Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Hot Mamas with a Twist

Grocery shopping can be fascinating.

Making this statement about grocery shopping in Germany is one of the many things we had never expected.

Hot Mamas in the BBQ aisle...oho, can you feel it?

Fiery, saucy German sauce makers are hard at work to bring you Hot Mamas' bottles with such evocative names as Painmaker and Habanero No. 15.

Grandma's ketchup is still around, of course, but international foods and their derivatives conquer more shelf space.

The most striking thing about Hot Mamas' sauces is the child-proof cap.

How did it happen that you can buy weapons grade chilli sauce at the supermarket but you cannot get aspirin at the drugstore?

This company either has the full support of the EU or that of Bavarian politicians trying to live up to their notion of hotness.

A bottled up Hot Mama also features a warning label, with good reason, as you will find if you are adventurous enough to try a microgramm of the pure content.

We love it, but we have a safety suggestion.

Someone has to establish the chemical reference value LD 50 (short for Lethal Dose 50, the dose at which 50% of test subjects die)  of these brews, and it needs to go onto the label.

In the absence of the class action law suit instrument over here, there is no urgency to the suggestion. However, the K-Landnews team expects some sort of media reaction if it turns out that policemen cornered by black block protesters refill their pepper spray canisters with a bottle of Painmaker and thus get to live another day.

We'll check the tabloid Bild Zeitung for news about that.

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