No. 1Card 1/3 · mild-ish
Verde Tranquilo
A firm handshake.
Bright, green, polite. Shows up on time, compliments your eggs, leaves before it gets weird.
Picante2/10
Scoville2,000 SHU-ish
$11148 MLAdd to pedido
VOLCÁN CHICO
small volcano, big opinions
Small-batch salsa picante, fermented for ninety patient days in a converted bus garage and bottled by two cousins who agree on nothing except this.
Section 02 · collect all three
PICK YOUR PROBLEMA
Three sauces. Collect them all, regret them individually.
No. 2Card 2/3 · ojo
Mango Disturbio
A small civil disturbance.
Starts as fruit salad, ends as a town meeting. Sweet for exactly four seconds, then the habanero takes the microphone.
Picante6/10
Scoville45,000 SHU-ish
$11148 MLAdd to pedido
No. 3Card 3/3 · ay dios
La Erupción
Call someone first.
Smoke, then pineapple, then a long quiet moment where you reconsider your choices. Use a toothpick. We mean it.
Picante10/10
Scoville400,000 SHU-ish
$13148 MLAdd to pedido
Section 03 · the heat machine
HOW HOT IS HOT?
← Drag the chile · or use arrow keys →Past 7 is between you and your tía
Section 04 · serving suggestions, loosely
PUT IT ON
Everything, eventually. But start here. Tap one to sauce it.
Section 05 · la historia
DOS PRIMOS, UN GARAGE
San Lázaro del Humo is a town of nine hundred people, four hills and one very small volcano that has not erupted since 1911 but still likes to clear its throat.
When the bus company left, Itzel took the garage. Beto took the credit. She ferments: ninety days in clay, no shortcuts, a radio tuned to boleros because she swears the chiles can tell.
He tastes, names things, and once hiccupped for two days after “quality control” on batch nine.
We make 312 bottles at a time because that is how many fit on the shelf where Bus 14 used to sleep. No investors. No heat journey. No QR code. Just salsa.
— Itzel y Beto, primos
Hola, soyItzelFerments. Is right about everything. Insufferable about it.
Hola, soyBetoTastes. Names things. Has the hiccups again.
Section 06 · el pedido
¿LISTO?
Fill in the pad. Itzel packs on Thursdays; Beto writes your name on the box and draws a small volcano whether you asked or not.
- Ships in a box that smells faintly of smoke.
- Keeps six months. Lasts two weeks.
- This is a pretend shop. The trouble is purely emotional.