The Beginnings of Motley Sauce
How Motley Sauce Came To Be:
So, one day I’m out on Bird Island. Bird Island isn’t actually an Island it is more like a sand dune that only appears when the tide is low in St. Augustine, Florida. It’s a place where boats pull up and people hang out while enjoying Island Music and the cold beverage of their choice until the tide rolls back in.
On this day I ran in to a guy who was in the Hot Sauce manufacturing business. We were enjoying a couple cold ones. I told him I thought the majority of hot sauce seemed to all be the same, very hot, red, and loaded with vinegar. I also thought the labeling was strange, almost like a bad tattoo attached to a bottle that made it hard to tell exactly what I was getting. After briefly educating me in the Hot Sauce business he, being a keen business man, suggested I come up with a recipe and he would help me whip up a batch. Never one to back down, I agreed to take on the challenge.
So I tell my wife the story, and after some eye rolling we were off...
The one thing I knew is that we wanted to make a different type sauce. After throwing it back and forth with my wife, we noticed many large companies where putting Hot/Sweet products on the market, Hot/Sweet Soda, Hot/Sweet Candy, even Hot/Sweet Ice Cream, it was crazy. Our thought was if Fortune 500 companies went far enough to produce and test these products to the public there must be something to the Hot/Sweet combination. So our thought was all we needed to do is reverse it and make a Sweet/Hot Sauce.
We knew we didn’t want a sauce that was a traditional red or a label that was confusing or goofy. There are already countless sauce choices in that category, which are delicious, and we didn’t want to pile on. We also didn’t want our sauce to melt our face like a character who just laid eyes on the Ark of the Covenant in and Indian Jones movie. We were after a sweet taste with a nice little kick. So we dug in, picked up 3 food processers, some ingredients, and went at it. After about a year of formulation, incorporation, and design we made it happen...
