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Lesser of Two Evils

January 10, 2006 at 9:36 AM

George was mistaken in believing the peppers were mild. I asked before adding them to my salad, just to make sure. Make no mistake about it, the slice I stuffed in my mouth proved to be every bit as spicy as a pure mouthful of jalapeno. Oops! It was burning before I knew what was happening. Holy... !?

I drank milk. I ate bread. I sought ice. Burnt lips, burning, burning. Can I even think about anything but blistering pain at this point?

I went to the studio and returned to my double stop exercise, curious to see which would win, the prominent pain in my mouth or the pain in my ears.

Double stops win, hands down.

hee hee, I had a very similar experience with Habeneros on my pizza. I'll never do that again. Of course after relaying this story to my dad, he gives me hot sauce all the time. I usually just leave it at work, since they have warnings of "Use as an ingredient, not a sauce" and are all about 700,000 or higher on the scoville meter.

Good to know you survived though;)

We have some hot sauce at work here. The only thing written on the label:

100% PAIN

Is the information in yet on how many times it burned?
Are you asking Eric or me?

It burned 42 times out loud.

Or maybe once.

Try sugar water - it's what the waitress in Malaysia gave me after I bit into a Bird's Eye Chili - you know those little bitty tiny ones with more fire than a nuclear reactor....
Dairy is actually one of the best cures because casein, a protein found in milk, breaks the bond between the capsaicin (the hot chemical) and the pain receptors in your mouth.
i like my pepper spray
it keeps bad guys way
and when they try to steal my bag
"oh, no sir, not today"

capsaicin and pure pain
it hangs on my keychain
why people like to eat the stuff's
a mystery to me

wait a minute! what happened? i wrote lines that rhymed but some of them disappeared! oh well. i was going to say:

capsaicin and pure pain
it hangs from my key chain
it lets a mugger know that his
attempt would be in vain

pepper juice would be
best used for my safety
why people like to eat the stuff's
a mystery to me

If you feel secure don't be so hasty
It might be your last stand
your spray might really be quite tasty
to a strong-arming Mexican
That's a racist thing to say!