Hot sauce has always been on Randy Fuson’s mind. “When I was a little kid, we had a poster of a hot sauce bottle in the kitchen; my grandfather had given it to my mom. And I used to carry a 2-ounce bottle of Tabasco everywhere. I put it on everything and still do: I put it on eggs, pizza, French fries, burgers, Chinese food – yeah, it’s good. But not cake.”

Fuson has recently created a small business, “Pissed off Peppers,” bottling his own concoctions made from his own organic peppers.