Pico Pica: World’s Greatest Hot Sauce

First things first: buy your­self some Pico Pica imme­di­ately. Then buy me some for rec­om­mend­ing it.

Sec­ondly, this is not salsa. I cannot empha­size this enough. Every time I start talk­ing about how much I love my Pico Pica, people try dip­ping chips in it. It’s not dip, dammit, it’s a condi­ment. Think of it as a replace­ment for Tabasco or Crys­tal, but with a deep, com­plex flavor and no vine­gary smell or taste. It’s got heat, but the heat is second to the flavor.

This is the sauce I grew up on. My par­ents, because they love me so much started putting this stuff on my food when I was a year old. I put it on eggs, I put it in Chili, I put it on tacos and bur­ri­tos and enchi­ladas and any­thing else I want to improve. The com­pany rec­om­mends it on steak, and while I wouldn’t go pour­ing it on a porter­house, it’s pretty good on carne asada.

I wish that I could invent some kind of internet-​based scratch and lick that would let you taste this stuff. But hon­estly, that would be too cruel: you’d end up spend­ing the whole time you were wait­ing for it to arrive lick­ing your monitor.

Me, I’m nurs­ing my last quar­ter of a bottle and curs­ing myself for blow­ing my allowance on get­ting my win­dows tinted. Stupid win­dows! You are fla­vor­less and uninteresting!

October 17th, 2005 · Category: Reviews · Tags: , , , , , , , , , · 4 Comments »