A Brief, Mildly Embarrassing Discussion About Hot Sauce With Fred Smoot

Not too long ago, I did a favor for a guy over at the Try My Nuts nut company, which is -- as you can probably guess from the name -- the type of company that makes amusingly named hot sauces and spicy peanuts. (Really good spicy peanuts, I might add.) Today, I received a package of stuff from the company as a way of saying thank you, a generous and completely unnecessary gesture.Good stuff, too: peanut brittle and those spicy peanuts and all sorts of other things. And, of course, a few bottles of hot sauce, each individually wrapped in bubble wrap.Fred Smoot happened to be walking by as I was emptying the box out; I know Smoot likes hot sauce, so I called him over to see what we had. "I did a deal with Texas Pete," Smoot said, "so I've got all the hot sauce I need for the rest of my life. Still, I'll see what you've got."So it was a little awkward when the first bottle was of conVICKt Hot Sauce, the label of which features a cartoon bulldog urinating...