Bullfrog BBQ sauce, no longer available
. It was a super bbq sauce, i think the secret ingredient was carrots.... sounds weird, but it is a WOW sauce. "They make their sauce very chunky and thick. There are a lot of vegetables in it,"
From a newspaper article about Bullfrog.
"It's very much a homemade sauce with natural ingredients. It's a good, down-to-earth sauce," said Melchert, who also works full time for Apex Construction in Aurora.
Indeed, a glance at Bullfrog's label shows it goes beyond the usual barbecue sauce blend: Bullfrog contains chunky ingredients such as fresh carrots, celery, onions, garlic, jalapeno peppers, brown sugar and more. It is described as a sweet-hot barbecue flavor, with zest and a unique texture. "We have three times the ingredients of other barbeque sauces," said Patrick Childress, Chris' brother and Bullfrog's director of marketing and promotion.
"They make their sauce very chunky and thick. There are a lot of vegetables in it," "Sauces back then were thin in consistency. It was an Open Pit world and we figured we could do a better job," Childress said. His brother Patrick secured a slot at Chicago's amateur Ribfest competition that year, Childress said, and that marked their signature sauce's beginning. To prepare for the competition, "we put the first sauce together in a week," Childress said, "and we haven't varied much from that."
Childress and Melchert entered the sauce in a variety of other rib competitions after their successful Ribfest stint and they now boast basements full of trophies and ribbons to prove its success. They are particularly proud of their second-place finish in the barbecue ribs category at a recent international People's Choice Award competition.
"They make their sauce very chunky and thick. There are a lot of vegetables in it," said Tim Young, Dorina's owner. "We make it exactly the same as they produced it. Other packers often change ingredients to bring the cost down, but we use exactly what they want. Fresh carrots. Fresh onions. You can't get the same taste if you substitute. If it costs more, people understand. They want freshness and quality."
