Hubby once absent-mindedly spread Chinese mustard on an egg roll – and popped it into his mouth before anybody could say anything. It melted the wax out of his ears! It’s really hard to say “Oh, you poor thing” and sound as if you mean it when you are laughing so hard you can hardly stand up.
My wife makes a mild chili and “booster”. Booster came about because her son mocked her chili’s spice level. A friend ate a spoonful of booster. Nothing he said can be printed. We did warn him: One bowl of chili, one spoonful of booster. Booster is 100% pureed hot peppers, seeds and all.
A Vietnamese student I once shared a kitchen with observed that, in general, the closer to the Equator a cuisine originates, the hotter it is. Even within a cuisine, I’ve noticed that my southern Swedish Johnson kin put allspice in their potato sausage and a mustard cream sauce on their lutefisk, while the more northerly Carlsons just use salt and pepper in the sausage and melted butter on the fish.
PoodleGroomer about 5 years ago
The whistling is the turbocharger of the salsa bulldozer clearing an exit path. Time to do the clinched butt in duress sprint to the bathrooms.
mccollunsky about 5 years ago
Guess, the spicy was not no sweat after all.
SHIVA about 5 years ago
He can’t handle anything spicier than catsup!!
karmakat01 about 5 years ago
it’s the warning to “CALL EMT STAT!” or at least his wife.
nosirrom about 5 years ago
Does smoke get in your eyes when it’s your mouth that’s on fire?
jpayne4040 about 5 years ago
Of course, “mild” is always open to interpretation.
Dani Rice about 5 years ago
Hubby once absent-mindedly spread Chinese mustard on an egg roll – and popped it into his mouth before anybody could say anything. It melted the wax out of his ears! It’s really hard to say “Oh, you poor thing” and sound as if you mean it when you are laughing so hard you can hardly stand up.
suv2000 about 5 years ago
david_42 about 5 years ago
My wife makes a mild chili and “booster”. Booster came about because her son mocked her chili’s spice level. A friend ate a spoonful of booster. Nothing he said can be printed. We did warn him: One bowl of chili, one spoonful of booster. Booster is 100% pureed hot peppers, seeds and all.
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member about 5 years ago
Spicey is subjective. I have long ago discovered that if my food hurts, I’m doing it wrong.
Storm F-1/4 about 5 years ago
If I wanted my food to cause me pain I would try to eat a rabid dog.
cuzinron47 about 5 years ago
I discovered hot in Texas meant HOT, not Oregon hot.
gcarlson about 5 years ago
Couple in front of me at a farmer’s market salsa stand: “If I can taste it, it’s too hot for her.”
gcarlson about 5 years ago
A Vietnamese student I once shared a kitchen with observed that, in general, the closer to the Equator a cuisine originates, the hotter it is. Even within a cuisine, I’ve noticed that my southern Swedish Johnson kin put allspice in their potato sausage and a mustard cream sauce on their lutefisk, while the more northerly Carlsons just use salt and pepper in the sausage and melted butter on the fish.
Holilubillkori Premium Member about 5 years ago
sperry532 about 5 years ago
I’ve never really understood chili macho. Why eat something that is so hot that you can’t taste the flavors? Give me flavor over flame any time.
JP Steve Premium Member about 5 years ago
I’m starting to think I wouldn’t like that restaurant…
craigwestlake about 5 years ago
The only sure way to tell if it’s hot enough is to eat some and see if your breath can peel the laminate off the cafe table…
Lyons Group, Inc. about 5 years ago
Liar!