A combination of great music and Scotch bonnet peppers is serving up a food sensation around Croydon this summer, as GIANELLA A BASILE discovered
Rum do: DJ mates Jimmy Plates (left) and Ian ‘Chippie’ Anan are getting a buzz from their sauce start-up
Friends Ian Anan and Jimmy Plates were making the long journey home to Croydon during a rail strike three years ago when they had the idea to make a hot sauce.
They wanted to make something that “you can throw on anything and make it taste good”.
Anan, known to his friends as Chippie, is a big fan of Scotch bonnet peppers, and one night after he had taken home a hip flask of rum they hadn’t finished, he tried it with some hot peppers he had in the fridge.
They sold out all their stock within an hour at their first food festival, and Captain Chippie’s hot sauces haven’t looked back since. Continue reading
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