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| Staying about 21 Miles Away at a Enjoy America Campground near Avery Island La. is the Tabasco Factory tour. When you get to Avery Island there is a one dollar Toll! The fellow in the Tool Booth uses a broom stick to take your dollar. Due to the heat we did not do the Jungle Gardens. This Sign is outside the Door where the tour starts. This has been on the bucket list since we started full timing back in 1995. |
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| During the tour you learn a lot of the making of the Products in the Tabasco family! There are a few interactive spots you can test your pepper knowledge! The young lady that gave the tour was born there with a neat accent! I would suggest never have been here to do so! |
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| A Protected pepper plant! The peppers are picked by the red color. Pepper pickers use a colored red stick to match the perfect pepper. Pickers live on the island and are paid by the pound for picking. They get low cost housing and are treated like family. Peppers are only around an inch by around three eights on an inch Dia. Green then Yellow then red as they mature. The real Peppers are grown else ware in the tropics. Avery Island Mc Ilhenny seeds are shipped there. |
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| The Oak barrel to the left comes from places like Jack Daniel's distillery and are used to store the Avery Island salted crushed pepper mash for three years. Nothing is wasted. Avery Island has the largest salt mine in America. The Cargel plant loads salt on to a barge's for export! The pepper mash is sent to plants that make it into things like tooth paste,Soap, and Byproducts! The old used oak barrels are broken up and sold a wood Chip's for BB Q'S Being at one time in the generator Biz. I was amazed on the number on Larger Onan Generators on site. The make over 750,000 bottles a day of various sizes! |
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| After the Tour you go to the Tabasco Country Store! Drained my wallet here! You can get a small lunch here also. The young lady's in the store have free samples and Tabasco Flavored Ice Cream. I'm blessed to have made it here. BTW The jobs here are strong. We saw several Help Wanted sign's on the road here. Haliburton the service to the federal government has a place here and employs many folks along with the strong Oil and Gas Industry. We each had Poor Boy's for lunch nearby and all I can say if your here like us for a day its a must do! Poor Boy's are like a Sub on soft french Bread! You can have the made up any way! Bea had Fish and I had Smoked Sausage Poor Boy! Go to Tabasco.com for more Info. You can order a free Catalog there. Always stop at visitor centers as you gain lots of Knowledge and Eatery's in the area! |
