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This project successfully raised its funding goal on February 1.
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Every dollar counts! A heartfelt "Thank You!" email message from The Afghan Pepper Company and still more thanks on our Facebook page.
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The reward above and a hand-written "Thank You!" note on an Afghan Pepper Company postcard. Think of it as a very small-format, personalized poster.
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The rewards above and a 2oz jar of Afghan Pepper Company Seasoning. This is our proprietary blend of spices that goes great on any type of meat, in salads, stews, casseroles or on anything else that deserves amazing flavor. **For international shipping, please add $6**
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The rewards above and a Kickstarter-only, limited edition (limited to the number of backers receiving this item), commemorative Afghan Pepper Company hot sauce bottle. This reward contains no hot sauce, just the bottle as a souvenir, decoration or conversation piece... "Oh, what a lovely commemorative bottle you have there." "Thank you. I got it when I helped the Afghan Pepper Company change the world. I rock." **For international shipping, please add $6.**
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All rewards above and a bottle of Afghan Pepper Company hot sauce. **For international shipping, please add $6 and be sure to check your country's import restrictions before requesting this reward.**
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All rewards above and a (practical and usable) canvas market tote bag proudly emblazoned with the Afghan Pepper Company logo. It is feature rich, with cargo space, normal handles and a shoulder strap. **For international shipping, please add $6**
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A Kickstarter-only, limited edition (limited to the number of backers receiving this item), numbered, small-format poster packaged with all rewards above in a similarly limited edition commemorative Afghan Pepper Company wooden box. **For international shipping, please add $30**
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All rewards above plus a 12-bottle case of Afghan Pepper Company hot sauce. **For international shipping, please add $60. And then double check your country's import restrictions.**
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All rewards above plus another 12-bottle case of Afghan Pepper Company hot sauce. **For international shipping, please add $90.**
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All rewards above plus a limited edition, numbered, very high quality Afghan Pepper Company kitchen knife and apron. **For international shipping, please add $90.**
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All rewards above plus a framed, numbered, signed-to-you-with-a-thank-you, limited edition, large format poster that will likely elicit a conversation similar to the one noted in the $44 level reward, but the "I rock" will be accompanied by you doing some kind of air guitar move. **For international shipping, please add $120.**
Pledge $2,500 or more Pledge $2,500 or more
All rewards above plus three additional cases of Afghan Pepper Company hot sauce. Each bottle in all five cases of hot sauce will have a second label to be designed by you (with our help if needed). Think of the possibilities! We can put your face on the bottles with a big thought bubble that says "I helped change the world with this bottle." Then you can give the bottles to your employees or coworkers or family members or whomever and be like "What have you done this year? I rock." and then do the air guitar thing again. Then, every time they use that delicious Afghan Pepper Company hot sauce, they will see your face and think; "You know what? He or she really does rock." **For international shipping, please add $200. We are getting close to me just buying a plane ticket to deliver this stuff to you.**
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All rewards above plus what we are calling "Afghan Pepper Company Founders' Credit." Your name (or whomever you would like to name) will be included on our hot sauce labels, on our website, and in our company publications (from Powerpoint presentations to Annual reports) in perpetuity. Whenever we make a label or have something to show the public, there will be your name, listing you as instrumental to the founding of the Afghan Pepper Company; proving to one and all that 1) you rock, 2) you were instrumental in helping to realize this dream and 3) you changed the world. **For international shipping, please add $200.**
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All rewards above plus a line of sauce, unique from the original, with the name and logo of your choosing (within marketable reason) that the Afghan Pepper Company will make and sell along side its flagship hot sauce. The recipe for this sauce will be discussed and developed by you and Matthew Blake when he takes you out to dinner anywhere reasonably close to Davis, Ca. Yes, the French Laundry is reasonably close to Davis and no, the recipe does not have to be for another hot sauce. It just needs to fall in line with the mission of the company. Let's talk! *You need to pay to transport yourself reasonably close to Davis* **For international pledges, please pick your stuff up from Matt when you meet for dinner. If you really need it shipped, please add $200.**
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Matt grew up just south of San Francisco in the town of Burlingame. He has lived all over the US and currently resides in Davis, California; home of UCD and its renowned food science programs. Matthew has a BA in biology from the University of Colorado at Boulder and an MBA from Georgetown University.
Matt is passionate about the Afghan Pepper Company and his faith in the innate goodness of his fellow human beings.
By the way - when you progress a little more you might consider taking advance orders for your sauce as a means to generate cash flow. When you are ready, I'm ready to order a case or two or three.
Matthew - just heard this on NPR. Wouldn't it be great if TAPC went to the International Space Station?
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/02/23/147294191/why-astronauts-crave-tabasco-sauce
Matt - congrats! Random question...my dad's neighbor has done rebuilding work in Afganistan for the last few years. I am not sure if you are in the need of contacts like that, but if so, drop me an email and I will make an introduction.
Thanks again to all of our 238 beautiful backers who want to change the world!
I just realized that we are the 13th most funded food project in Kickstarter history! And, without showing how ridiculously competitive I can get, I would like to point-out that two of the top twelve are actually publishing projects because they are books (not food), two more are design products for growing marijuana over your kitchen sink (cool, but not food) and one is a another design project that converts a standard shipping container into a place to grow large amounts of marijuana quickly (again, cool. Again, not food). So, the top ten are then actually a teaching kitchen in DC (love it), a mobile education greenhouse (love it), a San Francisco restaurant (who knew that San Francisco was low on restaurants?), 3 breweries (yay beer! Seriously. I love beer.), reinvented microwave popcorn (love it), The Afghan Pepper Company and some other stuff I didn't look at because it came in behind us. Hello top 8!
I'm kidding, of course. We are in great company in the top 13 for all time funding because everyone knows that marijuana can be consumed as a food. I'm sure the two cookbooks that raised more than we did have recipes for it and that the restaurant serves it up as a garnish. Who knew that pot smokers were so active on Kickstarter? I hope this doesn't have repercussions for that teaching kitchen...
I can't wait for November... my meals are going to by at least 20% Chilli Sauce.
HOORAY!!!!
Manifest that dream, Matt!
Congratulations!! So glad I could be a part of it!
Seven kinds of awesome. Congratulations.
Just got the email! Yahoooooo!
Congrats on reaching the goal!
Hooray! Congratulations!
We made it! :D
Thanks Joshua. Your efforts (and those of all our supporters) are definitely going to put us over the top. Please keep spreading the word!
Best of luck with this. Really hope it manages to make the goal. I have posted up the link on facebook and directly sent it to a few of my fellow hot sauce afficianado/philanthropist friends.
Kacia, you are awesome. Thank you for your contribution and your support!
Matt! This is so great. I wish you the best of luck! I am broker than broke, and can't contribute as much as I'd like, but I support you all the way!
Thanks Andrew! It means a lot.
Go Matt! You got my pledge--I wish you the best on your endeavor.
Thank you for your help, Bart! I can't thank you (and all of the supporters) enough. Keep spreading the word!
Matt, You've got my pledge - and I posted your link to Facebook. Please let me know if I can help in any other way. Very best regards, Bart
Dana and I traded an email regarding her question and I want everyone to know that we can and will accommodate any reasonable rewards substitutions. Please feel free to ask and we will work it out. The way we see it: once you are a backer of this project, we are working together to make a better world. One bottle of hot sauce here or there will not change the Afghan Pepper Company's overall impact. Just let us know what you want and we'll let you know if we can do it. Thanks for your support!
Awesome idea... I hope it get fully funded! If possible to manage, we really only want a bottle of your hotsauce and don't need all the other swag (if it brings your costs down). Good luck!
Wow. Nice day for The Afghan Pepper Company! Keep it up, world.