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I say play, I say go for it, you know.
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No bars held, or hold, or whatever.
(Laughter)
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(Liza) No holds barred.
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(Sonia) No holds barred.
(Laughter)
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I say play with it,
I say go all in, you know.
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No barred - what the hell?
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I can't even frigging remember
how to say this.
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And now I just moved out of your...
(Laughter)
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- (Liza) No holds barred.
- (Sonia) No holds barred.
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(Liza) Maybe you need
a different sentence.
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(Sonia) Forget it. I won't say it.
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(Sonia) The reason why I love peppers
is that... it's like chocolate, you know,
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it's very sensual,
but it's very dangerous.
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And these peppers are really dangerous.
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(Laughter)
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When I told my aunt that
I was gonna be making pepper sauce,
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she was like, "Make sure you cover
your face and your hands",
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and it's so true.
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This is no joke.
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You need to be really prepared for this.
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Hi, my name is Sonya and
I'm the owner of Bacchanal Sauce LLC,
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and the maker of Bacchanal Pepper Sauce
here in Brooklyn, New York.
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I'm preparing to get down
and dirty with the peppers.
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First of all, people just get excited
when you say you make pepper sauce.
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(Laughter)
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People get excited
when you talk about peppers,
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when you talk about heat,
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I always love pepper sauce.
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You know, in the Caribbean
everyone makes their own pepper sauce,
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and so, it was me
taking something that I knew
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and kind of taking it to the next level.
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So, we're in the kitchen
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and I'm going to show you a little bit
how we make the bacchanal pepper sauce.
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First of all, we have
a lot of amazing fruits
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and that's what really give it
a lot of flavors.
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The pepper sauce is called bacchanal
because a bacchanal is like a party,
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it's like, you know, you have revelers,
you have people enjoying themselves,
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and when you have the pepper sauce
that's what it feels like you're doing,
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not only you have all these flavors
coming together and it's like a party,
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but also, you know,
when you put it on something
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it really enhances your food,
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and that's what the word
really means to me.
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You're having a party,
you're relaxing, you're chilling out,
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and you're having your pepper sauce!
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♪ (music) ♪
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Now, we're at the fun part,
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we get to blend everything together,
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and it's like a real bacchanal,
it's a party so...
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Everyone gets to go into the blender
and get all mixed up together.
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♪ (music) ♪
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I love to use Scotch Bonnet peppers
and also Habanero peppers,
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and that's because... of course
they are from the same family,
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and they also meld well with
all of these like, very unique fruits.
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(Liza) You grew up on this.
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(Sonia) Yeah, I mean, well,
I grew up on pepper. (Laughter)
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I grew up on pepper, I grew up on heat,
that's something I'm very familiar with,
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it's so funny, because when I started
making my pepper sauce,
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I went out and got a lot of hot sauces.
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And I just tried a lot, and...
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I was like, absolutely amazed
because I really felt like,
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maybe there would have been
something a little bit like it out there,
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or something at least,
you know, very flavorful,
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and I find that so many hot sauces
that I tried were either full of mustard
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or they just weren't even hot!
(Laughter)
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♪ (music) ♪
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So, when it comes to the spices,
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I made the sauce, you know, several times,
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but I thought it needed
a different type of heat
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so I decided to add the cayenne,
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and then, the all spices, cinnamon,
very traditional Caribbean spices,
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and so they all
really blend well together...
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nothing sort of stands out, you know,
it's just a a very nice blend.
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(Liza) You're not out to kill people.
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(Sonia) No, I'm not out to kill people...
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I'm not out to kill people with heat,
however, it is hot.
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It's fun, it's lots of fun!
(Laughter)
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I'm being a little careful here
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because you can already feel
the fumes coming out from the peppers.
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♪ (music) ♪
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(Sonia) Yeah, baby!
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♪ (music) ♪
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(Sonia) Yeah, baby!
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(Sonia) The type of food that people
can put this on...
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You can really put it on anything,
I'd say be creative,
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I'm about being creative in the kitchen
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and I think that when you have
any type of condiment,
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be creative with it!
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Because you can really excite yourself,
and excite your friends and families
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when you start to really be
creative with your food.
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But I think that it is amazing
on chicken wings;
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I think it's amazing on corn,
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I love it on sandwiches...
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you can put it on
just grilled vegetables...
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I just think it pairs well
with a lot of different things,
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so I'd say, go for it!
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♪ (music) ♪
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(Sonia) I'm just looking to be able
to taste all of the flavors...
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I'm looking to be able to taste
a little bit of tartness, of sweetness,
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and then, the heat.
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Here it goes!
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Yeah, baby!
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Oh my God...
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You get that heat at the back,
the heat at the front,
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and you get the sweetness.
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So good.
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- (Liza) Does it hit you right away?
- (Sonia) Hits you right away.
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(Liza) You almost couldn't take that!
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(Sonia) I couldn't, yeah!
(Laughter)
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(Sonia) When people eat it, I just imagine
they're enjoying themselves,
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I imagine... I love food!
(Laughter)
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And I love eating something
and feeling like I'm trying to pour it,
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and that's what I really want for people
when they have the pepper sauce.
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♪ (music) ♪
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Yeah, baby!
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You get the heat,
you get the heat right here...
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It's just good! (Laughter)
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(Sonia) It's fun work, it's good work,
it's work that I love.
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(Liza) You're proud of it.
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(Sonia) Yeah, and I'm very proud of it,
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I'm very proud when people taste it,
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I'm very proud to show it off,
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I'm proud to be a pepper sauce maker.
(Laughter)
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♪ (music) ♪
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Can you tell I'm all about flavors?
(Laughter)
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♪ (music) ♪
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(Sonia) My favorite reaction
is when people love pepper
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and they eat it and they are,
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"Hmmm... yeah, this is good!"
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and you know, those are the people
that are the real pepper heads,
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the people that, you know, love pepper,
it can even be hotter for them,
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I love those people!
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When those people come up to me
when they taste the pepper sauce,
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I'm like, yeah, you're man,
you're woman to my own heart, you know,
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because they get so excited about it
and I love... I love those people!
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But I also love the timid people too,
-
I also love the people, who are like,
"Just give me a little drop".
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(Laughter)
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♪ (outro music) ♪
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English subtitles by
Jenny Lam- Chowdhury