The store also has sections for vintage clothing, furniture, collectibles and toys. Among the unusual items on offer are bones, peat jewelry, art pieces based on advertisements or signs, geodes, vintage medical instruments, wood carvings, African masks, old-fashioned radios and cameras and a metal 19th-century coffin with a real skeleton inside. The Odditorium is a curiosity shop stocked with items Murrell has gathered from similar stores such as the Oddities and Curiosities show in New Orleans. The new shop is inside a 1,300 square foot enclosed space within the flea market, which once housed a vintage clothing and furniture store that closed over the summer. The store allows customers to sample any product on the shelves to find exactly what kind of spiciness they're looking for, and even keeps complimentary mini nacho chips or spoons on hand to sample with them.įor more information on Pepper Palace, visit, or call the Outlets location at 76.ĭavid Murrell, owner of the Flowood Flea Market (1325 Flowood Drive), opened The Odditorium on Saturday, Dec. Pepper Palace also has a wide array of products made from other peppers like jalapeno, cayenne, habanero and ghost peppers, for those looking for products that won't likely leave them unable to taste anything for several hours afterward. Customers must sign a special waiver and be 18 years old or older before they can sample or purchase The End. The store's hottest hot sauce, called "The End," is made with the Carolina Reaper pepper, the hottest pepper on record with a Scoville rating of more than 1.5 million. Testers dilute the extract in sugar water and give it to a panel of testers until they can no longer detect the heat in the dilution, then assign it a numerical rating from 0 to 3.2 million based on the spiciness. The Scoville test involves using an exact weight of dried pepper dissolved in alcohol to extract the chemical capsaicin that gives peppers their spiciness. Pepper Palace has more than 400 different products on offer, all of which have individual spiciness ratings based off the Scoville Scale, which pharmacist Wilbur Scoville created in 1912. Gonzalez has worked as a manager for numerous stores since the early 1970s, including Vineyard Vines and Pottery Barn Kids. Migawa reached out to Gonzalez in November 2019 and asked him to operate the store, Gonzalez told the Jackson Free Press. Pepper Palace currently has 66 locations across the United States and Canada.īrandon resident, artist and woodcrafter Robert Gonzalez manages the Outlets location. Pepper Palace handcrafts all of its products at its headquarters using natural ingredients and no preservatives. In 2008, Migawa opened a new store inside a former warehouse in Severville, Tenn., which now serves as the company's headquarters. However, it wasn't until a graduation party where Migawa tried a hot sauce that proved far hotter than he imagined that he truly became hooked and decided to open a store of his own, Pepper Palace Vice President Caleb Stone told the Jackson Free Press. His parents, Bob and Melissa Stabb, had operated their own hot sauce store, Pepper Pot, in Wisconsin, and made their own brand called Uff-da. Former steel mill worker Craig Migawa opened the first Pepper Palace in Gatlinburg, Tenn., in 1989.
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