Louisiana Hot Sauce

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Louisiana "The Original" Hot Sauce is a pepper sauce produced by Bruce Foods, a Cajun and Mexican food company. Bruce Foods was founded in 1928 in New Iberia, Louisiana. Louisiana "The Original" Hot Sauce is a typical cayenne pepper sauce similar to Texas Pete or Frank's Red Hot. It is made from aged peppers, vinegar, and salt. It is bright red and thin with a moderate heat level. Louisiana Hot Sauce is not as hot as Tabasco sauce or most gourmet hot sauces, and the company uses the milder heat as a selling point, calling the sauce "Not too hot, not too mild." Bruce Foods created a second brand to satisfy those with a preference for the heat level of Tabasco sauce, producing Louisiana Gold Hot Sauce to face more squarely against McIlhenny Company's more popular brand.

Louisiana "The Original" is most common in 5 oz. shaker bottles and is known for its yellow, blue, and red label and yellow plastic safety seal adorned with the "Original" logo.