred in cash for the corpse.

I learned to drive on a stick-shift 1979 Chevette and it was my first car, passed down from other family members. The first year, my foot went right through the rusted out floorboard (while driving) and I could see the street passing by below. I felt like Fred Flintstone. Exactly as you describe, a mechanic attached a…

Here’s another good one from the Twin Cities: www.hellraisinghotsauce.com.

Agree, Black Christmas may have been the original POV stalker in the house — as well as perhaps the best rendition on the “the calls are coming from in the house” urban legend — but Halloween gave it a whole new mythology and brought it mainstream. I love that Carpenter even consulted Clark before Halloween and was…

Beat me to it!

Bob Clark and the cast of Black Christmas would like a word with you.

A Minnesota-themed “snack ship” built for the Super Bowl, and made entirely of local food and drink!

As someone who grew up in a suburb of Des Moines, this all rings true. Schools, cost of living, safe neighborhoods, available services. etc. — it was a good trade off for a somewhat sterile and boring environment (that admittedly has gotten a lot better in the past 20 years). When I got older and wanted to explore all…

Awesome, small world!

You can find us at Kowalski’s on Grand, or any Kowalski’s in the TC, and also at all Lunds/Byerlys in the TC. Golden Fig on Grand carries us too. Give us a try, we don’t make anything hotter than habanero sauces ... yet!

Love that show. I’ve been as a spectator, but not as a vendor. That’s a long haul for me to drive, and I would have to drive in order to transport product! On the bucket list of shows I want to attend as a vendor for sure.

Several reasons:

Fatalii peppers are great. And to your point, it’s getting better as people shift toward local and small businesses, and the demand for food made without preservatives and additives. Also, people are now exposed to many different kinds of foods, spices and ingredients they would have never tried before — all that…

I’ve taken to dumping hot sauce into the salsa we buy just to get it up a few notches. The problem with being a small business like us is that customers like you, who appreciate a good fiery salsa, are definitely in the minority. When we launch our salsa line this holiday season, everything has been toned down to…

You are awesome, thanks for supporting the little guys! Please let us know what you think after you try them!

Hot sauce, like most food/drink, is more of an art than a science — anyone can make it hot. And while extract hot sauces have their place for fiery food challenges and messing with people, they have really fallen out of favor with the rise of quality, small-batch gourmet sauces that bring the heat AND the flavor.

We just started selling on Amazon — search up Hellraising Hot Sauce. You can check out our website and FB too.

Dave’s Insanity was once the hottest sauce you could get and it was made with capsaicin extract which also gives the sauce a nasty bitter taste. There are a TON of sauces that have now eclipsed Dave’s in heat and flavor, but the fact that you still have the bottle after 15 years is exactly why many hot sauce makers…

The Minnesota comment is spot on — my wife and I own a hot sauce company in the Twin Cities and when we do tastings at grocery stores at least 50% of the people complain that our wimpiest, mildest sauce is “too hot” or they can’t eat it because they are “Scandinavian.”