The Tango team were looking for a partner to collaborate on a special spicy sauce for students to dip their fried chicken strips! (In fact this was a 3-way collab with Nabzy’s chicken shops!) So, naturally, they thought of us at South Devon Chilli Farm, the home of British chillies!
So, we rolled up our sleeves, put on our lab coats and set out to create something as bold, as punchy, and as unapologetically Tango as the drinks themselves.
The Orange Chilli Sauce.
Yes, you read that right. Orange. Chilli. Sauce. And trust us—its awesome.
But developing a sauce worthy of the Tango name isn’t just a case of tossing some oranges and chillies into a blender and hoping for the best. Oh no. This was a flavour quest. A spicy, citrusy, trial-and-error-laden journey with more twists than a Tango bottle cap.
It started small. Tiny batches—each with the potential to be either a taste revolution or a fiery disaster. One version was too tame (where’s the spice?). Another, too aggressive (fire brigade, anyone?). The real trick? Keeping that signature Tango tang, while layering in just the right amount of heat.
So we did what all great sauce-sorcerers do: we sent out samples, gathered feedback, and tweaked like mad scientists.
A little less vinegar. A little more citrus. Dial the chilli back. Now crank it up again. It was a flavour balancing act that would’ve made a trapeze artist sweat.
Eventually, we nailed it. That “eureka” moment when the team simultaneously high-fives and the taste-testers’ eyes light up! That’s when you know: it’s ready.
Then it was down to work, bottling hundreds of these fiery orange beauties, destined to land on shelves, in takeaways and (most importantly) on your plates.
Partnering with Tango wasn’t just exciting—it was downright electric. Few brands have a flavour profile bold enough to inspire a whole new sauce, and even fewer have the fizz and flair to make it fly!
Stay saucy,
The Flavour Freak Behind the Bottle (aka Dan the Chef!)