TABASCO Sauce 140 Year Anniversary

[FABMAN]

Can you imagine a TABASCO bottle flying down drag strip 330mph. Looks like a sponsor opportunity to me.

 

[Nitrohaulic]

I'm not so sure that creates the best image!

The other night I was having dinner with a friend in TGI Friday's and we ordered their little miniature hamburgers named Sliders. I happen to know that 'sliders' used to be a common nickname for White Castle burgers due to a laxative affect they have on many. Like a comedian asked after White Castle came out with a jalapeno burger. "Just how bad do you need to sh*t?"

 

[FABMAN]

I'm not so sure that creates the best image!

The other night I was having dinner with a friend in TGI Friday's and we ordered their little miniature hamburgers named Sliders. I happen to know that 'sliders' used to be a common nickname for White Castle burgers due to a laxative affect they have on many. Like a comedian asked after White Castle came out with a jalapeno burger. "Just how bad do you need to sh*t?"

Ron, look at the image Mark Martin carried with him, lots for comedians to talk about, but it sure help pay the bills.

 

[Nitrohaulic]

Ron, look at the image Mark Martin carried with him, lots for comedians to talk about, but it sure help pay the bills.

I know. You may be right about Tabasco. I was just thinking about it too soon after having my "sliders."

We go to a chili cookoff at Stone Mountain Park in Georgia every year that's now up to over 300 entrants with a LOT of creative names (Afterburner, Skidmark, Fire in the Hole, Chuck Berry's Dingleberry Chili, etc). A hot sauce or chili sponsored nitro car would look great on display down there. A helluva lot better than the darned Arron Rents Nascar show car they have parked there every year.

 

[FABMAN]

I know. You may be right about Tabasco. I was just thinking about it too soon after having my "sliders."

We go to a chili cookoff at Stone Mountain Park in Georgia every year that's now up to over 300 entrants with a LOT of creative names (Afterburner, Skidmark, Fire in the Hole, Chuck Berry's Dingleberry Chili, etc). A hot sauce or chili sponsored nitro car would look great on display down there. A helluva lot better than the darned Arron Rents Nascar show car they have parked there every year.

We've done a lot of BBQ championship cook-offs, Chili cook-off sounds like lots of fun. Good Luck

 

[Nitrohaulic]

We've done a lot of BBQ championship cook-offs, Chili cook-off sounds like lots of fun. Good Luck

It's more fun and special than I could ever convey with words. This one hands out awards for best booth displays, and everyone keeps going more and more overboard each year. It's getting nuts!

Not only do you have the opportunity to TRY to sample over 300 chilis (going back to vote on the one you liked the best if you're still alive to do so), included is an all day, outdoor concert. They used to have actual old name bands but, have gone to using tribute bands (more of them, though).

Oh, and the cookoff entrants are competing for cash and exposure for their chili so, it's not just chili. ANYTHING they can think of to put out there that might make their chili taste good enough to get your vote. Fritos, Dorritos, grated cheese, crackers, etc. There's also a cornbread division that you get to sample. All this for a whopping ten bucks to get in!

On top of that, it's all inside Stone Mountain Park, which is worth going to on it's own. After the cookoff winds down, you go get a funnel cake (and a pint of milk for me!) and lay your blanket out in the field for the laser show, which is done against the mountain's HUGE relief carving. I remember it's something like 200 ft from the front horse's mouth to the rear horse's tail. 50 ft from the point furthest out to the deepest point in.

Get up Sunday morning in the park's campground (because, what could be more entertaining than a bunch of tents loaded with hundreds of people who are all full of chili, cheese, and beer?) and go to the Marriott, which not only has a breakfast buffet (the kind where you tell them what you want on your omelet) but, has an outdoor, second floor balcony that you can enjoy it on. Sit there with a view of the mountain, with it's tram occasionally going up and down it. When you get done, walk it off by hiking the mountain!

There's a train at the base of the mountain. If you want to take it slow, just take the tram up the steep side with a round trip ticket, walk DOWN the trail (which starts in the open, then progresses to woods and boulders near the bottom). Give them the other half of your tram ticket at the train station and they'll haul you back to where you started. Walking DOWN that hill is no picnic. There's names and dates chiseled into the rock that go back to 1800s (with one of them reading "Goodyear"). I've read that most of the state of Georgia sits on that piece of granite that happens to protrude from the ground there. We drive 300 miles one way each year to it and it's worth every mile. First Saturday in October or last one in September.

Check out the pics and you'll see what I mean about displays. Just start at around #110 for something representative. #153 is a must see, LOL. #252 isn't bad, either. I can just hear that server saying something like "We use only the best ingredients!" There's even a chili Santa Claus! The guy in the middle of pic #356 likes to occasionally sit on a chair in front of their booth and raise his loincloth to flash ladies with a big, pink...ahem...something else that's made out of cloth. Each year he does it till someone complains and the cops make him stop!

The 2006 Great Miller Lite Chili Cook-Off

Here's Stone Mountain Park's link.

Stone Mountain Park: Georgia theme park in Atlanta

You gotta play the laser show sample on this page. There's thousands of people sitting in the field for that show.

Stone Mountain Park Atlanta fun kids family attractions laser light show riverboat cruises scenic train ride the ducks plantation tours skyride

It's a beautiful place with an interesting and controversial history. Unfortunately, some of it involves the KKK.

Stone Mountain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The largest low relief sculpture in the world...

He was not able to begin work on the carving until 1923 due to funding problems...

As a result of the conflict, Borglum left, taking all of his sketches and models with him. Borglum went on to carve the famous Mount Rushmore sculpture in South Dakota.

Finishing touches to the masterpiece were completed in 1972.

The carving is actually much larger than it appears from Stone Mountain Park's attractions. Workers could easily stand on a horse's ear or inside a horse's mouth to escape a sudden rain shower.

Click on carving pics at the Wikipedia link, then picture three tractor-trailers end to end up there, or people standing in the horses' mouths or ears. That mountain is HUGE.

 

[Nitrohaulic]

Just watch this from 3:00 on.

YouTube - Stone Mountain Laser Show 2007

Here, instead of taking a walk up the mountain, you can take a watch! (don't worry, the music changes!)

YouTube - Stone Mountain Part 1

This one has a shot of the water clock with patented "flyball governor." When the balls go faster, the linkage closes the gate, slowing the water to the wheel. When they slow down, they open the gate, speeding it back up. Supposed to be very accurate.

YouTube - Stone Mountain Part 2