Here's another article. A little different. Much longer, more lingo: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A52899-2004Aug9?language=printer a good quote: "McGowan's mother sauced her tongue when she was 3 and 4 years old, as punishment for telling fibs. "She told us the devil was dancing on our tongue, and she put a drop of Tabasco on it to drive him away," Dustin "May the sauce be with you!" > > From: "Jeff Schickowski" <jeff@chileheadsonline.com> > Date: 2004/08/10 Tue PM 12:42:46 GMT > To: "Chileheads" <chile-heads@globalgarden.com> > Subject: [CH] I've been REAL naughty! > > Where do I sign up... I've been REAL naughty! ;) > > Take a look at this article in the Washington Post. Apparently there is > a growing movement of parents who use hot sauce to punish their > children, kind of like the old soap in the mouth trick. > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52909-2004Aug9.html > > Why couldn't my parents have subscribed to this method? I'd have > misbehaved MUCH more often! > > Jeff > > Chileheadsonline.com > Where even the Devil Himself gets "The Ring Of Fire" >