Big Orson on May 22, 2009 at 12:47 pm said:

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.

One of my favorite ways to eat it is on top of freshly shucked raw oysters instead of horseradish or cocktail sauce.

gui_tarzan on May 22, 2009 at 12:01 pm said:

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 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.

TC on May 22, 2009 at 12:04 pm said:

I’m not much of a Ginger fan either, but MaryAnn was HOT!!

DK on May 22, 2009 at 11:41 am said:

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.

I’m not much of a Ginger fan either, but MaryAnn was HOT!!

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.

gui_tarzan on May 22, 2009 at 7:08 am said:

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.

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.

Scott Roberts on May 22, 2009 at 8:39 am said:

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.

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.

Of course, I need to try some of that Kentucky Grilled Chicken, too…

Mr Orson knows what I’m talkin about.

Sandi on May 21, 2009 at 3:12 pm said:

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

Yeah what she just said. I think.

on May 21, 2009 at 7:13 pm said:

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.

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.

Welcome to TTF Jason!

Sickmont on May 21, 2009 at 4:49 pm said:

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.

Sideways?

That’s the floor, not a wall that you’re leaning against. Get your drunk up!

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!

Let me know what you guys think of the multi-page layout.

L8R G8R’s