B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for December 30, 2010

The first in a long line of the See Spot Series

Texas Pickles

I’ve been there! Go for the BURN!!!

Beer works a whole lot better than toilet water!

^ The voice of experience???

Jalapeños are starter peppers, usually. Some are very hot, but most are just warmish. Serranos are reliably hotter, and habaneros are the choice for real heat.

My dog loves Mexican food..especially our home-made enchalada sauce (hot, hot, hot)

I bet he wishes he wasn’t Johnny on the spot.

Good Morning, Fellow Cave Dwellers.

See Spot steal a Naga Viper pepper See Spot spontaneously combust

Cayenne has a sweetness to it that makes for a truly great hot sauce. It’s not the heat so much as the salsa humidity (the other ingredients) that make a meal.

Mix water, jal and cay, boil for twenty minutes, let cool and you get pepper spray to keep down the bugs including Japanese beetles. Jerry Baker tip of the day. (Just be sure you boil it outside on the grill or with all the windows open or you won’t stop tearing for a very long time.)

Wolfie with blue lips?

Lol. I like Spot.

Spot is a wimp. We had a cat who ate a variety of peppers hotter than jalapenos. Xane_T, you have got that correct. I eat habaneros, but I have never tried the Naga Viper, the current record for hottest pepper, with an incredible 1,349,00 Scoville Units; the jalapeno has a mere 5,000+/- Scovilles

It has nothing to do with being tough or a wimp. There are some that have more taste buds than others and they are more sensitive to strong flavors (peppers or otherwise). I actually feel sorry for the ones who have less taste buds because they don’t enjoy the subtleties in food – they need a lot of extra spices and sauces to taste anything.

Aaah yes! There was Dick, Jane, Baby Sally, Spot and Puff. Wonder where they are now?

That can’t be good for his digestion. Spot Spot’s spots everywhere.

There are some disadvantages to being a supertaster. All artificial sweeteners and dairy taste like soap to me, and it’s hard to avoid them. But where many people’s tasting is black and white, I can taste a rainbow.

Mmmmm. And there lies an after taste. it’s not when it goes down. It’s when it’s been down. Uh oh!

I still like horseradish, and Chinese mustard as my heat spice of choice. At least you can drink a glass of water to make the heat go away.

I have never found any pepper that I liked—non including the mildest.

B.C. looks flushed.