Re: [CH] The Beginning of a Chile-Head
AndyB (barnhart@mfire.com)
Mon, 08 Sep 2003 21:52:07 -0400
Sometimes that strategy backfires.
Long, long ago ... when Doug was rather young, I took him to a Hunan
restaurant that I had newly discovered. The chef had recently arrived
from Taiwan, so the Hunan and Szechuan dishes that were marked "Hot",
were hot -- not yet "tamed" for the american taste (this was well before
my CH times).
I ordered Moo Shoo Pork for Doug (you know -- so he could have fun
rolling up his dinner in the accompanying pancakes). I ordered Szechuan
Beef for myself (or some such -- after all, I've lost many gray cells
sense then).
When the dinners arrived, doug said: "Dad, what do you have there? --
what is it? -- can I try some? -- I want to try some!"
"Doug,", I said, quite inadvertently and unknowingly applying reverse
physiology, "this is very spicy hot - far to hot for you."
Well, I lost most of my Szechuan Beef to Doug, and had to settle for
rolling up the Moo Shoo Pork for myself (at least I got some
chile-pepper oil from the waiter).
Thereby hangs the tale of the start of a major CH!
AndyB
jim@wildpepper.com wrote:
> Re: So what did the other teens do?? Learn from her lesson????NOOOOOO
> they had to try it too. LOL
> Anita
>
> Reminds me of the time when the high school kids were picking
chiles for
> me a few years back out in the fields. They were all daring one
another
> to try one of the Red Savina(R). The first one tried it and promptly
> went into SEVERE discomfort, eating grass, apples, well water, ANYTHING
> he could get his hands on to try and help the burning. You could see
> the other kids all looking at each other with amazement, hearing them
> say to themselves 'it can't be all THAT hot'. They ALL had to try it
> themselves. Sigh... like my daddy used to tell me: the burnt finger
> teaches best ;-)
>
> -Jim C
> Mild to Wild(R)
>
> .
>