Hot Sauce Gift Packs

Hot sauce has been a major part of man's eating habits since the dawn of time, when Cro-Magnon men looked at their meals of seeds, roots, nuts, and mammoth meat, didn't put hot sauce on them, and then subsequently died off -- replaced by better-looking, cooler humans who did.

Courtesy of T.W. Garner Food No. 23 Best-Selling Condiment: Texas Pete Hot Sauce Total sales: $18,027,340 Total sales: 11,971,440 Avg. price: $1.51 Like Frank's RedHot and Tabasco, Texas Pete Hot Sauce, the third best-selling hot sauce in the U.S., is pretty mild compared with some of the mouthburners on the market these days.

Humans have used chili peppers and other hot spices for thousands of years. One of the first commercially available bottled hot sauces appeared in 1807 in Massachusetts. However, of the early brands in the 1800s, few survive to this day.

We realize that that with such a huge selection of Hot Sauces, Hot Gifts, Collector's Sauces, Fiery Snacks and so much more, that making the right selection can be somewhat overwhelming. So by popular request, Hotsauce.com has created the "Top 50 Best" category for those that need just a little help and some good old fashioned suggestions.