McLean was born in Jamaica, went to school in the United States and worked in the Ministry and HSBC Bank, among other other places. This is what he had to say about the hot sauce revolution. A hot sauce is too hot when one loses the flavor of the food it is supposed to enhance. A hot sauce is also too hot when the inherent flavor of the condiment takes second place to the death-defying feat your tongue and throat must accomplish in order to survive. I would remind them that, in addition to awakening their latent taste buds, peppers are health boosting agents.
Peppers have healing and anti-biotic qualities.
I do not believe that Buffalo is, as yet, a hot sauce town. On the other hand, I don't think we are really pretending. Rather, I think we have embarked on the journey and we are enjoying the ride. This assessment comes from listening to consumers throughout the region as I have met them at my various points of aisle cooking demos or from written comments I have received. We are a town of awakening taste buds.