Spicy food

[Brandon's Impotent Rage]

I really, REALLY love spicy food. I learned that, if you want to be able to appreciate the cuisines of the world, you have to build up a certain level of spice tolerance. There are many cultures where spicy food is the standard...places like India, North Africa, etc.

So I wanna know who else here is crazy for hot food. What's the spiciest thing you've ever eaten?

[Bala Perdida]

I'm of Mexican decent, so like it or not I eat spices a lot. :D
Anyways, the spiciest thing I've ever had was some sauce that came with some tacos I got off a kart in front of my local licor store. It was a habanero sauce. Tasted like pure extract or something. I hate plane milk, but after stupidly washing my taco in it I had to chug that shit down.

[Cliff Paul]

The first time I had Indian food I had some kind of Lamb Curry from a restaurant. It literally tasted inhaling smoke from a fire.

[BIXX]

I remember the first time I ate something that I thought was too hot. On doritos certain chips will have more flavor and my dad and I would always kinda brag to each other about the flavoring (idk why I was little and stupid) and once I got a chip that was was caked in that flavoring shit. To screw with me my dad grabbed it out of my hand and ate it. He then went and grabbed a chip without my knowing and took it to the kitchen, pouring an obscene amount of cayenne pepper on it. He then palmed it and pretended to pull it out of the bag, saying "DUDE, LOOK" and making it easy for me to grab it, which I did. I ate it and my life was ruined.

This isn't the only strange food story regarding my dad and I.

[Os Cangaceiros]

I've been known to enjoy capsaicin as well

[Ethics Gradient, Traitor For All Ages]

Yeah mine is probably a goat curry from a local indian place. Normally things labeled "spicy" actually mean "spicy in the opinion of white people" so I always ask for extra extra spicy. This thing shows up, I dig in and my eyes immediately feel like they're turning into liquid it was so fucking hot. Pretty good though.

[Crabbensmasher]

I was dating an indian girl at the time and she suggested going to an indian restaurant which was pretty authentic that i had never even heard of (me being a white suburbs kid).

I was kind of bragging about being good with spicy food and she dared me to try the spiciest thing on the menu

I asked the waiter what it was and she replied with "no, you don't want that". I persisted and after a while she kind of grinned like 'welll you asked for it'. When she went back into the kitchen I could swear I heard someone laughing their ass off behind the wall.

When I got the food I had maybe one somewhat enjoyable bite. By the second and third bite I had to drink half my glass of water to quench it.

I didnt want ot be rude by not eating the meal and I actually made a pact with myself to finish the whole thing (it was just a small curry dish). but I got absolutely no enjoyment out of any of it. Of course I forbade myself to drink and every other bite just put my mouth of fire even more. By the end of it my mouth was in agony, my lips were on fire (and continued to be for an hour afterwards) and even my nose had this weird burning sensation (and of course I had snot running everywhere). I swear my ears even felt like they were burning.

And that's a tale of me being young and arrogant

ALSO, a seperate incident - I once went to a wings night with my friends where the wings were notoriously mild. So this one night we decide to crank it up a notch and brought our own bottle of ghost pepper sauce (yeah, that one) to spread over the wings. Obviously its very hard to spread so little sauce on such small pieces of food, so we just used our fingers as little brushes to dab it on.

Fast forward about half an hour, and of course we're all guzzling water back because of the heat - suddenly I have to pee

When I pulled up to the urinal and unzipped my pants I had completely forgot about where my fingers were.

there was a loud HOLYSHIT OWW coming from the bathroom and I actually had to leave the restaurant early because I was in so much pain


Soo yeah I'm a dumb person.

[The Garbage Disposal Unit]

Yeah, a bunch of years ago me and my bestie (then my girlfriend) and I were having some people over for dinner. I disappeared to the washroom for what I assumed would be a quick leak. Suddenly, my bestie is wildly confused because she hears the shower turn on.

I wish I'd known at the time how magical Maalox is.