Editing Tabasco sauce (section)

==Uses==
McIlhenny Company produces or has produced Tabasco brand products that contain pepper seasoning, including chocolate,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Gyekye |first=Liz |date=March 11, 2013 |title=Tabasco Brand Spicy Dark Chocolate Paint Can unveiled |url=http://www.packagingnews.co.uk/design/new-packs/tabasco-brand-spicy-dark-chocolate-paint-can-unveiled/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130314091752/http://www.packagingnews.co.uk/design/new-packs/tabasco-brand-spicy-dark-chocolate-paint-can-unveiled/ |archive-date=March 14, 2013 |work=Packaging News}}</ref> [[popcorn]], nuts, [[olive]]s, [[mayonnaise]], [[Mustard (condiment)|mustard]], [[steak sauce]], [[Worcestershire sauce]], [[soy sauce]], [[teriyaki sauce]], [[Sriracha]] sauce, marinating sauce, barbecue sauce, chili sauce, [[pepper jelly]], and [[Bloody Mary (cocktail)|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 (food)|Spam]], [[Hormel]] chili, [[Slim Jim (snack food)|Slim Jim]] beef sticks, [[H. J. Heinz Company|Heinz]] ketchup, [[A1 steak sauce]], [[Plochman's]] mustard, [[Lawry's]] salt, [[Zapp's]] potato chips, [[Heluva Good]] dip, and [[Vlasic Pickles]]. [[Cheez-It]] crackers for a long time used McIlhenny's Tabasco Green Pepper Sauce until 2018, when [[Kellogg's]] replaced it with their own hot sauce. The original red Tabasco sauce has a [[shelf life]] of three years when stored in a cool and dry place; other Tabasco flavors have shorter shelf lives.<ref>{{Cite web |date=February 20, 2021 |title=TABASCO® BRAND FOODSERVICE PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS |url=https://www.tabasco.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/86299_Tabasco_FS_Product_Guide.pdf |access-date=February 20, 2021 |website=Tabasco.com}}</ref> Tabasco appeared on the menu of [[NASA]]'s [[Space Shuttle]] program and went into orbit on the Shuttles.<ref name="hothistory" /> It was on [[Skylab]] and on the [[International Space Station]] and is popular with astronauts as a means of countering the blandness of food in space.

===Cookbooks===
During the [[Vietnam War]], Brigadier General [[Walter Stauffer McIlhenny|Walter S. McIlhenny]] issued ''The Charlie Ration Cookbook''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tabasco Cookbook |url=http://www.1stcavmedic.com/tabasco_cookbook.htm |website=www.1stcavmedic.com}}</ref> ([[C-ration|Charlie ration]] or "C-Rats" was the name for the field meal then given to troops.) This cookbook came wrapped around a two-ounce bottle of Tabasco sauce in a [[camouflage]]d, water-resistant container. It instructed troops how to mix C-rations to make such meals as "Combat Canapés" or "Breast of Chicken under Bullets."<ref name="hothistory">{{Cite news |last=Edwards |first=Bob |date=November 29, 2002 |title=Tabasco Hot History |publisher=[[NPR]] |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=861201 |access-date=June 7, 2008}}</ref> Soldiers also requested their families to send them Tabasco sauce in "care packages" from home. During the 1980s, the U.S. military began to include miniature bottles of Tabasco sauce in its [[Meal, Ready-to-Eat|MRE]]s. Eventually, miniature bottles of Tabasco sauce were included in two-thirds of all MRE menus.<ref>{{Cite web |date=April 29, 2015 |title=Tabasco and the war against bland military meals |url=http://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/tabasco-and-war-against-bland-military-meals |access-date=April 1, 2017 |website=National Museum of American History |language=en|author-first1=Caitlin|author-last1=Kearney}}</ref> During the same period, McIlhenny Company issued a new military-oriented cookbook using characters from the comic strip ''[[Beetle Bailey]]''.  Titled ''The Unofficial MRE Cookbook'', it was offered free of charge to U.S. troops.