/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>11321966
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From what I read Marie Sharp was a simple farmer from Belize, her farm was called Melinda Estates. Her sister said some doctor was looking for peppers, so she planted a shit ton of habaneros, but the guy couldn't sell those. So she took all of these peppers back home and was pretty much like "what the fuck am I going to do with all of these fucking peppers?" Even though her and her husband had a farm, she had a full time job. So she just started fucking around with the peppers in her kitchen and making her own sauces using all sorts of different shit. Apparently drums upon drums of mashed peppers mixed with all sorts of ingredients. She was just giving it away to friends and family. Well apparently one of her friends really liked the one that she made with carrots and suggested that she market it.

Well, she began selling her sauces, but some weird shit happened and her American distributor trademarked the name Melinda's. She was unwise to international trade law and fucked her. So they tried to cut her out because they thought they had her full recipe and began getting pepper mash from Costa Rica instead of her, but theirs is a lower quality.

So instead of taking it to court (she couldn't afford it), she created a new company with her own name, Marie Sharp's. She is completely blown away at the popularity of her hot sauce.

So pretty much Melinda's is a stolen corporate ripoff of Marie Sharp's, and that's why they taste similar. She's just a kind old lady from Belize trying to sell some hot sauce. And it's fucking damn good.