evans (11/29/82)
Could someone tell me the "proper" spelling of the hot sauce mentioned in PHC? thanks Steve Crandall mhuxt!evans
minow (12/01/82)
If I were writing it in Swedish, the hot sauce would be spelled
"Ahooah" or some such. The company that makes it, "Halsadenda
Salsa Company" is a delightful pun on the most famous Swedish
immigrant song, "Haelsa dem daer hemma" ('ae' is the one with two
dots, the meaning is "Say hello to them back home".
In case you've never had the privilege, Swedish food is incredibly
bland. The standard Swedish cookbook has been slowly adding spices
to the recipies from edition to edition. For a long time, Stockholm
had the only Mexican resturant in the world that didn't serve tortillas.
Hope this helps, if not, remember Garrison's words from the liner
notes of the Anniversary album:
"We are in the position of a man who lives in a town with no Chinese
resturants and has to make his own Moo Goo Gai Ding. It's almost
impossibible
impossible to make right, he doesn't have a recipe, the Super Valu
doesn't stock the right herbs and spices, but every so often he pulls
off a Ding that brings back memories of Dings he used to know. For a
man in the wrong place at the wrong time, that's as good as it gets."
Martin Minow
decvax!minow