Vintage black and white portrait of a man with a mustache, with a speech bubble in the top left reading 'WINGIN IT' in red text.
A black and white vintage portrait of a man with a mustache on the right side, with a comic-style speech bubble reading 'WINGIN IT' in red text above him.

Hot damn history in the making

At 100 years old we have seen some $#!T. But hot damn if we are not the coolest 100-year-old on the planet, we don't know who is.

The year is 1918.

We're in Detroit, horse-drawn carriages have fully given way to automobiles, and yet, who really cares.

Adam Estilette & Jacob Frank

Two icons partner up to create a hot sauce perfectly spiced with a rich blend of cayenne peppers. Bless their spicy hearts.

Fast forward to 1920

The first ever bottle of Frank’s RedHot is, well, bottled.

FACT: There is only one of those original bottles left in existence.

FACT: We did not hire a fact-checker.

They Looked at Wings and Thought… “Oooh.”

Time-travel to 1964. Anchor Bar & Grill in Buffalo, NY. They decide to use Frank’s to invent Buffalo Wings. 

Close-up of golden baked chicken wings on a sheet pan.
Before 1964
After 1964

You probably have a mouth full of buffalo wings right now. Don't you?

Don’t think we really need to say anymore on the subject. Moving on.

Close-up of several chicken wings coated in a glossy orange-brown sauce, filling the frame.
Close-up of buffalo wing chicken wings coated in a glossy orange-brown sauce inside a metal bowl.

it’s 1996.

Buffalo Wings are so popular now, Frank’s RedHot® creates a pre-made Buffalo Wing sauce because who wants to mix anything by hand anymore, right? It’s 1996. There’s no time for that.

Let’s skip over Y2K, because that just really was not a thing whatsoever. Like, at all.

Hot sauce poured onto chicken wings, with the text: “I put that on everything.”

Boom. 2009.

What was a thing? Our tagline. “I put that $#!t on everything” comes out of sweet, ol’ Ethel’s lips and jolts people out of their comfort zones, never to return again.

Frank’s RedHot graphic stating “#1 Hot Sauce in the World,” with a source disclaimer at the bottom.

Cut to Present Day.

This may or may not be accurate given what year you are currently reading this in. 

Frank’s RedHot® is the #1 Hot Sauce brand in the world. Now sold in 20 countries around, and shows no signs of letting up anytime in the near future.

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