The Best Sauces
| “ | The butcher said that every customer who tried it said -"These are the best sauces I've ever tasted". Hence the name, "The Best Sauces You'll Ever Taste" | ” |
| Jack Scalfani on the name of his sauce. | ||
Jack's sauce company, The Best Sauces, is a brand of sauces, seasoning, and jerky which has gained infamy on the internet for its excessive use of high fructose corn syrup and jelly-like consistency. Despite this, Jack has insisted on the superior quality of his sauces and has made it nearly impossible for customers to actually get their hands on them. Jack stocks his sauces in obscure hardware stores, requiring customers to call in and personally order a jar of sauce before picking it up in person. This bizarre and inconvenient system has led to numerous complaints from frustrated customers. But the strangeness doesn't stop there. The sauces are also made in a generic factory, similar to those used by Sodexo foods. This has led to speculation that Jack's sauces may not be as "hand-crafted" as he claims.
Despite the mockery and criticism, Jack remains steadfast in his belief that "The Best Sauces" are, in fact, the best
History
In 2000, after leaving his career as the late-night DJ for KIK-FM country radio, Jack briefly worked at a large-scale artist management company before starting his own management company, GiveMe Entertainment. Jack managed musicians, singers, screenwriters, and soon picked up a chef as a client. According to Jack, for unknown reasons, his chef client bailed on him and left behind around 300lbs of spices. With these 300lbs of spices, Jack concocted a barbecue sauce which later became "The Best Barbeque Sauce You'll Ever Taste". One day, Jack brought his sauce to Brees' Quality Meats in Garden Grove, where one of the butchers there set out samples of his sauce for customers to try. Returning a few days later, Jack was informed by the butcher that customers were a fan of his sauce and that some customers wanted to order his sauce by the case. Thus Jack's brand, "The Best Barbecue Sauce You'll Ever Taste" was born.
With the initial success of his sauce, Jack began selling his sauce at the Orange County Market Place and soon on his now defunct website, TheBestSauces.com. Throughout the 2000s, Jack expanded his sauce line to include hot barbecue, teriyaki, Carribean jerk, and a gourmet seasoning. In 2008, Jack's brother, Charles Scalfani, suggested making a YouTube channel to promote his sauces while giving cooking tips. Following his brother's idea, Jack created his channel called the Cooking With Jack Show and the rest is history.
Walmart Controversy
Following his popularity on YouTube, Jack was able to stock his sauce in multiple grocery chains such as Whole Foods and most famously, Walmart. In 2013, Jack released a video revealing that his sauce was available to purchase at 185 Walmart locations on the West Coast starting April 2013. During this time, Jack's other brother, Jim Scalfani was a Senior Product Development Manager for Walmart Headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas. It is widely thought that the reason for Jack's sauce being picked up by Walmart was because of Jack using his brother's position within the company. This accusation is further backed by the time in 2021 when Jack's sauce reemerged online on the website of Do It Best, a nationwide hardware store company where Jim was working as the Senior Merchandise Manager of Outdoor Living & Holiday from February 2021 to February 2022.
Products
With the success of his barbeque sauce, Jack marketed other products under the "The Best... You'll Ever Taste" brand such as other sauces, a seasoning blend, and unsuccessfully a line of sauce-flavored jerky.
Sauces (2000-present)
- The Best Barbeque Sauce You'll Ever Taste
- The Best Hot Barbeque Sauce You'll Ever Taste
- The Best Teriyaki Sauce You'll Ever Taste
- The Best Caribbean Jerk Sauce You'll Ever Taste
Seasoning (2000-present)
- The Best Gourmet Seasoning You'll Ever Taste
Jerky (2016-2019)
Unbeknownst to most, Jack briefly had a line of sauce-flavored jerky which launched in 2016 and was discontinued in 2019 due to Jack's poor marketing skills and lack of demand for more disgusting slop.
- The Best Barbeque Beef Jerky You'll Ever Taste
- The Best Hot Barbeque Beef Jerky You'll Ever Taste
- The Best Teriyaki Beef Jerky You'll Ever Taste
- The Best Caribbean Jerk Beef Jerky You'll Ever Taste
Response
It really sucks