Re: [CH] Discomfort vs Anguish
Dave Sacerdote (davesas@tiac.net)
Tue, 22 Dec 1998 01:37:22 GMT
>I was just sitting here pondering a question that I felt would be an
>interesting one for the list. Some office mates and myself just finished
>eating the first Jalapeno to arrive from our "office garden" and one of my
>office mates experienced a great deal of discomfort after the experience. It
>got me wondering if people can actually experience severe medical problems
>(shock, etc.) from eating a pepper that was "too hot" if you will.
A friend of mine has trouble with *some* hot peppers - and jalapeno is one
of them - which have an incredible laxative effect on him. He's no "pepper
wuss", but some peppers just go through him like sh*t through a goose.
Another acquaintance doesn't eat really hot foods at all, because he gets
actual physical blisters on his lips from the capsaicin. Hate to think what
would happen to him if he ate a whole bunch.
>some elementary school kids down in Castle Rock CO got sick after consuming
>some of Dave's Insanity but after hearing that the sickest girl allegedly
>consumed 2 cap-fulls of it, an awful lot of adults would get sick off of
>that amount.
<grin> That much Insanity would probably make ME sick...not from the heat,
but because I hate the flavor. There's another sauce out there - Gil's
Crying Tongue - made from smoked habaneros and red savinas...wicked heat
level, but the stuff tastes like you're taking a sip of vinegar that was
used to clean out an old ashtray. <gag>
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Dave Sacerdote
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