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This Hot Sauce Has Been Developed To Mimic The Bite Of A Spider

It's created by Steven Trim, a scientist working at a company researching venom for drug discovery....
Mark Linehan
Mark Linehan

5:09 PM - 20 Mar 2019



This Hot Sauce Has Been Develo...

Fergal D'Arcy

This Hot Sauce Has Been Developed To Mimic The Bite Of A Spider

Mark Linehan
Mark Linehan

5:09 PM - 20 Mar 2019



"Blows your taste receptors to another level"

It's created by Steven Trim, a scientist working at a company researching venom for drug discovery.

Steven had a eureka moment and was inspired by the action of a spider venom to create a sauce (as you do).

He said, "It's a similar heat component that the venom would cause. We finally hit on the idea of doing a synthetic inspired sauce."

The company is based in a place called Sandwich (hur hur) in Kent.

Here he is being interviewed on local telly in Kent which doesn't look far off from an Alan Partridge sketch:



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