This article also tells all about the newly crowned "world's hottest pepper", a title bestowed by Guinness World Records.
Do any of you think you can beat the Munchkin Man in a hot pepper eating contest?
One night the Munchkin Man made a barroom bet that the Munchkin Man could chug down a full shot glass of Dave's Insanity Sauce.
When all the bets were taken, the bartender gave the Munchkin Man a full shot glass of Dave's Insanity Sauce.
Down the hatch it went.
The Munchkin Man fell onto the floor gasping for breath.
The Munchkin Man felt like he was going to die.
But the Munchkin Man didn't lose a drop.
The Munchkin Man won the bet and the admiration and awe of many of the bar patrons.
The Munchkin Man also had to go to the doctor and spent about a week in bed.
The Munchkin Man has always prided himself on his love for hot and spicy food and his ability to eat the hottest peppers anybody has to offer.
When the Munchkin Man goes to the famous Thai restaurant in Las Vegas, The Lotus of Siam, they ask the Munchkin Man how hot he wants his food on a 10-point scale.
The Munchkin Man always says "12."
One night the Munchkin Man went to a Mexican restaurant and asked for the hottest salsa they could come up with.
They brought pack a little dish of salsa and said:
"Here, try this. But be careful! Very very hot!"
The Munchkin Man tried it.
The Munchkin Man was disappointed.
It was only moderately hot.
The Munchkin Man wanted much hotter.
The Munchkin Man called for the manager.
The manager came.
The Munchkin Man said:
"The Munchkin Man has a complaint. The Munchkin Man asked for the hottest salsa you got. And you bring ice cream."
The manager apologized and took the dish away. Moments later, the manager brought back another dish of salsa.
This batch was better. Although the Munchkin Man had tasted much hotter, it was satisfactory to the Munchkin Man.
It passed the Munchkin Man's "ear test." This is when a particular hot sauce or hot pepper makes the Munchkin Man burn from one ear to the other.
The Munchkin Man eats jalapeno peppers like they were candy.
Habaneros?
The Munchkin Man has never tried one he couldn't handle.
But now the Munchkin Man may have met his match with this newly crowned "world's hottest pepper."
It is now the Munchkin Man's new life goal to try one of these peppers.
The Munchkin Man is going to order some of the seeds:
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"My eyes watered uncontrollably and my nose ran. I felt like I was gargling with acid. My hands quivered. As the minutes passed, the pain grew worse," he wrote. "I shoveled in yogurt: No relief. I chewed bread: Nothing.
"My head felt like it was expanding. My ears felt as if hot liquid was draining from them. Picture one of those old Tom and Jerry cartoons, with steam blasting from Tom's ears as a train whistle blows. That was me."
It was about 20 minutes before Sullivan could talk.
Then he called his wife. Her thoughts?
"She laughed at me."
that sounds pretty strong...
when our destroyer took on provisions in the Phillipines, we got some Phillipino peppers that looked just like jalapenos but i don't think they were...
sailors were paying twenty bucks to anybody who could eat a whole one... not many won that bet, but i did...
and we had a lot of them, they were in cans the size of coffee cans... i suspect they got dumped over the side.
i ate a few... the burn literally spread to the skin on your face.... it didn't just stay in your mouth... your cheeks would sweat and get cold to the touch while they felt like they were burning i've eaten lots of habaneros, grown 'em myself even...
the "trick' to enjoying peppers no matter how hot hey are is to scoop out the seeds....
quite frankly? i don't like meals to be seasoned so heavily that you can't taste them anymore...
too many of those little red thai peppers ruin a meal for me cuz i can't taste anything else (for an hour or so)...
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whats the point in eating something so hot?..is it a rite of passage?..does it taste so good that you actually want more?..is it a macho thing?...
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they stimulate the release of endorphins... a natural high...
of course, in the beginning, it's just as you suppose. a test...
some people actually take the active ingredient capsaicin in pill form to help control minor pain...
why would anybody snort a (basically unidentified/unknown) white powder up their nose? same reason at first, a test to see if you "can hang with the crew"...
chocolate and hot pepper is pretty good too. i know it sounds weird, but.....
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Every grow your own and leave them on the vine for a long time? I grew a few different types many years ago, and they were almost sweet if picked real early. If i left them on the vine for a real long time they turned into fire.
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