[CH] A new club :-)
Dave Anderson (chilehead@tough-love.com)
Sat, 27 Sep 2003 00:18:18 -0700
Sounds great! I'm going to make it one of these years.
Dave
TLCC
http://www.tough-love.com
> You can't have too many social clubs & there's been another one
> started at Hotel Campbell this evening :-) Most all of the early
> arrivals to the fields have ended up here instead of camping in the
> rain, storms and mud we're having tonight. In honor of the occasion,
> I broke out a tiny little vial (or is that 'vile'?) that a chemist
> sent me. It contains 1 gram (at $100/gram) of technical grade 99.99%
> pure Capsaicin- used for calibrating the HPLC machines. After a
> little hemming and hawing (and yes- maybe a beer or two ;-) we broke
> out the toothpicks and gave it a whirl.
>
> Impressive, but not quite like you'd think. It truly wasn't as hot as
> you'd figure, but the burn went all the way from the lips to the
> lowest part of the stomach. Front, back, top, bottom- you name it.
> And it hung around awhile also :-) The consensus was the heat was
> tolerable- no problem there- but it was weird to have your stomach
> glow from a microscopic grain.
>
> And then we followed it up with the bread, Red Savina Habanero cheese,
> Chipotle Cheddar cheese, and habanero chocolates :-)
>
> The things we do :-P