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It’s Official - Mad Dog Inferno Is The World’s Hottest Sauce

It’s Official - Mad Dog Inferno Is The World’s ...

Dedham, Mass., July 15, 1998---The question of which hot sauce delivers the most heat has been a source of fiery debate among chili-heads for years. We have a winner. In...

It’s Official - Mad Dog Inferno Is The World’s ...

Dedham, Mass., July 15, 1998---The question of which hot sauce delivers the most heat has been a source of fiery debate among chili-heads for years. We have a winner. In...

Boston-Bred Sauce is Cat's Meow

Boston-Bred Sauce is Cat's Meow

Taste Trend -Boston Herald, Wednesday, May 13, 1998 A drop of Mad Cat Hot Sauce first pussyfoots across your tongue, then makes you yowl.  If you like hot sauce, the...

Boston-Bred Sauce is Cat's Meow

Taste Trend -Boston Herald, Wednesday, May 13, 1998 A drop of Mad Cat Hot Sauce first pussyfoots across your tongue, then makes you yowl.  If you like hot sauce, the...

Cook's Illustrated Names Mad Dog Original BBQ Sauce "Best In America"

Cook's Illustrated Names Mad Dog Original BBQ S...

Designer sauces come out on top in a dual taste test, while sauces heavy in starch and corn syrup bring up the rear.

Cook's Illustrated Names Mad Dog Original BBQ S...

Designer sauces come out on top in a dual taste test, while sauces heavy in starch and corn syrup bring up the rear.

Boston Herald: Hot-Sauce maker goes for the Burn

Boston Herald: Hot-Sauce maker goes for the Burn

Boston Herald, Sunday, August 20, 1995 Not surprisingly, it’s called Inferno and it’s searing sauce maker David Ashley’s name onto the culinary map.  

Boston Herald: Hot-Sauce maker goes for the Burn

Boston Herald, Sunday, August 20, 1995 Not surprisingly, it’s called Inferno and it’s searing sauce maker David Ashley’s name onto the culinary map.  

Pepper people: Tabasco’s for wimps

Pepper people: Tabasco’s for wimps

Boston Herald April 28, 1995 The alleged crime: assault.  The setting: a late-night Denny’s in Lebanon, N. H.  The weapon: Tabasco sauce. Some like it hot.

Pepper people: Tabasco’s for wimps

Boston Herald April 28, 1995 The alleged crime: assault.  The setting: a late-night Denny’s in Lebanon, N. H.  The weapon: Tabasco sauce. Some like it hot.

Invasion of the Chileheads

Invasion of the Chileheads

Dave “Mad Dog” Ashley hunches his 6-foot-1-inch frame over the kitchen table, measuring a minuscule portion of a dark, viscous liquid on the tip of a broken matchstick.

Invasion of the Chileheads

Dave “Mad Dog” Ashley hunches his 6-foot-1-inch frame over the kitchen table, measuring a minuscule portion of a dark, viscous liquid on the tip of a broken matchstick.