This story shows some incarcerated common sense. Inmates at the Hillsborough County Jail in Brandon, Florida have spent two years perfecting recipes for three flavors of hot sauce. They grew the peppers themselves as part of a horticulture program, and then produced a commercial sauce. There’s “Smoke,” “Original,” and “No Escape,” with the latter being the hottest.
The revenue goes back into the program for the inmates, and the sauce can only be purchased online (through a mail-in form).
It’s a great idea with a killer marketing hook (forgive the pun). If you’re going to be behind bars with a lot of time on your hands, you might as well do something productive. Better to learn a craft and create a product to whittle away the time. Will jailhouse salsa or maximum security spaghetti sauce be far behind?
Rock on, jailhouse!
[via boingboing.net]
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