Re: [CH] first habanero experience
John Benz Fentner, Jr. (jbenz@courant.infi.net)
Mon, 16 Feb 1998 13:18:40 -0500
Steve Ross wrote:
> I recently took a weekend ski trip with my fraternity. On Saturday I was
> snowboarding and having just a great day despite my hang-over. I was
> innocently standing in the lift line when two younger teens engaged in a
> ski pole war. Not cool. I was standing right behind them. I think you
> know what's comming... One of the kids grabbed his buddys pole and tried to
> rip it out of his hand, well the sharp end of the pole hit me directly in
> the eye. I got it patched up in the first aid station on the hill and
> stumbled my way back to the condo. Being that I had been skiing all day I
> was pretty hungry so I grabbed a bowl of chili. No one mentioned the fact
> there were habaneros in the chili. In my injured state I had very little
> visual capability, both eyes were watering profusely. I took a spoonfull
> of the chili and bit into something soft. "Wow this is a great tasting
> pepper. What is it?" Those were the last coherent words I was able to
> utter after eating the habanero for a good fifteen minutes. The heat hit
> me like a slowly moving freight train that was building up speed. Finally
> at the height of this religeous experience I was hooting howling like a dog
> in a tigers den. It was great! I loved every burning minute of it.
> Finally I can say I have eaten the hottest pepper in the world. I love it.
> Steve
>
> By the way, my eye is almost healed completely.
Ouch...but proving, as we all knew right along, that eating chili is better than a
poke in the eye with a sharp stick. :)
JB
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