Twitter users reacted with all the shock and disgust due to such blasphemy, with one typical response being: "This offends me to the point where I may no longer buy your product. While Frank's did try to backtrack a few days later, tweeting a proposal that they sponsor a National Blue Cheese Dressing Day apparently there was no such thing at the time , many members of Team Blue were still unwilling to forgive their egregious use of the "r" word.
Nonetheless, Frank's did succeed in getting Blue Cheese Day recognized. According to WKBW , it shall henceforth be celebrated every July 16 until the world is destroyed by a flood of ranch dressing.
Okay, they didn't put in that last part. In real life, she's a something great-grandma who really isn't all that foul-mouthed. As Jean Hamilton told the Vancouver Sun, she'll unleash the odd cuss word "only in private, and I have to be provoked by something awful happening, like if I dropped a casserole I had just made.
As to how she landed her highest-profile gig as a hot sauce pitch person, she was asked at the age of 86 to audition for a commercial, and thought, "At my age I have nothing to lose if I want to be a bit silly and give it a try! As recently as December of , Hamilton was alive and well and making a generous donation to the North Vancouver City Library via Facebook. Who knows, maybe Frank's is also the secret to longevity! Image credit: Mike Mozart, Flickr.
Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved. Thank you for subscribing! If you have any questions feel free to call us at ZING or email us at vipaccounts benzinga. Contribute Login Join. Market Overview. We then combine them with other ingredients, according to our secret recipe, and go immediately into our cookers. After the sauce is cooked in 4,gallon tanks, it is piped to a finisher, which removes the seeds, then is sent to a cooling system before assembly line dispensers pour them into bottles.
At that time, the company filled and labeled 72, bottles of the hot stuff a day. Bar owner Teressa Bellissimo needed to whip up a late-night snack for her son and his friends, so she deep-fried some chicken wings she used for stock, added a dash of red sauce, then served them with celery and bleu cheese dressing.
The special condiment was not sold to consumers, but Frank did sell Mister Mustard, a Dijon mustard, in stores. He confessed to a deep love of hot sauce and all things spicy. Kurzius turned to the brand's in-your-face advertising slogan to answer.
It's great flavor. It's not just heat.
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