Peppers of Mass Destruction!

KDR_11k

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005211088,00.html

Whoa, that gotta HURT! I wonder what happens if you use that as pepperspray...

Toomas

What next, a menthol candy thats so freezing that you get blisters?

MoP

Jalapenos is as far as I'll go on the pepper front. That's just insane.
I found out the hard way that, when cooking, if you're slicing peppers, don't go to scratch your eye afterwards. That really stings.

KDR_11k

BTW, peppersprays are rated 3 million, just for a comparison...

iMag

please note you're looking at the sun's website. a tabloid in the uk so I wouldn't take anything from there too seriously

MoP

Yeah, the BBC are pretty dodgy too. :P

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4530739.stm

Josh_Singh

yeah why dont we just start putting hydrochloric acid on our food.

Jes

Oh, OH... Cyanide!

KDR_11k

yeah why dont we just start putting hydrochloric acid on our food.

Because that actually burns away your flesh instead of merely making your nerves believe it does.

Ryno

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don't go to scratch your eye afterwards. That really stings.

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Or go take a leak without washing your fingers before hand. It'll heat up down there in a hurry right after you finish your business. Found out about that the hard way too.

Justin Meisse

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Or go take a leak without washing your fingers before hand. It'll heat up down there in a hurry right after you finish your business. Found out about that the hard way too.

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This is a pretty funny article involving penis vs. jalepeno

TomDunne

I love peppers! I'll eat them on all kinds of foods, perhaps a byproduct of my southern upbringing. A few years back, a buddy and I were getting into one of our annual chili cooking outings and decided to up the ante in our spicy batch (we do one 'wuss' chili and one 'manly' chili each time we cook); in a single five-quart crockpot of chili went four diced jalapenos, two diced cerranos, two diced habaneros and a splash of distilled habanero sauce called Yucatan Sunshine.

Alas, this proved to be my threshold for heat, as it took me 45 minutes, two glasses of milk and a half a loaf of bread just to get through one bowl. It was subsequently dubbed 'absolution chili', on the thought that eating a single bowl was so painful it would make up for any sins you'd committed that week. It was painful making it (noted above), it was painful eating it and, yes, it was painful on the way back out. Ouchies. I'm not sure how many Scovilles it takes to absolve you of murder, let's say, but I'm walking the straight and narrow just to avoid any more of that chili.

Once, when I was 11 and at a Chi-Chi's restaurant with my family, I thought I could be clever by taking two sliced jalapeno rings, placing them over my eyes and making funny faces. The faces probably were somewhat funny, as they were mostly scrunched up in various degrees of sobbing and agony as I was assisted into the restroom to rinse out the napalm where my eyeballs used to be. I am still reminded of that event to this day, most notably when my mother meets anyone I'm dating. The pains we must suffer for comedy...

MoP

Oh, man, Vermilion... that "jalapenos over the eyes" story is great. I'm gonna have to try that sometime, if only for the re-telling value later on!

TomDunne

I gather that it's much funnier if you can get someone else to do it. Believe me, I was not amused at the time

Ryno

Never double up with serranos AND habaneros, Verm. I made that mistake once in a batch of salsa. Only I could eat it, and it was tough even for me. I think I ended up having to make another batch and blend the two, and it was still smokin' hot!