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I admit, I've done it!

Ok so Thailand is not the place to travel with hot sauce, but head over to Nepal on a trek and you'll sooo appreciate that little bottle to spice up your weeks of bland food.

So who else has traveled with one?

Did you find it worth it's weight? Maybe in Gold?

I don't travel with it, but I'm a big fan of Tiger Sauce. It's available at most American grocery stores. It's not a hot sauce really, more of a sweeter pepper sauce.

lol ive read of ppl doing this, and i can totaly understand why. i dont think i will need it for central and south america but manbey in other parts of the world i will bring some thing like this.

I don't do it myself as n=most of the places i go have plenty hot enough food already

Sounds like a plan, though, as it wouldn't weigh too much.

I don't travel with it, but I've always got some Tabasco or Cholula available in our apartment.

I did just bring back some habanero sauces for my German bros-in-law who think they are really into hot food. ha ha ha ha

We will be driving to see them next week. Should be fun.

I don't carry it with me, but I like shopping on those stores which just have racks and racks of different hot sauces all with labels describing themselves as the most mouth-exploding mix. I generally pick up a pottle or two as a gift for friends.

I have Chimichurri with me at all times...

Who dares burns is great for those who love spicy stuff

haha YES!

Ever since the disappointment of finding out that Cuban food is not spicy, I've vowed to carry Tobasco with me whenever I travel abroad.

I definitely do travel with hot sauce and Doppleganger, you'll probably want it in South America too. If you get out of the cities, food gets bland quick.

Worth the weight - just try and keep it in a durable plastic bottle. I had a glass bottle break in my pack and dye a bunch of my socks, but they were tastier after that.

I sometimes carry Tabasco around, but usually not when I travel. But I've found that salt is sometimes needed when traveling in Taiwan or China.

i don't carry any with me, but i have a friend who is an absolute hot sauce junkie and he almost always seems to have some handy.

I'm in love with the girl on the Cholula bottle. She accompanies me on every backpacking trip and her charms have helped me make many friends along the way.

hot sauce, Adobo, currie powder.
Some places just need it

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I never did before now, but since being in Spain, I have become addicted to "Brava" sauce. It's this hot sauce (actually not so much of a hot sauce, as a really really spicy ketchup) that is usually mixed with mayonnaise to make a sauce for 'patatas bravas' (a great Spanish tapa). The stuff is incredible...a few drops create a ton of flavor...unfortunately, I don't know if it's available anywhere outside of Spain

With "finding a clean bathroom" being a major issue on the road I am suprised everyone is so gung-ho about having hot sauce with them.

I love a good spicey meal with some really hot sauce occasionally but that is usually when I know i'm going to be around my house in the hours after.

I don't leave home without it.

I prefer Caribbean style habanero sauces. Marie Sharp is a brand from Belize that is easily found. They have one sauce with Red Habanero, carrot, onion, garlic, key lime juice & vinegar. I like the Caribbean sauces because you get the heat of the habanero (or scotch bonnet) and the flavor from the other ingredients. If traveling to the Caribbean or Central America I don't take anything except a small bottle of tobassco just in case.

I have never had an upset stomach from hot sauce and it gets your endorphines flowing - bring on the heat!

I learned my lesson from an extended trip to Australia and New Zealand. I loved what I saw, the things I ded and the people we stayed with and met, but after weeks and weeks, I found the food boring. I longed for a bottle of hot sauce to add some zip!

Concur on the Belizean habenero sauces. Marie Sharps has saved MANY a bland meal in many countries. It consistently gets one of the "things we could not have done without" marks on the post trip list.

I carry chipotle peppers canned with Adobo Sauce every summer to Cape Cod. There's a new Stop n Shop in Orleans where you can get everything from lemongrass to fish sauce tomatillos, but this is one essential them Yankees refuse to stock. With the influx of Jamaican service industry workers, the A and P in Provincetown has all sorts of jerk sauce, malta, and ginger beer...
Nice to know one's dining choices in the Cod are no longer limited to the deep fried garbage of the sea, served with melted butter.