I’ve pined for a good (and available) Zombie beer on the ZRC Twitter off and on for some time, but the joys of Facebook brought me news of hot sauce, long my first love when it comes to bottled food concoctions – *Zombie themed* hot sauce.

Observe:

Yes, HauntedHotSauce.com does indeed sell a variety of Zombie-themed hot sauces, and even provides cedar ‘coffins’ for the bottles to reside in (although the sauces can also be ordered without coffins).

Now, I have to warn you, the marketing does not appear very Zombie Friendly. Observe the information on their original hot sauce flavor:

Fleshfeast is our original recipe hot sauce, the one that started it all!

Fleshfeast is rich, robust, thick, extremely flavorful. A bit hotter than Tabasco, Fleshfeast is designed for everyday use.

Fleshfeast is topped with a tattered scrap of aged burial cloth and a toe tag.

Yes, the sauces have names like ‘Mortician’s Mold’ “Ghoul Drool’ and ‘Fleshfeast’. Combined with the coffins, burial shrouds and what not, it’s hard to argue that HauntedHotSauce.com is promoting a particularly novel or enlightened view of the Differently Animated.

But then again, every market’s got to start somewhere. Perhaps if quality Zombie themed hot sauces take off we can get some less inflammatory marketing, a bit Zombie Friendlier, a bit less death-and-graveyard obsessed. Zombie Culture is, obviously, about more than loitering around where corpses are traditionally stored.

And from a hot sauce lover’s perspective it’s refreshing to see that the Haunted Hot Sauce flavors don’t seem to be confined in the endless, and largely pointless, race to the top of the heat scale that so many sauces compete in. Given that it’s possible to buy more or less pure capsaicin, which of course isn’t so much a food flavoring as a severe irritant, I for one would rather see hot sauces compete on flavor. This basil and red pepper focus they’ve got going is intriguing.

I think I’ll have to pick up a bottle or two for the ZRC and do a formal review.

Thanks to Marlena Midnite of Midnite Mausoleum for bringing this one to our attention.

Tags: Zombie Products

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