Peppers from prison

[kato]

Kato's was just provided with 30 lbs of Scotch Bonnets growen at the Hillborough County Jail over in Tampa all grown by inmates in the holticulture program taught by the smartest pepper grower i know.
These pods are going into the making of Kato's Down South Hot Sauce.

They also make there own sauce with the peppers grown by inmates sauce produced by inmates in the culinary arts program.

Thought that was cool.

Mick
Kato's

[Tina Brooks]

Kato's was just provided with 30 lbs of Scotch Bonnets growen at the Hillborough County Jail over in Tampa all grown by inmates in the holticulture program taught by the smartest pepper grower i know.
These pods are going into the making of Kato's Down South Hot Sauce.

They also make there own sauce with the peppers grown by inmates sauce produced by inmates in the culinary arts program.

Thought that was cool.

Mick
Kato's

Gives new meaning to "hot" peppers. lol How cool is that.

T

[P_Schneider]

Well at least they are keeping busy. You should call the sauce "Kato's Conviction Sauce" :wink:

[DEFCON Creator]

Perhaps they are a special Correctional seed. They grow peppers with files in them.

[Tina Brooks]

lol.

We're so bad.

I'm sure that these innmates have served their time.

Kinda makes you wonder though, after watching the Great Escape... What do these guys dig with... spoons?

Anyone seen the movie Holes?

[hawgboyzbbq]

It must be a prison thing to grow peppers. When I was in the federal prison in Marion, IL., (83-86) we grew peppers every summer. We had tons of them. Some really hot, some not so hot.
We would take a spoonful of peanut butter on a Ritz cracker and then a slice of the hot peppers (leaving veins and seeds in) on top of that and cover with a little Honey.
We called them Prison H'orderves.
I still eat them. They are wonderful!!!!!!
PARTY!!!!!!!!!!!

[chuk hell]

We would take a spoonful of peanut butter on a Ritz cracker and then a slice of the hot peppers (leaving veins and seeds in) on top of that and cover with a little Honey.


That sounds damn good. Chiles go well with peanut butter.

[chuk hell]

Related article:

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/shared-gen/ap/Feature_Stories/Inmate_Hot_Sauce.html

Sounds like they are making some hot sauce of their own in there.






Jail Inmates in Fla. Cook Up Hot Sauces

BRANDON, Fla. — It can be difficult to add a little spice to your life when you're in jail, where everything's the same, day in and day out. But inmates at the Hillsborough County jail are trying.

The inmates had been growing hot peppers as part of a horticulture program at the jail for about a year when one of them made a suggestion to make it into a sauce

Allen Boatman, the horticulture program's director, agreed it would be a good idea, and residents of the Falkenburg Road Jail in Brandon are now the proud makers of Jailhouse Fire hot sauce.

"The food here is kind of institutionalized, so it helps," Boatman said.

Boatman and his students spent two years perfecting the recipe, a hybrid of a Caribbean-style hot sauce and a mustard sauce. They recently produced their first batch, 96 5-ounce bottles that sell for $3.25 each. The revenue goes back to the inmate canteen fund and to culinary and horticulture programs for inmates.

Priority customers like Sheriff David Gee have already bought half of the first batch.

By next year, Boatman hopes to sell Jailhouse Fire to the general public through an Internet-based distributor.

The sauce is made from a mixture of several varieties of herbs and hot peppers, all grown on more than 6 acres behind the jail. Among the peppers are habaneros, scotch bonnets and jalapenos.

Inmates say they prefer their own version of Jailhouse Fire, which is considerably hotter than what they sell for mass consumption.

"It's a macho thing," Boatman said. "You know, `I can eat the hottest pepper.'"