Tamara: Ralph and I were eating lunch in Toledo Town Louisiana yesterday. Ralph has this thing he does with condiments. He pours some Tabasco on a spoon, salts it, eats it, then pours steak sauce on a spoon, and eats it. As we wait for our order, he takes several spoonfuls of each one... he eats condiments. To me it is the strangest thing about the man...I admit the strangest thing could be much worse!
It lead to a discussion though about our "Fire Ranch" sauce. We currently have a salad dressing or dipping sauce available that is a spicy ranch. Its an awesome blend of hot, vinegar and the coolness of ranch. We decided that we didn't promote it enough that we needed to encourage more people to try it. That lead to deciding that the heat we use in Fire Ranch is a totally different flavor than Tabasco... and we wondered what Tabasco would be like with our homemade ranch.
We had to come back to Zippys and try it. Ranch and Tabasco sauce topped with... hmmm... what to top it with. We tried pepperoni and gave the customers in the store a taste. It was agreed that the pepperoni wasn't very "cowboyish." It was good, but it was too much like a plain pepperoni pizza. The next pizza we tried was beef, bacon, onion and green pepper but we didn't have the Tabasco ranch right, we couldn't taste either.... so... another pizza... this one was perfect. It was the flavor of ranch, the flavor of Tabasco without the sending you into a sweat, its a good burn, slow and mostly comes in the after burn, fresh ground beef with the saltiness of bacon a little bite of onion and the sweetness of peppers. It was perfect.... the Cowboy Pizza was born, our new pizza of the week!
Ralph: OK, here's my take on this deal. The Cowboy....just the name evokes adventure, romance, a lil spice and a whole lot of good things! I think blending Tabasco with Ranch dressing was, frankly, one of the bravest things we've done recently. It tastes GREAT and it kicks a little bit too.
About the whole 'eating condiments' thing, well, if that's the worst thing Tamara can think of that I do that's weird then that isn't too bad.
It lead to a discussion though about our "Fire Ranch" sauce. We currently have a salad dressing or dipping sauce available that is a spicy ranch. Its an awesome blend of hot, vinegar and the coolness of ranch. We decided that we didn't promote it enough that we needed to encourage more people to try it. That lead to deciding that the heat we use in Fire Ranch is a totally different flavor than Tabasco... and we wondered what Tabasco would be like with our homemade ranch.
We had to come back to Zippys and try it. Ranch and Tabasco sauce topped with... hmmm... what to top it with. We tried pepperoni and gave the customers in the store a taste. It was agreed that the pepperoni wasn't very "cowboyish." It was good, but it was too much like a plain pepperoni pizza. The next pizza we tried was beef, bacon, onion and green pepper but we didn't have the Tabasco ranch right, we couldn't taste either.... so... another pizza... this one was perfect. It was the flavor of ranch, the flavor of Tabasco without the sending you into a sweat, its a good burn, slow and mostly comes in the after burn, fresh ground beef with the saltiness of bacon a little bite of onion and the sweetness of peppers. It was perfect.... the Cowboy Pizza was born, our new pizza of the week!
Ralph: OK, here's my take on this deal. The Cowboy....just the name evokes adventure, romance, a lil spice and a whole lot of good things! I think blending Tabasco with Ranch dressing was, frankly, one of the bravest things we've done recently. It tastes GREAT and it kicks a little bit too.
About the whole 'eating condiments' thing, well, if that's the worst thing Tamara can think of that I do that's weird then that isn't too bad.
One of our "Cowboy Pizza" test pizzas
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