MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: Um, what was it?

> I have, that shit is flippin' HOT! Good stuff though.

Same here. I was introduced to the "hot-pepper scene" back when I was in high school. (So that would be around the mid to late 1990's). I loved buffalo wings, Tabasco sauce, jalapeÃ±os, anything that was hot. Well, at least that I knew of. Heh. So my future brother-in-law was over the house and had a little orange pepper that was the size of a small plum tomato, and had a good smell to it. He knew I liked hot peppers and gave it to me saying that this one was really hot. In my past, I had been told that JalapeÃ±os were hot so I took the pepper and bit about 3/4 of it into my mouth and started chewing it. Right then and there, I knew that I had just bitten off more than I could handle. The heat level immediately rose to where snot was liquefied and pouring out of my nose, while my eyes were watering like crazy. My heart rate rose to an insane level and I was begging for some milk. On that day, I was introduced to the habanero pepper.

After that night, I started to eat small bits of the habanero at a time in order to build up a tolerance. I love the way the pepper taste and think that of all the peppers out there, it has the best taste. The problem is that you can't use a lot of them to get the bulk flavor that you want without having the heat it provides completely overwhelm what it is that you're making. I've read about a grower in the UK who genetically engineered a variety of the pepper with almost no heat, but all the flavor. I'd love to get some samples of that and grow my own so I could put them on pizzas, into gravies, hell even in oatmeal!

I also eventually found out about Dave's Insanity Sauce, and bought a bottle of his Private Reserve. Comes in a wooden "casket" and is insanely hot. It's so hot that there's no flavor to it because a drop from it on your tongue will pretty much shut off your taste buds and your brain. lol. I bought the bottle in 1997 and still have 7/8th of the bottle left. I doubt it will ever go bad since it's basically a thick pepper spray.

Sadly, my ability to enjoy hot foods has left me. Over the past 5 or 6 years, I started to get horrific heartburn when I'd eat hot foods, and start having irregular heartbeats from it. Not to mention that for the next half hour after eating it, it feels like I got donkey punched in the stomach. The next day after eating it, taking a shit feels like getting a prostate exam from Wolverine. So my days of eating hot stuff is over. While my brain never stopped liking it, my GI tract certainly has.

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