Sunday, August 28, 2005

15th Annual Hot Sauce Festival

The 15th Annual Hot Sauce Festival, a gig that's hyped as a competition between Austin and San Antonio for the stake of the title 'best hot sauce in the world.'

Well unfortunately lines were too damn long anywhere to sample anything. It was only 95 instead of 103, so the weather was a bit more bearable.

The festival is held at Waterloo Park, and draws about 15,000 - 20,000 people. Some very catchy slogans are used to promote the hot sauce, unfortunately not catchy enough to remember a damn one of them.


A pleasant treat was a performance by Austin's own The Gourds, who do a fine cover of Gin and Juice, A Snoop Doggy Dogg song. Check out the gal with the tamale jar balanced on her head!


I suppose the heat was intense, it made ME sweat worse than Pat Ewing, game 7, NBA semi-final competition, but the shade trees were around, and very much appreciated.

Hot sauce rules!

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