PRODUCT: Mingo’s Sweet Hot Mustard & Pepper Butter
 Mingo’s: mysterious but delicious. Photo by Elvira Kalvise | THE NIBBLE. |
Several products arrive at THE NIBBLE offices each week, over the transom*. Of these surprise deliveries, some contain a business card, some have a letter and some have nothing. Most of the products are just O.K.; some are quite good and we want to write about them. And some of the latter become mysteries, because there’s no card, no website on the bottle, and our ability to track down more information is limited. That’s the case with Mingo’s, a brand about which there is precious little online information. We were able to discern that: |
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While there are several companies named S & S Foods in the country, we could find nothing further about the one in Mustang, Oklahoma. No website, no product reviews. Who Mingo is, we have no idea. What we can tell you is that, we really like the products. |
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Like the mustard, the Pepper Butter has a touch of sweetness. As with apple butter, there is no butter in the product; “butter” refers to the smooth spreadability. Use it: |
 Pepper butter on a wrap sandwich. Photo courtesy DairyMax. |
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Mingo’s is worth tracking down. Give it with impunity to food-loving friends. Buy it for stocking stuffers. And tell us how else you’d use it. *This charming publishing industry term means, “arrives unsolicited or without prior knowledge.” It dates to the days before centralized building ventilation systems, when the transom—a small, horizontal window above a door—was opened to circulate air. Some would-be authors, who could not get their manuscripts past the assistant or the mail room, would toss unsolicited manuscripts over the transom, directly into an editor’s office.
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