If you’re from Louisiana, then two things are probably true: you believe that there's hardly a foodstuff in all of creation that can't be improved upon by a generous application of hot sauce, and at one time or another, that hot sauce came out of a bottle with a fancy blue stripe running through it. And sure, we all know that Crystal scores the holy food trinity of being cheap, delicious, and good for you (see below!), but you’re about to get to know it on a much deeper level…



1. The birth of Crystal is a love story

In early '20s NOLA, a man named Alvin Baumer fell hard for a young hottie named Mildred. Problem was, he didn't have a job, and that kind of thing could straight-up kill your marriage prospects back then -- so he brashly borrowed some cash from his future father-in-law, and purchased a small food company called “Miss Fruit Products”. Bam. Now he had a career!