On a road trip to visit relatives in Florida in November, we stopped at Avery Island, Louisiana for a couple of hours to tour the Tabasco pepper sauce factory. Avery Island is located on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, surrounded by swamp marsh. It's right on top of a major salt dome, and the saltworks on the island were an important reason why the McIlhenny family began producing a pepper sauce there.
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The factory in which Tabasco sauce is made. Behind the factory, earthmoving equipment was working on building higher levees. Storm surge during Hurricane Rita in 2005 came within feet of the factory building. |
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A great sculpture outside the factory. |
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Some of the bottling machinery. You can see a row of Tabasco sauce bottles running through the machines. |
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A sign facing the tour hallway said that the bottles being produced when we were there were being labeled for export to Mexico. |
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Jen, in front of the Tabasco factory. |
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Ken, in front of the Tabasco factory. |
| Last Updated 1 August 2018 |