Post by The Canink on Dec 12, 2006 11:33:53 GMT 7
I'm known for being insanely fond of hot foods among my friends and family. This to the point that I regularly eat foods that leave 重庆人 gasping for breath. My family here is no exception to this. Although they like hot foods, the foods I eat are insane by their standards.
One thing I had delivered to me recently was a collection of hot sauces: mostly habanero-based ones (although one with cayenne instead). And I had two bottles of Dave's Insanity sent as well. This is pepper sauce supplemented by the same pepper extract used to make police pepper spray.... This stuff is so hot that I won't try it straight even on a dare. (Well, not again anyway.)
So, the wife decided she really liked the cayenne/cranberry sauce and she and my mother-in-law together polished off that bottle (with a little help from me) in a couple of days. They then went on to the various habanero sauces and liked them as well (albeit in smaller doses -- much smaller). It got to the stage that my breakfast 热干面 (a local noodle dish) started getting flavoured with distinctly non-Chinese spices.
Then this morning struck.
While I was still muddle-headed, my wife got me to open up a new bottle of hot sauce since the old habanero one was empty. I didn't take note of which bottle they had picked and just opened it for them without a warning. They then put the same amount in their bowl of noodles that they did with the habanero-based sauce. The problem is that this new sauce is about five times as hot.... Even I, when I saw the bottle later on, only put two drops in (supplementing with a third later on).
I know I'm a terrible human being for later finding my mother-in-law's red face and gasping breath terribly funny. I know I'm going to Hell. But damn was it hard to keep the grin off my face!
One thing I had delivered to me recently was a collection of hot sauces: mostly habanero-based ones (although one with cayenne instead). And I had two bottles of Dave's Insanity sent as well. This is pepper sauce supplemented by the same pepper extract used to make police pepper spray.... This stuff is so hot that I won't try it straight even on a dare. (Well, not again anyway.)
So, the wife decided she really liked the cayenne/cranberry sauce and she and my mother-in-law together polished off that bottle (with a little help from me) in a couple of days. They then went on to the various habanero sauces and liked them as well (albeit in smaller doses -- much smaller). It got to the stage that my breakfast 热干面 (a local noodle dish) started getting flavoured with distinctly non-Chinese spices.
Then this morning struck.
While I was still muddle-headed, my wife got me to open up a new bottle of hot sauce since the old habanero one was empty. I didn't take note of which bottle they had picked and just opened it for them without a warning. They then put the same amount in their bowl of noodles that they did with the habanero-based sauce. The problem is that this new sauce is about five times as hot.... Even I, when I saw the bottle later on, only put two drops in (supplementing with a third later on).
I know I'm a terrible human being for later finding my mother-in-law's red face and gasping breath terribly funny. I know I'm going to Hell. But damn was it hard to keep the grin off my face!
