May 15, 2009 Dansk tekst til venstre English text on the right Dagens baghave: Backyard of the Day: Tabasco Plantation, Avery Island, Iberia Parish, Louisiana The Tabasco Plantation is located on Avery Island in Iberia Parish, Louisiana.   Vi overnattede på Walmarts parkeringsplads i nat, efter at have været inde og støve gennem samtlige afdelinger efter myggenet... - Hvad er det nu lige myggenet hører under? Campingudstyr? Sengetøj? Isenkram? Boligudstyr? Skadedyrsbekæmpelse? Det viste sig, at myggenet er gået af mode i civiliserede lande (undtagen i IKEA... Hvor er der så en IKEA, når jeg skal bruge en?) og de havde slet ingen. Men nu er vi jo heldigvis ikke sådan at slå af pinden, så vi fik købt nogle paneler af florlet, gennemsigtigt gardinstof og hængte dem om sengene. Og ih, hvor har vi sovet bedre, nu hvor vi ikke skal forsvare os mod blodsugere hele natten. Det kan anbefales! Efter denne reklamepause vender vi nu tilbage til dagens program.... We boondocked overnight in Walmart's parking lot, after having gone searching through each of their departments for mosquito nets... - What category would that be, now? Camping gear? Bedding? Hardware? Housewares? Pest control? As it turns out mosquito nets have gone out of style in civilized countries (well... except in IKEA... Where is an IKEA, when I really need one?) and they didn't have any, but not to be deterred, we bought some curtains of light, sheer voile and hung those around the beds. And boy did we ever sleep better now that we don't have to defend against blood suckers all night long. It's simply brilliant if we do say so ourselves, and we highly recommend it! And now we return to your regularly scheduled programming....     Vi stod tidligt op, nu når vi var så friske og udhvilede, og tog ned til Avery Island, hvor Tabasco-fabrikken ligger. We got up early, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed as we were, and went to Avery Island where the Tabasco factory is.     Avery Island er egentlig ikke en ø, men en saltholm, en kegle af salt så enorm, at den ville være større end Mount Everest, hvis man kunne vende den om. Oprindelig drev man kun saltminer her, men efter borgerkrigen begyndte Edmund McIlhenny, gift med Mary Eliza Avery, som havde arvet Avery Island, at lave Tabasco, først for familie og venner, og senere, da de så, hvor populært det var, kommercielt. Avery Island is not actually an island, but a salt plug, a cone of salt so enormous, that it would be larger than Mount Everest, if it were somehow inverted. Originally only salt mining took place here, but after the Civil War Edmund McIlhenny, married to Mary Eliza Avery, who had inherited Avery Island, began making Tabasco, first for family and friends, and later, when they saw how popular it was, commercially.

Almindelig Tabasco består udelukkende af Tabasco-peber, salt og eddike. Pebrene kværnes med salt fra Avery Islands egne saltminer den samme dag, som de er plukket, og kommes i tønder forseglet med mere salt, hvorefter de gærer i tre år. Derefter blandes pebermassen med eddike under en konstant omrøring, der tager 28 dage. Til sidst sies sovsen og kommes på flasker. McIlhenny-familien, som stadig ejer firmaet, producerer 700.000 flasker Tabasco om dagen, og de laver dem allesammen lige her. Regular Tabasco consists only of Tabasco peppers, salt, and vinegar. The peppers are ground with salt from Avery Island's own salt mines the same day they are picked, and is put into barrels sealed with more salt to be set aside for fermentation for three years. Then the pepper pulp is mixed with vinegar under a constant stirring that lasts 28 days. Finally the sauce is strained and bottled. The McIlhenny family, which still owns the company, produces 700,000 bottles of Tabasco a day, all of them right here.       Vi fik prøveflasker af forskellige slags Tabascosovs foræret, og der var smagsprøver... Blandt andet rigtig lækker chili, vanilleis med Tabasco, der var bedre end man umiddelbart ville forestille sig, og en Tabasco sodavand, som de for min skyld må beholde selv. Vi købte Tabasco peberfrø fra lige her på Avery Island til mor Ella, som vi ekspederer til Danmark ved lejlighed sammen med nogle af vareprøverne. Det var virkelig spændende altsammen. We received sample bottles of different kinds of Tabasco sauce, and there were other product samples... Among them a delicious chili, Tabasco ice cream, which was better than one would expect, and a Tabasco soda pop that was just really bad. We bought Tabasco pepper seeds from right here at Avery Island for mama Ella, which we'll send off to Denmark when we can, along with some of the sample bottles. It was all very educational and interesting.

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