History[edit]

Humans have used chili peppers and other hot spices for thousands of years. Inhabitants
of Mexico, Central America and South America had chili peppers more than 6,000 years ago.
Within decades of contact with Spain and Portugal in the 16th century, the American plant
was carried across Europe and into Africa and Asia, and altered through selective breeding.
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 One of the first commercially available bottled hot sauces in America appeared in 1807
in Massachusetts.[2] Few of the early brands from the 1800s survived to this day,
however. Tabasco sauce is the earliest recognizable brand in the United States hot sauce
industry, appearing in 1868. As of 2010, it was the 13th best-selling seasoning in the United
States[3] preceded by Frank's RedHot Sauce in 12th place, which was the sauce first used to
create buffalo wings.[4]