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December 31, 2020 10:56 AM Derek Deis
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Soon after, he thought to himself, ‘”You know, I should try to make this.”
So he did. Booey began experimenting with spices and testing his pepper sauce with friends and family.
“And it got to the point over about three years, people said, ‘Don’t change it.’ So that’s kind of how it started,” recalled Booey.
The name Pappa Booey actually came from a friend of his son.
“He always called me Pappa Booey. And then other people started calling me that, so we just accepted it.”
What started with just pepper sauce grew into SmokeHouse BBQ, Sweet Jamaican Jerk and Sweet Chili Lime Cilantro sauces as well.