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04/12/2012
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How Wisbech firm became the innocent victim of scam involving Jamaican Pickapeppa hot sauce

WISBECH became the centre for a scam involving a Jamaican hot sauce, a court was told.Bosses at London based Wanis hired Eastern Country Foods in Smeeth Road, Marshland St James, to manufacture a speciality but fake sauce after it had lost the contract to import the original.

What bosses at Eastern didn’t know was that Wanis had devised its own recipe, created thousands of fake labels and over a 16-month period produced 30,000 counterfeit bottles of Pickapeppa sauce which it carried on selling into major supermarkets.

The scam only came to light when a shopper who bought the sauce from Asda complained that the sauce tasted sweeter than she was used to and she complained to Pickapeppa in Jamaica.

Brent and Harrow Trading Standards began a probe and the fake sauce trail led officers to the Leyton HQ of Wanis.

Three days into the trial at Harrow Crown Court Wanis bosses Sanjay Wadhwani, 45, and Vickas Shah, 34, changed their pleas and admitted breaking trademark laws. Each was given a community work sentence.

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04/12/2012
by Peppers and More
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Burger King Used 2,548 Packets Of Hot Sauce To Make This Billboard

In a word: awesome.

The street art, by Young & Rubicam Istanbul, combines used and full packets to create a pixelated image of what happens to a man’s face when he tries said hot sauce.

This billboard certainly beats Burger King’s recent U.S. commercial, created by Mother NY. which featured Mary J. Blige rhapsodizing about fried chicken.

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04/08/2012
by Alan Bowman
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Famous Dave’s Devil’s Spit BBQ Sauce

 

Famous Dave Anderson is an icon in the worlds of barbecue and business. He operates southern-style bbq restaurants in 37 states that have garnered over 500 various awards since opening in 1994. One of the claims to fame at his eateries is the bbq sauce which won the prestigious award for “Best Sauce on the Planet” at The American Royal in 1995. Dave knows barbecue sauce! But when I saw this bottle of Famous Dave’s Devil’s Spit at my local supermarket, I wondered if Dave knew his HOT barbecue sauce.

 
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