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Multi Review: Big Orson’s Citizen Cajun Mango Habanero Salsas (Hot & Very Hot)
By DK | May 21, 2009 |
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Reviewer #3 – Sandi
When I was contacted about doing a review that would be “right up my alley” I was really excited! Mango Habanero is up my alley. We love fruit based salsas. I was sent 2 jars, “Hot” and a “Very Hot”. The label is quirky with a guy in a baseball cap, glasses and a big cigar hanging out of his mouth. Different.
Both straight out of the jar have this sweet start and the only flavors that stands out is garlic and ginger. The only difference is the heat level. The hot is not so hot..maybe a 2 the very hot is maybe a 4 on heat. The label says to enjoy this “sweet heat” with beef, pork, chicken, seafood or just on your favorite chip.
For the chip test, neither salsa works. It’s just to sweet for the salty of any chip. And I tried a few from corn chips to just Yukon chips. However it does work really well when you dip veggies in it. Broccoli, carrots and cucumbers just pick up the ginger/garlic sweet. I haven’t tried it yet, but I could see this making a great dip if mixed with some sour cream and mayo.
The next was to try it on beef. We had made some steak kabobs and decided to make some tacos with the leftovers. For me this salsa added the perfect sweet and heat to the dish, especially the hotter version. No need for extra sauces!
Since then I have used in on chicken as a dip and also on just rice. The ginger taste just works for that. If there were a sushi bar here I bet it would really work for that also. Something else that comes to mind is rumaki. Not a lot of people are into it, but it would work great as the liver marinade. I’ll let you know when I try it.
Over all, I don’t know that I would just pick up this salsa off the grocery store shelf before I tried it, but it is a good salsa to experiment with. I look forward to seeing some recipes from Big Orson’s.
Heat level 2-4/10
Label 4/10
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Topics: Hot Product Reviews, Reviews | 26 Comments »
Great job with the reviews everyone.
Let me know what you guys think of the multi-page layout.
L8R G8R’s
I really like the layout of this review. It’s much easier to read, I think…rather than having all the reviews in a row
Thank you for the gracious reviews. THere are plenty more recipes at my website (www.bigorson.com).
To answer reviewer #2′s questions, the onions were in fact Vidalias (my co-packer is in the Vidalia growing district). Because peppers vary in terms of heat depending on their growing conditions, time of year, sub-species, etc. I used habanero powder simply for the sake of consistency.
I realize that for this crowd, the Very Hot likely isn’t more than a 5 on a 10 point scale. For the non-chilehead general public, it’s plenty hot.
If anyone has other questions, I’ll be happy to answer them. Thanks for the support!
Man, i’m used to everything being in a row but now you’ve got me going all sideways and sh*t. Way to confuse the drunken guy and screw up his equilibrium, folks.
But seriously, nicely done review.
Sideways?
That’s the floor, not a wall that you’re leaning against. Get your drunk
up! 
DK, it’s RJ not JR, just to correct that part. Thanks all for the reviews, they were good, especially from the 2 newbies. I will have to disagree with Sandi, I think the salt offsets the mango sweetness really nice and goes really good with the Multigrain Tostitos which are my go to salsa chip. I am a big fan of sweet and salty together. Other than that I like your experimentation especially with the kabobs.
Welcome to TTF Jason!
The sideways view is cool, but not with my cell phone.
Ok, JR is now RJ.
So :nerd:, what do mean by “sideways view”? It’s the same as always, you just gotta click a link to see the next review on the next page.
There’s nothing sideways that I can see.
I was just going by what was said before me. On the phone its just another page that has to be added rather than scrolling so it takes longer. Its okay though its not like I can wait to I get home to read it all the way through.
Yeah what she just said. I think.
Something about this review makes me want to visit the “Big Chicken”!
Mr Orson knows what I’m talkin about.
Jason’s right, for those of us that don’t like a tremendous amount of heat, these salsas are perfect. The flavors are amazing because they come at you from different directions at different times, sort of like little surprises around each corner of your journey through the jar. They really are a nice change from everything else at the supermarket.
Truthfully, I prefer the Popeye’s a couple of blocks south of the Big Chicken on 41.
Of course, I need to try some of that Kentucky Grilled Chicken, too…
Good reviews. I’ve had this salsa and, well, I’ll tell you what I think about it when the W.O.F. salsa contest is over.
As far as the multiple pages – please ditch it. Unless the pages are 10 miles long, there’s no need to break the reviews up. It’s considered to be a bad practice in web usability terms, and a lot of sites notoriously do it to “falsely” increase the number of ad impressions.
Thanks for the input Scott. Some of the multi-reviews get rather lengthy, especially when you add in the pics. That was the reasoning for paging the article. It’s worked well with the comments, that’s for sure.
Great reviews! I will keep an eye out for this stuff, I think it sounds great.
Welcome to TTF gui_tarzan!
From the reviews, this stuff sounds really tasty. I noticed that a couple of the reviewers mentioned ginger. I’m not a ginger person myself, so I’m wondering just how noticeable the ginger is? I can deal with it if it’s not overwhelming, which is how it seems here.
The heat sounds like it falls just where I like it with a salsa, especially a sweet fruit based salsa.
Again, great reviews everyone. Between Sandi’s cooking, MeltMyFace’s straight to the point simplicity, and RJ’s highly descriptive writing, this is one of my favorite reviews I’ve read. I’m really looking forward to reading more from these guys.
Thanks DK. I have to say I really tried to pick out the individual flavors but my palate isn’t quite refined enough in some areas to be certain. What I can say is I’m reminded of certain flavors and I obviously can taste certain ingredients. I don’t recall tasting ginger the last time I had this but I have a new jar so I’ll have to try to figure it out again this weekend.
When I was younger I loved it as hot as it could get. Now that I’m older (46) and have had stomach issues, I like it mild but with tons of flavor and just a hint of a kick. Jason’s products fit my tastes very well and they’re a LOT better than anything else I can get around here on the commercial side.
I’m not much of a Ginger fan either, but MaryAnn was HOT!!
I love me some heat, but with salsa, especially the sweet fruit based ones, I would rather have it on the milder side of the spectrum. I’m a scooper, not a dipper, so I like the heat to be at a level to allow for consumption of mass quantities.
I bought me some at the FFS because I really enjoyed the unique flavor. The ginger is quite noticeable, but it really works well here. I can truthfully say this the best mango salsa I have ever had. I think ginger can dominate, but I appreciate the combinations going on here.
The salsa is layered with flavors…first you taste the sweetness of the mango, then the tangyness of the Vidalia onions, the ginger then surfaces on your palate and finally the pepper blooms in the back of your throat. While the ginger isn’t a predominant flavor, it sort of ties the other flavors together and makes it just a bit different. The fact that it’s primarily a fruit-based (as opposed to a tomato-based) product sets it apart as well.
One of my favorite ways to eat it is on top of freshly shucked raw oysters instead of horseradish or cocktail sauce.
Thanks, sounds like the ginger won’t be an issue with me.
The eggrolls sound like a great way to use it, and so does the oysters. Gonna be hard to replace Lethal Ingestion as my favorite on the oysters though. But I do love oysters in any way you can serve ‘em up.