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Award Winning Sauce!!!

FM Former Member
hello all...i don't usually post much here but i had to do a little pat on the back for myself...some of you know that i started Eight Flags Sauce Co. back in March of 2005 because the demand and legalities of making my sauce (Pirate's Gold} got to be too big for me...so i went legal and established my company and found a reasonable co-packer to bottle my sauce...things have been going very well for me so far....i recently entered the 10th Anniversary Fiery Foods Challenge sponsored by Chile Pepper Magazine that is held in Ft. Worth, Texas and here are the results:

Eight Flags Sauce Co.
garners 1st Place in Chile Pepper Magazine's
10th Anniversary Fiery Food Challenge

Ft. Worth, TX.--Pirate's Gold took home the coveted 1st Place (Golden Chile) Award during the 10th Anniversary Fiery Food Challenge on September 9 in Fort Worth, Texas in the barbeque sauce (mustard base) category.

The Fiery Food Challenge is the most recognized, most prestigious compettition of zesty products. With 79 categories, the competition was stiff. To find the best zest, culinary expert judges sampled every product through a series of blind tastings.

"This competition is the industry benchmark for superior bold, spicy and flavorful products," says LaDonna Thorne, director, Fiery Food Challenge. "Winning an award in the Fiery Food Challenge is indeed a prestigious honor."

The competition is sponsored by Chile Pepper magazine which produces the annual ZestFest food festival.

ABOUT CHILE PEPPER MAGAZINE
Chile Pepper magazine, founded as a spicy food lover's journal in 1987, has grown to be the national authority on the zesty lifestyle. Published six times per year, each issue contains the latest on flavorful products, restaurants, recipes, events and celebrity chefs. Each fall, Chile Pepper holds its annual Fiery Food Challenge, which has been nationally televised on the Food Network, and ZestFest in Fort Worth, Texas, that attracts crowds of more than 10,000.

and all this came about from buying a small cookshack smoker about 3 1/2 years ago in jacksonville at a bbq trade show...started cooking Q for the guys at work and they said bring the sauce because the Q was awesome(usually pulled pork but some chopped chicken too.)so i started experimenting with different recipes and about three months later i thought i had it down with a simple but tasty mustard base sauce...i am now ordering my third 75 gallon batch and am set to go with my first ketchup based semi-sweet sauce batch that will be called Jolly Roger Red.Things are really starting to move and some advice would be nice...
First...i am about half way done with a web site...and not progressing very well with the rest of it...the domain name has been purchased and it is with GoDaddy.com...any web designers out there???
Second...i have purchased bar codes for two products and will use them on my sauces...i didn't do this at first because i did not think this would go as fast as it has...anybody in marketing with some advice at getting regional???
I am sure they are other questions that i will ask but now i have to go take 3 butts off the smoker...Winn-Dixie had a great buy at only .79 cents per pound last week and the demand has been high...
contact info
beachpiratefla@hotmail.com
Eight Flags Sauce Co.
1-904-583-1261
1-904-261-4631
resale and wholesale distributors welcome

The sauce will be featured in the Winner's Circle of the Jan-Feb issue of Chile Pepper.
Thanks for any and all replies...i am e-mailing smokin...to maybe post some pics of my marketing label...
and sorry for the long post...dave
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FM Former Member
Congrats. Usually some great competition in that event so you done good.

And to go full circle, I helped organize that event at Jacksonville years ago, just to help new people find new products, so it's fun to read ...the rest of the story.

I just sent the photo info back to you to post.

Russ
FM Former Member
Must be those fair ocean breezes coming onto Amelia Island to help make you a success. Great name and great accloades. Congratulations, you are doing something others can only dream of.

If you want to do a website, there are a ton of hosting companies (Godaddy is fine). If you just want to implement a Paypal shopping cart it is real easy to do as there is no real costs. Simpler design is better, stay away from flash, splash screens, silly animated GIF images as they just delay the prospective customer from getting to what they are wanting. Remember the internet is the new Yellow Pages. Essentially with more information capability you really just want to have the data needed (company name and contact information, items available to buy, ordering instructions, etc.)

Congratulations!

Preston
FM Former Member
LJ...it can be purchased from myself and i will mail it to you as i am trying to get it out to the public or you can find it at these stores in fernandina...
geralds fruit stand on south 14th street...best price
old south yankee store on south 8th street
smugglers cove on center street
at home amelia on sadler road
halls beach store on sadler road
five points pantry on south 8th street
atlantic bait and seafood on beech street
kelley pest control on lime street...ask for karen

are you aware of a food store in the lake city area that goes by the name of S&S grocery?
thanks....dave
FM Former Member
thanks coffee....
we were up your way a couple of months ago for the pirate fest on tybee island...it being the first year there wasn't much there but there is a good chance i might go as a vendor next year...also i did the local farmers market here and sold 4 1/2 cases in a 4 hours with it being a one time freebie(no spce rental)...had a couple from tampa tell me to come to the weekend markets that they have in Ybor city...they said the sauce would be a hit there because of their pirate history,,,Gasparilla and the tampa bay bucs...
thanks again....dave
FM Former Member
beachpirate,
when they have the parade at Easter time in St. Augustine, there is always a float for the shrimp festival from Fernandina with pirates shooting off cannons. Goes right down the street from us. Scares the dogs! But I think that would be a great place for you to scatter a bunch of your sauce! Jack and I could stand along the street with our pork. Maybe you can ride on the float! I agree with Jack, I'd like to hear more about your farmers' market.
Peggy
FM Former Member
hi jack and peggy,
try this link
www.fernandinafarmersmarket.com
actually i have just joined that same pirate club back in july....can't be a pirate per se until one year of swabbie participation...i might just be on that float or walking along side it this coming year...yes and i think it is a great thing if i can market my sauce that way....especially during the shrimp festival up here in may and maybe the gasparilla celebration they have in tampa in march...dave
FM Former Member
dave, paypal is quick and easy. just go to paypal.com and get it. only takes 5 minutes. the fee is 2.9% per transaction to .30 cent thats about as low as regular credit card machines. plus, you can add shipping and handling charges to offset your costs.
all you need is bank routing number, which is located on the bottom of your checks.

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