Torchbearer Sauces bring fear to your palate

When reviewing any type of food product for FANGORIA, one finds relating the product to the horror community to be a difficult task. Let’s face it, anyone can slap a scary label on a jar of pickles and claim it to have horror movie relevance. Torch Bearer sauces, on the other hand, do come very close to making what’s on the outside relevant to what’s on the inside through two new sauces, “Oh My Garlic” and “Zombie Apocalypse”.

Oh My Garlic is a vampire themed garlic sauce that’s for those of us who think eating a raw garlic clove just isn’t enough.  It’s powerful straight garlic flavor is only slightly off set by a subtle hint of lime. I would have preferred a little more tang to it, just like I would have preferred to have not reeked of garlic for the remainder of the day.  Fortunately, if garlic is a vampire deterrent, I was quite safe for a long time to come.

The hottest of the hot, Zombie Apocalypse sauce will make a definite lasting impression on you.  Featuring a blend of bhut jolokia peppers and habanera peppers it may just be more weapon then condiment.   I made the mistake of indulging with straight tongue-to-bottle contact—a rookie move that nearly knocked me to the floor and left me feeling the effects for close to twenty minutes.  For a second taste, I spread the heat over a slice of bread an experience that was only slightly less painful.  With a double dose coursing through my mouth, it did feel as though the heat was impairing my judgment and destroying all my motor and speech functions.  Would this be how the zombie uprising started?

Be warned, neither of these sauces is for anyone who prefers a bland diet.