Re: [CH] Regional food/Seedlings/Tabasco challenge
danceswithcarp (dcombs@bloomington.in.us)
Sun, 27 Feb 2000 16:42:54 -0500
From: "Virginia H. Dimond" <dimondcn@enteract.com>
> Several years ago, Cecil Adams in his The Straight Dope column, published
a
> letter from a guy who had accepted a bet to drink an entire bottle of
> Tabasco -- I assume the standard, 2 oz. size. He wrote to inquire whether
> he'd do any harm to himself. Cecil told him he'd probably end up with a
> mile chemical burn down his esophagus.
>
> The thing is, I'm pretty sure that when I'm at the most heat-tolerant
phase
> of my tolerance cycle, I could drink a bottle of Tabasco without too much
> trouble. From the way some of you talk, I imagine you could drink a
bottle
> even when you're not especially heat-tolerant.
Anyone could dirnk a bottle of Tabasco and not get a "chemical burn."
Capsacian only stimulates the nerves into believing they've been burned,
they are not actually burned. Once you understand the pain is only a mimic
of real pain, then you become a bonafide:
CHILE ZEN-MASTER
carp