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Wow-Wow Sauce
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A very potent and highly unstable condiment. One of the main problems with Wow-Wow Sauce is its tendency to turn into an explosive when mixed with charcoal, the only element of gunpowder that it lacks.
The ingredients for Wow-Wow Sauce, as stated in Reaper Man, are:
- Matured Scumble
- Pickled Cucumbers
- Capers
- Mustard
- Mangoes
- Figs
- Grated Wahoonie
- Anchovy Essence
- Asafetida
- A good deal of Sulfur and Saltpeter
Wow-Wow sauce is itself an ingredient in the "ultimate hangover cure" the wizards create in Hogfather. It may seem paradoxical that a sauce containing the highly alcoholic scumble could cure hangovers, but the hangover cure's ingredients (and possibly Wow-Wow sauce's ingredients too) undergo considerable chemical and magical changes. Roundworld analogy: two highly inflammable gasses, hydrogen and oxygen, combine to form the fire-quenching substance water.
Archchancellor Ridcully enjoys Wow-Wow Sauce on his meals, often to an extent that most sane men who knew about the ingredients would be terrified of. A bottle of freshly-brewed sauce has, in extremis, been employed as a hand-grenade.
There is a legal, non-lethal and decent recipe for Wow-Wow Sauce in Nanny Ogg's Cookbook, which is probably as near as legal statute concerning manufacture and storage of explosive substances will allow anyone on Roundworld to get....
