Bottle of Tabasco Sauce
The display reads:
Old Bottles & Cartons
The iconic Tabasco (TM) brand pepper sauce bottle and diamond label design have changed little since E. McIlhenny mixed his first batch of pepper sauce. He bottled this sauce for friends and family in discarded, long-necked cologne bottles, the only bottles readily available in the post-Civil-War South.
As 'that famous sauce that Mr. McIlhenny makes' increased in popularity, E. McIlhenny decided to continue using this bottle style commercially because it was well-suited for sprinkling the concentrated pepper sauce. Its uncommon shape helped make Tabasco sauce instantly recognizable. Edmund used corks to stop the bottles and sealed the top with green wax to contrast with the sauce's color. Each bottle came with a metal sprinkler fitment to ensure that the sauce was dispensed in small drops.
The diamond label has adorned bottles of Tabasco sauce since the first commercial batch in 1868.
With only minor modifications in the package design over the last 138 years, Tabasco fans still find their favorite pepper sauce by looking for the classic bottle with the familiar white, red and green diamond label.
For more information:
Taken November 12th, 2010.
Bottle of Tabasco Sauce
The display reads:
Old Bottles & Cartons
The iconic Tabasco (TM) brand pepper sauce bottle and diamond label design have changed little since E. McIlhenny mixed his first batch of pepper sauce. He bottled this sauce for friends and family in discarded, long-necked cologne bottles, the only bottles readily available in the post-Civil-War South.
As 'that famous sauce that Mr. McIlhenny makes' increased in popularity, E. McIlhenny decided to continue using this bottle style commercially because it was well-suited for sprinkling the concentrated pepper sauce. Its uncommon shape helped make Tabasco sauce instantly recognizable. Edmund used corks to stop the bottles and sealed the top with green wax to contrast with the sauce's color. Each bottle came with a metal sprinkler fitment to ensure that the sauce was dispensed in small drops.
The diamond label has adorned bottles of Tabasco sauce since the first commercial batch in 1868.
With only minor modifications in the package design over the last 138 years, Tabasco fans still find their favorite pepper sauce by looking for the classic bottle with the familiar white, red and green diamond label.
For more information:
Taken November 12th, 2010.