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McIlhenny Company (Tabasco)
Maker of Tabasco sauce; peppers mashed and oak-barrel-aged ~3 years.
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Did you know2021
The Tabasco company's estate, Avery Island, isn't a metaphorical hot spot — it's a literal three-mile-wide dome of rock salt, one of the first salt domes ever mined in the U.S. (1862). Cargill ran a major rock-salt mine (~2.5M tons/year, mostly road/de-icing salt) hundreds of feet directly beneath the pepper fields until structural-safety doubts after a 2021 fatality forced a wind-down (full exit by ~2024). The same Gulf-Coast salt-dome geology is what hosts U.S. chlor-alkali brine feedstock and Strategic Petroleum Reserve storage caverns — so the hot-sauce island is also a strategic industrial-salt body that almost nobody connects to Tabasco. [verify: fatality Dec2020 (2 dead); else confirmed CLUI/Advocate]
The Advocate ↗Capacity2021
Cargill's 2021–2024 withdrawal from the Avery Island mine removed roughly 2.5M tons/year of U.S. rock-salt capacity — heavily weighted to road/de-icing salt — after a worker fatality and questions about the dome's structural integrity. That is a concrete capacity loss in the North American de-icing supply chain that sits, surprisingly, under the same land that grows Tabasco peppers. [verify: Closure, structural-integrity doubts, 2.5M t/yr capacity confirmed; actually two deaths not one]
The Advocate ↗Origin
McIlhenny has made Tabasco on Avery Island since 1868, aging salted pepper mash in oak barrels for ~3 years. But the supply chain quietly globalized: while the company still grows foundation seed on the island to control the capsicum strain, the great majority of production peppers are now contract-grown in Latin America (Colombia and other Central/South American countries) — meaning the "Louisiana hot sauce" rides largely on a Latin-American chili crop. [verify: CBS/60Min: foundation seed on island, peppers contract-grown in Latin America]
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