This photograph of John Mcilhenny was taken in 1902 in western Mississippi. Behind him, to the right (the man who just couldn't stand still long enough for a photograph, durn it.) is President Theodore Roosevelt, who some people called Teddy, not to be confused with the stuffed animal, which was created after a cartoon ran in newspapers about a President who went on a hunting trip and didn't have much luck shooting a bear, and when the guides offered him a captive bear to shoot, he declined, which happened about the same time and place that this photograph was taken, or so they say. John Mcilhenny was the son of Edmund, who, as you are about to find out, invented Tabasco Sauce. Got it? Good.
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