[CH] evil chex mix
bradley ellis (h0t5auce@home.com)
Thu, 8 Nov 2001 06:33:27 -0600
Doubt I'm the first to do this, but I had to share this with you guys.
We had our annual United Way fund raiser at work last week and everybody was
asked to bring a dish to share. I whipped a double batch of standard Chex
mix, but added 4 tablespoons of Jim Campbell's Backdraft to the wet mixture
used to coat the dry mixture. The aroma wafting through the house while it
slowly baked was wonderful. Anyway, at work, I put a sign in front of the
bowl that said "HOT: the slow, back-of-your-throat kind of burn." The
people who know me cautiously took a nibble and confirmed that yes, it was a
slow burn that snuck up on you. The folks who don't know me would toss back
a handful and claim, "This isn't hot!" And then while walking away, start
to cough and say something like "My God!" or "What the hell did you put in
this?" Common consensus was that "it's good, but it's damn hot." A few
true heatseekers gathered around the bowl and finished it off by day's end.
And I can't count the number of times I started the sentence, "Well, there's
this guy in Indiana ..." (Jim, I passed your name and web address on to a
few folks ... converts maybe?).
The next day on my desk was a note -- scrawled in blue highlighter on a
piece of scrap paper -- "you are evil."
I consider that high praise!
Brad