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Burnt & Salty to introduce a new Cocktail Sauce in the Fall.

Cris Miller and Bob Cook are all around unique! The name Burnt & Salty is quite unique and is a perfect fit for their line of condiments. Award winning Korean Mustard was first and foremost, there is a spicy version available for the lovers of HOT. Coconut Suka is a spicy coconut vinegar and Thai-Chili Glaze rounds out the current line. Hold on, a new product is on the horizon for the fall! Miss Paula, the local shrimp boat in the Charleston area inspired Cris and Bob to produce a new Cocktail Sauce. Rest assured it will be some kind of delicious! Bob is the Executive chef at Edmund's Oast in Charleston and is capable of everything wonderful in the kitchen. Please be sure to notice the catchy unique character on the labels for each product, we can hardly wait to see what pops up on the Cocktail Sauce.

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Soda City Candy AKA Fat Man's Candy Business as Usual

Robbie Robertson hasn't skipped a beat with his brittle, toffee and peanut business since Covid-19 reared it's ugly head. The only thing Robbie has done differently is selling his candy nationwide on Ebay and that was in the making before Covid came on. He continues to create new products and send them on their way to the test market, recently he developed then tested honey roasted peanut brittles. Surprisingly enough the regular honey roasted flunked the test while the salty and spicy versions won out in a big way. Keep up your creative good work!!    

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Freeman's BBQ Sauce moves slower than normal.

Ed Freeman says his BBQ sauce is not moving in stores at it's usual pace, so naturally blames it on Covid. Since people have cooked at home way more than normal for the past four and a half months we wonder if they may be venturing out, trying different sauces since they are grilling more? A strong possibility Ed! Freeman's is South Carolina staple so make sure you always have a bottle or two on hand when it's time to light up the grill!!

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Lowcountry Kettle Potato Chips to introduce two new flavors.

Lowcountry Kettle Potato Chips is introducing two new flavors of chips during the pandemic, Bulls Bay Sea Salt and Carolina Reaper. This company has definitely felt the curse of Covid -19 having to shut down for a while due to the fact that they supply many small specialty shops, cafes, restaurants and bars with their delicious chips. Lowcountry features flavors native to our great state so along with the two new flavors the original Bloody Mary, Mustard BBQ Sauce, State Fair Fried Pickle and Spicy Pimento Cheese round out pure heaven to chip lovers. Visit your local Food Lion, find the SC Specialty Food kiosk or order some online today!

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Mother Shucker's is in demand!

Mary Sparrow's Mother Shucker's Original Cocktail Sauce is more in demand than usual due to the Covid situation and people staying at home to eat. We all know the restaurant industry is one of, if not the hardest hit industry thanks to the pandemic. Mary's family owns The Oyster Bar in Columbia and is still suffering from the lack of business. The restaurant was closed for 3 months and is now open at half capacity. The after hours bar business was a major source of income for the restaurant and under the current mandatory guidelines, bars must close at 11:00 pm so this just compounds the woes of restaurant ownership during this time. Let's all do our part and support our local restaurants! After this is over we will need restaurants, your support is vital to their existence! Slide on down to The Oyster Bar on Park Street in Columbia to enjoy your favorite seafood and adult beverages and while you are there don't forget to pick up a bottle of Mother Shucker's Original Cocktail Sauce! [caption id="attachment_518" align="aligncenter" width="240"] SONY DSC[/caption]

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Red Bone Alley Foods is back to normal.

Red Bone Alley Foods is pretty much back to normal after the initial onset of the Covid pandemic. Will Green said the biggest problem incurred was acquiring ingredients necessary for production when the supply chain broke down in the beginning. The grocery industry has flourished since mid-March and business is good due to the fact the majority of Red Bone Alley Foods business comes from supplying big retailers with their delicious sauces and marinades. Since food production is such a regulated industry and sanitation is the name of the game, the only thing they are doing differently is wearing masks or as the new term puts it "masking-up".

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Antebellum Chocolates to add a new toffee bar and toffee chips.

James Stefanakos has managed to weather the Covid storm and is "limping" back to business. April and May are good months in the Chocolate business but as we all know this year they were an absolute disaster! Summer is his slow season anyway so he is looking forward to the autumn when he plans to introduce his new Juvalicious Toffee bar made with fresh South Carolina butter and cream. Plans are to also introduce toffee chips along with the bars.  James lost his mom Juva on New Year's Day so he named the new bar after her in her honor. Antebellum Chocolates has a mission to help feed local hungry children and proceeds from every bar sold go toward feeding a child. Good luck James!!

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Faithful Foods adds products and residential deliveries during Covid

There is little that can slow Heidi Black and her Faithful Foods operation, but Covid did for a short time in the beginning. During this time most everyone has had to take a step back and reevaluate their situation, as did Heidi. Faithful Foods did some redesigning of their packaging insuring less handling and additional safety features, added residential delivery and several new products. Adding new products is nothing new but definitely worth a mention here because they are chicken salad mixes and most people adore chicken salad!  Home delivery has been very popular, orders are placed in a cooler and delivered with absolutely no contact involved. Heidi also updated her website to be more user friendly and to date online orders have increased dramatically. Sales of her fresh/freezable products such as tomato pies and quiches to local markets have also increased due to the fact that Faithful Foods is very farm to table oriented, growing and producing much of what they use on their ranch! One of the only good things that Covid has done has heightened the awareness of the quality of food people put in their bodies.

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Sugar Tit Moonshine looking to expand during Covid - 19!

Bob Jordan is looking to expand Sugar Tit Moonshine in the midst of the Covid - 19 pandemic. If you had asked him about expanding two months ago, he would have looked at you as though you were crazy. Roughly 90 percent of his business is generated by billboards on the interstates in the Upstate solely from tourism. He never had to completely close but tourists take the distillery tours, imbibe in the tastings, then purchase product so as the tours and tastings were halted by Covid, so was business. Sugar Tit Moonshine is now sold in Mississippi and in demand as well as the new Carolina Cookies and Cream flavor. Business started booming again in late May as re-openings occurred and tourism started it's return, feast to famine back to feast! Good luck to the Jordan's with your expansion!