Tabasco

Meanings

Proper Noun

• state Mexico (country).

Noun

• A spicy pepper sauce made from tabasco pepper (a chili pepper) with the addition of vinegar and salt.

Origin

• Of unclear origin. others suggest it derives from a Nahuatl word: tla-uashka-ko meaning "place that has an owner", or tlapachtli.
• The tabasco pepper was popular in the Mexican state and is named for it; a hot sauce made from that pepper was eaten in the state since the 1650s, and a version was popularized in the United States and elsewhere by the McIlhenny Company of Avery Island, Louisiana, beginning in the 1870s.