Photos from The Austin Chronicle's 18th Annual Hot Sauce Festival. Congrats to all the winners. Steve Hopson/Flickr If you can't view the Flash slideshow above, an alternate version appears after the jump.......

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Man sweat, burned tongues, and cold beer dominated the Austin Chronicle’s annual Hot Sauce Festival and competition on Sunday. A bounty of Austin’s bravest descended on Waterloo Park to test their Texas taste buds on sauces both red and green, chunky and thin, zing-zangy and hotsy-totsy. Lines were long, but spirits remained high among those eager for a mouthful of abuse. What was good: No scarcity of chips. Revolts have broken out in years past.......

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Remember to visit the Austin Chronicle's annual Hot Sauce Festival this Sunday (August 28th) at Waterloo Park. It is, after all, free. According to the Chronicle, more than one hundred gallons of hot sauce are consumed at the festival every year. Why does this idea make us think of the toilet? Nevermind, hot sauce is good, despite its repercussions. And at the festival you can have LOTS and LOTS of hot sauce. You can......

We are hungry and we want that addictive creamy salsa dip, diets be damned. It is all Matthew Odam's fault. He knows a hot mama (or two) and gave us a sample of the stuff via the mama. Now we are hooked. We want it with corn chips. We want it with potato chips. We want it for lunch and dinner and multiple snacks in between. We want to get down on one knee......