Really don't see the point of this.
People eating ridiculously hot food to establish the size of their testes.
The British do the same thing with Vindaloo (or worse, Phall).
I once worked near a Pizza joint - the security guards at the local shopping
centre proved thei machismo by eating pizzas liberally sprinkled with dried
chili flakes. Just ridiculous behaviour.
I like peppers, curry and so on. But turning it into a competition to
demonstrate your manhood or other qualities - dogged persistence in the face of
avoidable pain perhaps - that's rather daft.
Oh, and a 70oz filet ain't 'mignon'.
Andrew Fildes
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On 27/10/2011, at 7:52 AM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
> Place called Chicken & Oil, Bryan, Texas. Death Burger.
>
> I survived.
>
> --Bob
>
>
> On Oct 26, 2011, at 3:57 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
>
>>> I hope they have an ambulance on standby.
>>
>>
>> There was a BBQ restaurant here in Des Moines (Big Daddy's) that had a
>> challenge. You had to eat one of their sandwiches (not overly large) with a
>> healthy dose of this amazingly brutal sauce on it. Miserably hot. The
>> challenge required that you eat it (and not barf it up). If you succeeded,
>> real money would pass hands. (mostly to a charity, but still).
>>
>> So, one day, I ate there. Tried about a tablespoon of the sauce on my
>> sandwich. Not bad. Sweated a bit, but doing fine. (I wasn't doing the
>> challenge, but determined that I could have done it without too much
>> effort). Most people put about two drops on theirs and cry. I had a
>> tablespoon. Well, not content to let me be too haughty, he runs into the
>> kitchen and brings back another jar of something that looked like jelly.
>> Some experimental stuff. I later learned it was made from the Trinidad
>> Scorpion Pepper. When this guy asks you if you want to try an experiment and
>> you are already wading through the lake of fire, the smart answer would be
>> to say "no". But I had my pride (and curiousity) to deal with, so I said
>> "sure". I try a drop of it and determined that it had an interesting flavor,
>> but wasn't particularly hot, so I added a tablespoon of it on my sandwich.
>> Unfortunately, there was a delay of about a minute before the flames kicked
>> in. By that point it was far too late. The flames were of an entirely
>> different type, so it wasn't that it was just hotter than it was before, but
>> it was two distinct kinds of hot.
>>
>> I would have been better off drinking gasoline and swallowing a match.
>>
>> I did finish the sandwich, but was a bit green for the rest of the
>> afternoon. He couldn't believe that I ate it and said I was the first person
>> to eat more than a drop of the stuff. He was about to call the ambulance,
>>
>> I've taken a difference stance since then. After succeeding at eating it,
>> I've determined that I successfully ate a hot sauce so hot that you could
>> cut steal with it without a torch. As far as hot sauces are concerned, it is
>> the top. No need to try for more. Been there, done that. Back to just normal
>> stuff that tops out under a million Scovilles. No need to willingly subject
>> myself to more torture. The problem with most of these sauces (Dave's
>> instanity sauce is a well-known example of this) is that they use capsaicin
>> extract to get the heat units up. Big Daddy's sauce got it directly from the
>> pepper itself.
>>
>> I've contemplated the 70oz challenge, but the problem is that you have to
>> eat all the other stuff too.
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