A Cock By Any Other Name…

A lot of people wonder ‘What’s up with the hot sauce names?’

Short answer: my sense of humor hasn’t developed since I turned thirteen, which has been a joy for my wife.

Long Answer: when Greg and I were painting the cart, which I kind of bought on a whim, I, wearing super thin running shorts, leaned against a crotch level piece of metal that had been sitting in the sun for hours, to obvious results. This started a scream, a short dance routine and then a conversation. I knew that I wanted to make a hot sauce as an homage to one of the carts previous owners (R.I.P. MJ) who made a killer hot sauce, but I was unsure about what I was going to name it. With a manly shriek, I knew the name of my first hot sauce. When I looked it up(not a recommended google search), there were surprisingly few instances of burning cock being used, other than some cringe inducing medical advice questions and a song called Burning Cock Theme by a band/dj called DenHaan from 2010, check it out on SoundCloud, it’s not bad actually. If you’ve been to Culebra, you know that the island consists of 4279 chickens, 1256 cats and a couple hundred people and the sound of the rooster is like the low key island anthem. It’s also an

homage to everybody’s favorite hot sauce of the 90’s and early aughts, SriRacha aka Hot Cock Sauce.

Side note: one of the many projects I’ve thought up since being here and would love somebody else to do is a Cocks of Culebra photo book (or calendar) consisting of pictures of the islands roosters in their glory.

All photos by MJ, who also loved taking pictures of cocks, food and Culebra and who used to send me pictures of food and menus from everywhere she travelled.