Place called Chicken & Oil, Bryan, Texas. Death Burger.
I survived.
--Bob
On Oct 26, 2011, at 3:57 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
>> I hope they have an ambulance on standby.
>
>
> There was a BBQ restaurant here in Des Moines (Big Daddy's) that had a
> challenge. You had to eat one of their sandwiches (not overly large) with a
> healthy dose of this amazingly brutal sauce on it. Miserably hot. The
> challenge required that you eat it (and not barf it up). If you succeeded,
> real money would pass hands. (mostly to a charity, but still).
>
> So, one day, I ate there. Tried about a tablespoon of the sauce on my
> sandwich. Not bad. Sweated a bit, but doing fine. (I wasn't doing the
> challenge, but determined that I could have done it without too much
> effort). Most people put about two drops on theirs and cry. I had a
> tablespoon. Well, not content to let me be too haughty, he runs into the
> kitchen and brings back another jar of something that looked like jelly.
> Some experimental stuff. I later learned it was made from the Trinidad
> Scorpion Pepper. When this guy asks you if you want to try an experiment and
> you are already wading through the lake of fire, the smart answer would be
> to say "no". But I had my pride (and curiousity) to deal with, so I said
> "sure". I try a drop of it and determined that it had an interesting flavor,
> but wasn't particularly hot, so I added a tablespoon of it on my sandwich.
> Unfortunately, there was a delay of about a minute before the flames kicked
> in. By that point it was far too late. The flames were of an entirely
> different type, so it wasn't that it was just hotter than it was before, but
> it was two distinct kinds of hot.
>
> I would have been better off drinking gasoline and swallowing a match.
>
> I did finish the sandwich, but was a bit green for the rest of the
> afternoon. He couldn't believe that I ate it and said I was the first person
> to eat more than a drop of the stuff. He was about to call the ambulance,
>
> I've taken a difference stance since then. After succeeding at eating it,
> I've determined that I successfully ate a hot sauce so hot that you could
> cut steal with it without a torch. As far as hot sauces are concerned, it is
> the top. No need to try for more. Been there, done that. Back to just normal
> stuff that tops out under a million Scovilles. No need to willingly subject
> myself to more torture. The problem with most of these sauces (Dave's
> instanity sauce is a well-known example of this) is that they use capsaicin
> extract to get the heat units up. Big Daddy's sauce got it directly from the
> pepper itself.
>
> I've contemplated the 70oz challenge, but the problem is that you have to
> eat all the other stuff too.
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