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Bronco Bob's serves up a fair to middling barbecue sauce in the form of "Bronco Bob's Smoked Bacon Chipotle Sauce" One would expect a sauce called "Smoked Bacon Chipotle Sauce" to feature three flavors prominently: Smoke, chipotle and bacon. Guess how many are featured in this sauce?
Ingredients: Tomato puree (tomato paste, water, citric acid), sugar, molasses, vinegar, soy sauce (water, wheat, soybeans, salt), bacon bits (bacon cured with water, salt, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrate. May also contain sugar, dextrose, brown sugar, sodium phosphates, potassium chloride, flavoring), salt, chipotle peppers, dried garlic, onion powder, spices. I'm not sure if the fact that the bacon bits has more (potential) ingredients than the sauce itself. I'm always a little leary of the disclaimer "may contain"... "If you don't know what's in it why should I be eating it?" Is what I think. Oh well, off to the spoon test.  As you can probably tell from the picture this is one thick and chunky sauce! It easily clings to the spoon, heck this stuff would teflon a serious run for the money. I took another shot with some of the sauce spread out on a plate just to give you an idea how chunky this sauce really is. But how does it taste? Off the spoon it's really barbecue with chunks of "bacon bits" and something I *thought* was onion until i checked the ingredients again and found out there's no onion. It's not bad, at all it's just that bacon and chipotle aren't the first things that come to mind when I taste it. On my standard testbed (Tyson home style chicken breast tenderloins) it's much the same. Chipotle doesn't enter the picture and the bacon is to subtle to be noticed. Overall I'd say it's a decent barbecue sauce but nothing spectacular. Perhaps it'd be better as a grilling sauce than a dipping sauce but that test will have to wait for a while.
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