The HOT sauce thread, share your experiences.

[MetalHead]

I was inspired to start this thread by some current thread in the Political Zone.
It's about hot sauce encounters/mistakes we have made.
I'll share mine.
Back in 1998,I moved to Grand Rapids,MI.
I worked close to a place called "Dallas Texas BBQ" on Byron Center St.
They sold good stuff there,it was a hole in the wall kinda place,really small,but the pulled pork sandwich and their chili were really good.
One day,I stopped by get some chili during my lunch hour.
It was really cold so I figured out some hot chili would warm me up good.
I bought the chili and decided to up the ante by putting some Dave's Insanity Gourmet sauce in it.
As I was applying the sauce to my chili,the lady at the check out told me,"I hope you know what you are doing"...as I looked at the posters for said sauce claiming that their product could strip waxed floors and degrease your driveway.
That lady was right.I did not know what I was in for.
I swear it felt like a grenade went off in my mouth.
That first bite of magma set my internal fire alarm off made the water cooler 3 feet away seem like a marathon.
This stuff is not for human consumption,this was a weapon of revenge.
I tried everything at my avail,ice cubes,milk....no dice.
This was a judgement on bad judgement.
After a couple of hours my taste buds recovered from that nuclear blast I have laid upon them as if they were my worst enemy.
It was painful.
Later on I studied hot sauces and discovered my experience was a mere encounter with a light weight.
Not tabasco,but Tabasco on steroids.
Look up the strongest sauces out there,Learn about the 3am,5am,The Source...serious stuff.

 

[CF74]

Sauces like that are actually supposed to be used for large amounts of gumbo, soups, etc. I heard of a similar story about "Da Bomb."

http://www.hotsauceworld.com/hothotsaucto.html

 

[Hostile]

I lived for a while in North Carolina. One of my friends out there was a dude from Australia. Nice guy, very naive. His name was Reynard. The other two guys were Matt and Todd. A group of 4 of us went to a Mexican Restaurant in Charlotte that was called Chi Chi's. They started us off with chips and salsa. There were two salsas, a hot and a mild.

Well, from my perspective the hot was kind of mild. So I asked the waiter if they had anything hotter. He said they did but no one could eat it. I told him I wanted it.

They brought it out and it was hotter than their other stuff but I still didn't think it was super hot.

Matt and Todd gave the super hot sauce a try and couldn't hack it. The waiter said he had tried it in the back and it killed him. Reynard had never eaten Mexican food in his life. The mild salsa was tearing him up.

So he asked what the difference was between the mild and the super hot. I said, "this is spicier."

He said, "spice? I like that." And dipped a chip in and got a lot. He took a bite and from there it was like out of the cartoons.

I should tell you that Reynard was a very pale skinned guy with sandy red hair. He turned really red. You couldn't tell where his hair ended and his skin began. Sweat was breaking out on his forehead. Tears streaming down his cheeks. Smoke out of his ears. Flames out of his mouth.

He grabbed the pitcher of water on the table and chugged it. Water was sloshing out of the sides of the pitcher drenching his shirt.

Matt, Todd, and I were dying.

Naturally water does not help. He was in serious trouble. In between sobs of pain he asked, "how do you eat that?"

Two weeks later he had me try vegemite and I asked the same question. Gag.

 

[Avaj]

I needed a good laugh and both of those stories gave it to me :laugh2:

 

[MetalHead]

I know this guy named Abel.
He played guitar in one metal band I was a member of back in the 80's.
This was in Dominican Republic,I grew up down there.
One day after rehearsals he headed out to eat,drink a couple of cold ones and just hang out.
We went to "El Taquito Norteno",a famed open air Mexican joint in Santo Domingo.
We started talking and daring each other about who would eat El Taquito's Fire Burrito.
Abel stepped up to the challenge.
We put couple of coins together and got the burrito for him.
Ever seen a man shedding a tear while eating?..that was Abel.
He claimed, he was ok.....he didn't finish the burrito.
We tried a bit of it...it was so hot we would not even dare to give it to some beggar kids who roam the streets down there begging for food...it would have been inhumane.

 

[MetalHead]

I needed a good laugh and both of those stories gave it to me :laugh2:

Glad we could help.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

I lived for a while in North Carolina. One of my friends out there was a dude from Australia. Nice guy, very naive. His name was Reynard. The other two guys were Matt and Todd. A group of 4 of us went to a Mexican Restaurant in Charlotte that was called Chi Chi's. They started us off with chips and salsa. There were two salsas, a hot and a mild.

Well, from my perspective the hot was kind of mild. So I asked the waiter if they had anything hotter. He said they did but no one could eat it. I told him I wanted it.

They brought it out and it was hotter than their other stuff but I still didn't think it was super hot.

Matt and Todd gave the super hot sauce a try and couldn't hack it. The waiter said he had tried it in the back and it killed him. Reynard had never eaten Mexican food in his life. The mild salsa was tearing him up.

So he asked what the difference was between the mild and the super hot. I said, "this is spicier."

He said, "spice? I like that." And dipped a chip in and got a lot. He took a bite and from there it was like out of the cartoons.

I should tell you that Reynard was a very pale skinned guy with sandy red hair. He turned really red. You couldn't tell where his hair ended and his skin began. Sweat was breaking out on his forehead. Tears streaming down his cheeks. Smoke out of his ears. Flames out of his mouth.

He grabbed the pitcher of water on the table and chugged it. Water was sloshing out of the sides of the pitcher drenching his shirt.

Matt, Todd, and I were dying.

Naturally water does not help. He was in serious trouble. In between sobs of pain he asked, "how do you eat that?"

Two weeks later he had me try vegemite and I asked the same question. Gag.

I found that licking a napkin helps ease the pain

true story

 

[MetalHead]

Sauces like that are actually supposed to be used for large amounts of gumbo, soups, etc. I heard of a similar story about "Da Bomb."

http://www.hotsauceworld.com/hothotsaucto.html

Click on this link and die laughing.
Hottest hot sauces....

 

[Rack]

I lived for a while in North Carolina. One of my friends out there was a dude from Australia. Nice guy, very naive. His name was Reynard. The other two guys were Matt and Todd. A group of 4 of us went to a Mexican Restaurant in Charlotte that was called Chi Chi's. They started us off with chips and salsa. There were two salsas, a hot and a mild.

Well, from my perspective the hot was kind of mild. So I asked the waiter if they had anything hotter. He said they did but no one could eat it. I told him I wanted it.

They brought it out and it was hotter than their other stuff but I still didn't think it was super hot.

Matt and Todd gave the super hot sauce a try and couldn't hack it. The waiter said he had tried it in the back and it killed him. Reynard had never eaten Mexican food in his life. The mild salsa was tearing him up.

So he asked what the difference was between the mild and the super hot. I said, "this is spicier."

He said, "spice? I like that." And dipped a chip in and got a lot. He took a bite and from there it was like out of the cartoons.

I should tell you that Reynard was a very pale skinned guy with sandy red hair. He turned really red. You couldn't tell where his hair ended and his skin began. Sweat was breaking out on his forehead. Tears streaming down his cheeks. Smoke out of his ears. Flames out of his mouth.

He grabbed the pitcher of water on the table and chugged it. Water was sloshing out of the sides of the pitcher drenching his shirt.

Matt, Todd, and I were dying.

Naturally water does not help. He was in serious trouble. In between sobs of pain he asked, "how do you eat that?"

Two weeks later he had me try vegemite and I asked the same question. Gag.

I wonder if you're related to my wife? Her taste buds don't even work unless some kind of extremely spicy hot sauce is involved.

I like spicy food too, and I feel I can hold my own, but my wife kicks my arse in that department.

 

[Hostile]

In the early 2000's I entered a documentary in the Festival of the West. We had a booth set up and we were selling copies of it and all kinds of stuff. On the first day at lunchtime I wandered around and found a pulled pork BBQ that just smelled heavenly. I decided to grab lunch there.

So I asked the guy if he had a a hot BBQ sauce. he said that he did but it was "not for human consumption." I assured him that is what I wanted and he got a squirt bottle. He insisted that I try a tiny amount on my finger first.

It was hot. I mean serious hot. It was also delicious. I said that's what I wanted and he refused to put it on my sandwich because he did not want the liability. I squirted it on pretty thick. He said, "if you can seriously eat that I will give you a lemonade free."

I started eating and I am not kidding when I tell you it was all kinds of hot. But I can eat some hot food and I did so. Free lemonade.

So several people had to try the hot BBQ sauce because they had seen this exchange. He was selling lemonade like crazy. It was good lemonade too BTW.

I left to return to our booth and I had about half a sandwich left. My nephew Mike said it smelled wonderful and asked me for a bite. I gave him the last bite completely forgetting that it was hot BBQ sauce.

He said, "oh my gosh, that's mother hot." He downed about 3 Diet Cokes in a row and was in absolute agony. I was too busy laughing to care about how bad it was for him.

The next day I went back for another sandwich. The guy asked me to do it again because he had sold so much lemonade the day before. So I did. That time my sandwich and lemonade were free.

I kid you not, that stuff was hot.

 

[Hostile]

I wonder if you're related to my wife? Her taste buds don't even work unless some kind of extremely spicy hot sauce is involved.

I like spicy food too, and I feel I can hold my own, but my wife kicks my arse in that department.

I didn't realize you got married man. Congrats.

 

[Rack]

Thanks, Hos. Thought I mentioned it here before.


By the way, you do know there are some hot sauces that can and have killed people before, right? Can't remember the name of one sauce that had supposedly killed someone. Some people just can't handle it.

 

[Hostile]

Thanks, Hos. Thought I mentioned it here before.


By the way, you do know there are some hot sauces that can and have killed people before, right? Can't remember the name of one sauce that had supposedly killed someone. Some people just can't handle it.

The local rock station 96.1 KLPX was doing a promo about the hottest food item on earth. It supposedly is clear like water and has similar heat effects as Wasabi mustard which I happen to think is nasty hot. Supposedly you actually go blind for about 30 minutes because the behind the eyes sensation that those kinds of spices create is too intense for the eyes not to react.

They were offering $1000.00 for anyone to come try it and I wanted to so bad I can't even tell you. The bosses at the station shut the thing down though. They were afraid of being sued.

 

[Signals]

One day I was over at my moms house for a small Thanksgiving gathering.

Now, my brothers and I have always enjoyed spicy food. Fresh Jalapeños and other hot peppers and spicy sauces were never a real challenge for us.

For what ever reason the subject of who was the manliest man when it came to fresh peppers came up and my brother Scott's pride got the best of him.

Unfortunately for Scott, there was a fresh bright orange Habanero pepper in my moms crisper in the fridge that came up in the conversation.

We tried to stop him but he would have nothing to do with our warnings.

My brother Scott had obviously never tried fresh Habanero's.

One minute later he had lobbed off a big bite of this pepper, and after a few minutes of laughing at him we began to wonder if we were going to have rush him to the hospital.

I had never seen a person suffer from a pepper like that ever.

:laugh2:

 

[big dog cowboy]

Mrs. Big Dog and I went to one of those neighborhood restaurants after work one evening with friends from work. Mostly they were my friends from the sales dept. All single guys, all ex-jocks with super big ego's who could sell ice cubes to Eskimo's.

Of course this was a Mexican place which brought out chips and salsa to snack on. We order a few pitchers of beer, one thing leads to another and this poor kid (a newbie on the sales team) starts shooting off his mouth about liking hot sauce. Real hot sauce.

Well the story finishes with a similar ending to the one Hos treated us with. The one guy of the group who can actually handle very hot sauce challenged this new kid and before long the new kid was looking for some serious relief. The entire group just had tears literally rolling down their face. I wish someone would have had a camcorder. Truly one of those moments you don't ever forget and make you laugh out loud when you think out.

 

[Hostile]

I got hooked on hot when I was a kid. There was a man in my hometown named Dan who had actually fought against Pancho Villa's soldiers when he was just a boy. Dan could eat the hottest peppers I have ever seen.

His grandson Dewey (his real name), one of my neighbors named Craig, and I used to try and impress him. We would stand there and eat raw peppers just to entertain him. Dewey usually won our little contests but none of us could touch Dan.

I eat a lot hotter foods than I could in those days, but in my mind it still is not as hot as Dan could eat. It very well might be. I honestly don't know, because he is long gone. But even if I can eat hotter food than him I guarantee you I could never look as calm doing ti as he could.

He used to swear that you could not stir his homemade salsas with a wooden spoon because it would catch fire if dipped in the mixture. I believe him.

One of the coolest old guys I have ever met.

 

[Yeagermeister]

I used to work for a local fast food mexican chain called Pancho's, not the buffet chain. One day this guy comes up and orders a taco salad. He wanted to know if we had any hot sauce. The regular sauce we had was nothing more than spicy ketchup. I said yes but warned him it was very hot. If you opened the bottle you could smell this stuff across the room. He made the comment "I'm from Texas. I can handle it." He proceeds to drown his taco salad in this stuff with me warning him over and over and him repeating his boast. It took him about two minutes to come back and ask for a refill on his large soda. His face was blood red and he was sweating heavily. Poor guy was in some serious pain and I was and saying under my breath you dumbarse.

The hot sauce was I think Valentino brand.....I think.

 

[WarC]

My boss was born and raised in Hong Kong. He likes spicey food.

Well after one trip to Hong Kong he came into work one day carrying a little ziplock bag full of what looked like green peas. These little green, round, pea-sized podlets. He cut them in half and offered the little half pods to anyone in the department who wanted one. After a little debate a coworker tried one of the little halfs. After watching the reaction, everyone else turned them down.

He claimed that they were hotter than any jalapeno he's tried, I wouldn't argue against it. I've learned not to bet against him on stuff like that.

 

[WarC]

On a side note, I caution against adding hot jalapenos to a sandwich or other foodstuff after having recently downed liquor. Your stomach will never forgive you. I recently made that mistake.

 

[WarC]

I got hooked on hot when I was a kid. There was a man in my hometown named Dan who had actually fought against Pancho Villa's soldiers when he was just a boy.

I would LOVE to hear that story, thats pretty amazing.