"Tabasco is an American brand of hot sauce made from tabasco peppers, vinegar and salt. It is produced by McIlhenny Company of Avery Island in south Louisiana, having been created over 150 years ago by Edmund McIlhenny. Although tabasco peppers were initially grown only on Avery Island, they are now primarily cultivated in Central America, South America and Africa. The Tabasco sauce brand also has multiple varieties including the original red sauce, habanero, chipotle, sriracha and Trinidad Moruga scorpion. Tabasco products are sold in more than 195 countries and territories, and packaged in 36 languages and dialects.

"According to the company's official history, Tabasco was first produced in 1868 by Edmund McIlhenny, a Maryland-born former banker who moved to Louisiana around 1840. However, as Jeffrey Rothfeder's book McIlhenny's Gold points out, some of the McIlhenny Company's official history is disputed, and the politician Maunsel White was producing a tabasco pepper sauce two decades before McIlhenny.

"McIlhenny Company produces Tabasco brand products that contain pepper seasoning, including popcorn, nuts, olives, mayonnaise, mustard, steak sauce, Worcestershire sauce, soy sauce, teriyaki sauce, marinating sauce, barbecue sauce, chili sauce, pepper jelly, and Bloody Mary mix. McIlhenny Company also permits other brands to use and advertise Tabasco sauce as an ingredient in their products (a common marketing practice called "co-branding"), including Spam, Hormel chili, Slim Jim beef sticks, Heinz ketchup, A1 steak sauce, Plochman's mustard, Lawry's salt, Zapp's potato chips, Heluva Good dip, and Vlasic Pickles."  (Wikipedia)

"ABASCO® Brand products are made by McIlhenny Company, founded by Edmund McIlhenny in 1868 on Avery Island, Louisiana. It was here that he developed the recipe for TABASCO® Original Red Pepper Sauce that's been passed down from generation to generation. To this day, the company is still family-owned and -operated on that very same island," the official website says.

"The diet of the Reconstruction South was bland and monotonous, especially by Louisiana standards. So Edmund McIlhenny decided to create a pepper sauce to give the food some flavor and excitement.

"A food lover and avid gardener, Edmund McIlhenny was given seeds of Capsicum frutescens peppers that had come from Mexico or Central America. On Avery Island in South Louisiana, he sowed the seeds, nurtured the plants and delighted in the spicy flavor of the peppers they bore. Many years later field hands used a little red stick, or 'le petit bâton rouge,' to measure the ripeness of the peppers. Staying true to history of TABASCO® Brand, we still use it today to ensure the quality of our harvest.

"Labeled in 36 different languages and dialects, sold in over 195 countries and territories, added to soldiers’ rations and put on restaurant tables around the globe, it is the most famous, most preferred pepper sauce in the world."

"Tabasco sauce, spicy condiment, of American origin, made of hot chilies, vinegar, and salt. It is arguably the most famous hot sauce in the world, seasoning not only food items but drinks as well, most famously the concoction of vodka, tomato juice, and Worcestershire sauce known as the Bloody Mary," the Britannica says.

"Tabasco sauce is both a product of and an essential ingredient in the Cajun and Creole cuisines of Louisiana and has become a favourite condiment of diners the world over. Its basis is the tabasco pepper (Capsicum frutescens, variety tabasco), a small hot red chili grown along the Gulf of Mexico and named for the Mexican state of Tabasco. The chili is thought to have been introduced to Louisiana by U.S. soldiers returning from the Mexican-American War (1846–48), and it was likely first documented in Louisiana in 1849, in a New Orleans newspaper, which described it as “a new species…called Tobasco [sic] red pepper.

"Tabasco sauce remains a staple condiment around the world, labeled in more than 35 languages and dialects. It is especially popular in Japan, which is the largest market for the sauce after the United States. Besides its flagship red chili sauce, McIlhenny Company now produces a variety of other chili sauces, from mild to very hot, under the Tabasco brand name."

"Tabasco is probably the world’s most recognisable hot sauce, available in over 195 countries and sells a staggering 700,000 bottles every day. Fun fact one: The left over peppers are sold to pharmaceutical companies which they use to produce pepper spray," the Sauce Man says.

"Apparently Queen Victoria was a huge fan and the bottle bears the royal crest. Legend has it that she ran out during the nadir of World War 2, she ran out and sent out one of her lackeys to scour the street of London. He came back empty handed. Apparently she took the bad news ‘philosophically’. Her disappointment meant that Tabasco wasn’t awarded the Royal Warrant until 2009.

It’s unusual that a company with such a long and esteemed history of hot sauce make a product that is so utterly dire. Astringent, vinegary, watery and super spicy, it has almost no redeeming features except for the cute label bearing the presidential seal. Fun fact 2: the US, Australian, British and issue miniature bottles in their ration packs. I’m not sure how it would help moral. Unless you were trying to poison your enemies with it."

"Tabasco sauce is a staple in many American kitchens. It’s so popular in fact that the brand name “Tabasco” is just another word for “hot sauce” in a lot of places. The name for the sauce stems from the peppers it’s made with, tabasco peppers, which originated in Mexico. The man behind the iconic hot sauce – which was the very first hot sauce, by the way – is Edmund McIlhenny, an American businessman and manufacturer that got his start in banking," The Van Trump Report says.

"Tabasco’s iconic bottles have a really odd history for a food company! According to Paul McIlhenny, the sixth McIlhenny to run the company, the legend behind the bottle is that Edmund initially used old cologne bottles to package his Tabasco sauce. The sprinkler would allow something to be dispensed by the drop or the dash rather than poured on, which he felt was more practical for the highly concentrated sauce. While they no longer use cologne bottles, the bottles used today still possess that same technology.

"One-eighth-ounce bottles of Tabasco, bearing the presidential seal, are served on Air Force One. During the Vietnam War, Brigadier General Walter S. McIlhenny issued The Charlie Ration Cookbook that came wrapped around a wo-ounce bottle of Tabasco sauce in a camouflaged, water-resistant container. The US military has included Tabasco sauce in Meals, Ready-to-Eat (MREs) since the 1980s. The Australian, British, and Canadian armies also issue small bottles of Tabasco sauce in their rations. McIlhenny is one of just a few U.S. companies to have received a royal warrant of appointment that certifies the company as a supplier to Queen Elizabeth II."

11 Things You Didn't Know About Tabasco, the World's Most Famous Hot Sauce

"Tabasco is used and distributed in more countries than McDonald's. You'll find it in over 195 countries and territories worldwide, while the Golden Arches are only found in a respectable 120. The famous red pepper sauce comes in labels covering 25 different languages. Turns out, the world's most famous sauce has more going on than just delicious flavor and an eye-watering, sinus-clearing heat level," the Southern Living Magazine says.

"Make yourself a diluted spray using Tabasco to keep plants free from munchy insects. Come Halloween, use it to help preserve your pumpkins from pumpkin-eating pests. We've even heard of folks coating their sprinklers with the pepper sauce to keep critters from chewing.

" This famous heirloom seed was first introduced to Louisiana in the early 1800s and became the main ingredient in Tabasco Pepper Sauce. It's been a long-told story that the McIlhenny Company picks the best seeds from the year's crop to store for the next year. How they see it? One should never put all your eggs—er, seeds—in one basket! After splitting the seeds into two halves, half are housed in an undisclosed location and the other half are kept in a locked vault on Avery Island."

"Some people have been hip to the hot sauce fad for a little longer than others. Paul McIlhenny, for example, remembers his grandfather, John McIlhenny, putting drops of Tabasco Sauce into Coca Cola. That's not surprising, actually, since McIlhenny's grandfather's father, Edmund McIlhenny, invented Tabasco, the world's best-known hot sauce," the CBS News reports.

"The sauce has become an American icon, one of the most recognized brands in the world. The McIlhenny Company, still a privately-held, family-run operation, makes two million gallons of its distinctive pepper-and-vinegar blend every year. The McIlhennys still use the same recipe, and still make Tabasco in the same place, on Avery Island in South Louisiana.

" "It's seen as the grand old man of hot sauces," says Dave Dewitt, author of 24 books about chiles, and a patriarchal figure to many chileheads. "It's still treated with respect." And Tabasco is changing with the times. The company has come out with a range of new sauces, including a new habanero sauce that is hotter and fruitier than its classic blend."

"Around 1866 McIlhenny experimented with making a hot sauce from these peppers, hitting upon a formula that called for crushing the reddest, ripest peppers, stirring in Avery Island salt, and aging the concoction he then added French white wine vinegar, hand-stirring it regularly to blend the flavors. After straining, he transferred the sauce to small cologne-type bottles, which he corked and sealed in green wax," the Explore Louisiana says.

"That Famous Sauce Mr. McIlhenny Makes" proved so popular with family and friends that McIlhenny decided to market it, growing his first commercial crop in 1868. The next year he sent out 658 bottles of sauce at one dollar per bottle wholesale to grocers around the Gulf Coast, particularly in New Orleans. The public responded positively and soon McIlhenny had introduced Tabasco sauce to consumers in major markets across the United States. By the end of the 1870s McIlhenny was exporting Tabasco sauce to Europe. So began the fiery condiment that is now a global cultural and culinary icon.

Today, Avery Island remains the home of the Tabasco Factory, as well as Jungle Gardens and its Bird City waterfowl refuge. The Tabasco factory and the gardens are open to the public."

"“My family and all of us at McIlhenny Company are truly humbled by the love we’ve seen for TABASCO® Sauce that has brought us to this incredible anniversary,” said Anthony A. Simmons, president & CEO of McIlhenny Company and fifth-generation McIlhenny family member. “I don’t know if my great-great-grandfather ever dreamed that his backyard start-up would have given rise to an entirely new food category. One hundred and fifty years later, I’m certain he’d be pleased to have brought so much great tasting food to so many people in so many places all around the world. It’s exciting to imagine where TABASCO® Sauce will go and how it will be used over the next 150 years,” an official Press Release says.

"For those eager to celebrate at home, TABASCO® Brand has invited chef and bartender friends from around the world to spotlight classic dishes and drinks that have made the sauce an icon, as well as popular, and sometimes surprising, foods that continue to make TABASCO® Sauce indispensable today. Recipes will be released throughout the year on TABASCO.com and on TABASCO® Brand social channels alongside snapshots of the rich and storied role that this pepper sauce has played in the history of food, American and global culture.

"McIlhenny Company produces TABASCO® Brand products, which are sold in more than 185 countries and territories around the world and labeled in 22 languages and dialects. The 150-year-old company makes a line of pepper sauces, including its world-famous TABASCO® Brand Original Red Sauce, Green Jalapeño Sauce, Chipotle Sauce, SWEET & Spicy Sauce, Habanero Sauce, Garlic Pepper Sauce, Buffalo Style Hot Sauce, and Sriracha Sauce."