Tabasco sauce is a brand of
hot sauce made from
tabasco peppers (Capsicum frutescens var. tabasco),
vinegar, and salt, and aged in
white oak barrels for three years. It has a hot, spicy flavor and is popular in many parts of the world. Tabasco is
trademarked as the
brand name for the variety of tabasco sauce marketed by one of the United States' biggest makers of hot sauce, the
McIlhenny Company of
Avery Island, Louisiana. Often, the word "tabasco" is rendered in lowercase when referring to the botanical variety, but in uppercase, "Tabasco," when referring to the actual trademarked brand name. While there are many other kinds of "hot pepper sauce" on the market, most of them are similar to Tabasco, and Tabasco is by far the most famous. Although it is produced in the
United States, it acquired its name from the state of
Tabasco in
Mexico.
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