seeing this "only choose 3" image going around a lot with a variety of answers and a lot of disparagement toward some essential sauces. the correct answer is 5, 6, and 12. i will explain why because i'm passionate about this

the best hot sauces on this list in my opinion are 2, 4, and 5, because they're largely interchangeable and are all excellent examples of a very versatile mexican hot sauce. put on burrito, put on eggs, put on pizza, go wild

HOWEVER, and i know this from experience, it tastes fucking weird when you put cholula on leftover pad thai that you're eating out of the fridge. not... bad, just weird. sriracha is made with a diff kind of pepper maybe (?) and it just tastes way better on most SE asian food

and NEITHER of those two hot sauces are as vinegary as franks, which is what tabasco wishes it was. tabasco is piss-pepper garbage, but franks adds just the right bite of vinegar to really set off a bodega bacon egg and cheese. sometimes you gotta go with franks