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Article: Tabasco wins war against bland food rations
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
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- April 9, 2003
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Tabasco wins war against bland food rations
By STEPHANIE SHAPIRO Baltimore Sun
Wednesday, April 9, 2003
Along with goggles and gas masks, U.S. soldiers in Iraq are
carrying another item into battle -- mini-bottles of Tabasco sauce,
packed in their food rations.
The fiery pepper sauce, produced since 1868 by the McIlhenny Co.
on Avery Island in Louisiana, has spiced up military meals for more
than a century.
"One of my distant cousins sent a case of Tabasco to Ulysses S.
Grant when he was president," says Paul McIlhenny, company president.
That still counts, because Grant was a Civil War general, he says.
A great uncle who served with Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders "made
sure he had a bottle ...