The only bottles of Bobbie's Boat Sauce at Lucifer's House of Heat were all well past their Best Before date. Which of course hints at their popularity, although their rather unfortunate appearance may have unfairly contributed to this. Nevertheless, despite being over one year past their Best Before date, the salesperson assured me it was safe to consume as it had no eggs and such which might be an issue.
The bottle certainly looks like something you might discover on a boat, but it also looks like something someone illicitly mixed in their secret boat brewery and then pasted on an amateurish label they printed themselves.
Nevertheless, the product is not bad. The "hot" version I would rate as mildly spicy. Notes of anchovy, ginger, and tumeric jumped out at me. Certainly not your typical hot sauce, but also not to be casually used as it brings it's own flavour. So maybe more useful for something that's on its own quite bland, like fish or chicken that has been plainly cooked.
The bottle looks like it's meant to be squeezed to spurt out the sauce, but in fact it is extremely stiff. Fortunately, you can shake the sauce out. It's not so viscous as to be stubborn but not so watery as to spill out too much at a time.
If you are not afraid of something stamped with what looks like two sets of Best Before dates both in 2022, you can pick up a bottle for $4 whereas it's normally priced at $14.
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This was one of my three Mother's Day buys: My mom likes chips and chili, so for Mother's Day I looked around for some hopefully products I was reasonably certain she wouldn't be able to find at a mainstream supermarket like T&T or Superstore. I ended up at Dank Mart for chips-sold-in-other-countries and Lucifer's House of Heat for a couple of hot sauces.
I also found out that novelty costs. A lot.
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