After New Orleans, we headed west and made a quick stop at Avery Island, LA where the
McIlhenny Co. makes Tabasco sauce. As soon as we got out of the RV, we could smell the Tabasco in the air.
We toured the factory (too bad it was Sunday so we didn't see the production line running) and of course, we went to their store. We tasted their sweet and spicy ice cream and the jalapeno ice cream not to mention all of the different sauces, salsas, and spreads.
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| Kait and Andrew at the Tabasco factory. |
There were quite a few interesting tidbits we learned about the McIlhenny Co. For example, did you know that the pepper mash ferments for 3 years in oak barrels they get from Jack Daniels before they mix it with vinegar and bottle it? When they can't use the barrels anymore, they chop them up and sell them as spicy wood chips for your smoker. Also, Avery Island is on top of a huge underground mountain of salt (they think the dome is bigger than Mt. Everest) and they mine that salt for the factory. Pretty neat stuff.
We like seeing how things are made. Don't know why. We just do.
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