Danny Cash's Mean Streak Habanero Mango Hot Sauce
If I had one "favorite sauce manufacturer" -- I don't, but if I did -- Danny Cash would probably be my pick. His Radical Heat is a sauce I enjoy a great deal and the Garlic-Serrano (Bottled Up Anger) is one my wife enjoys regularly. For the towering heights of the Radical Heat comes a mighty fall here in one of the most unpalatable sauces I've yet stumbled across.
Every time I've tried this, with the exception of about 6 bites of a salmon dish my wife made, I have disliked to intensely disliked it. It's taken my half the bottle to figure out why, but I do have it. "Habanero Mango" is a bit of a misnomer here -- this is more or less Mango-Vinegar. There are only minor hints of habanero, let alone heat, at all, which isn't the worst thing ever, but what is the worst thing is the mixing of flavors. The astringent nature of some rather un-ripe mangos combined with more astringency of vinegar and very little of anything else for not a good sauce at all makes. Though I tried repeatedly, I have yet to find one thing that this is what I would call "good" with and it tends to distract heavily from whatever it hits. By itself, it is, obviously, a huge miss in my book.
Bottom line: Blech. It saddens me somewhat to write this, but I guess it shows that no one is perfect. This is a total and complete misfire from Danny Cash.
Breakdown:
Heat level: 0
Flavor: 0
Flexibility: 0
Enjoyment to dollar factor: 0
Overall: 0
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