Petrol

It does. I was handed a dessertspoonful of the stuff about ten years
back. My diaphragm went into spasm for about a half an hour. Took my
mind of the pain in my mouth, though.

 

We had an Indian chap join our team some years ago. Under the influence
of a mad Californian we'd go to the staff canteen armed with various
chilli sauces on any day anything spicy was on offer. We gave the Indian
of Insanity sauce admonishing him to be careful. His reply was along the
lines of a lifelong exposure to spice and nothing here in the UK was
going to bother him. So he scooped up a dollop [1] onto a chip and
proceeded to eat. I have never seen a person's eyes protrude so far our
of their sockets. He really did look like a cartoon character from the
Beano. I swear that vapours came out of his ears.

[1] about a quarter of a tea-spoon

 

How much?!??! You should have ended-up in A&E. By the way, how was the
"other end" for burns the next day?

 

#And it burns, burns, burns ...

 

I took a bottle of DIS along to a ukrm bbq, where I managed to get
roped into doing the cooking - so I didn't actually see that much of
the after-effects of somebody mistaking the DIS for the ketchup, or
being too damn arrogant to admit the mistake. A goodly blob was
applied to a bunned burger and a goodly bite of same taken in my view.

Much bellowing, rushing and crashing ensued. Much laughing by third
parties also ensued.

 

Stung? And it wasn't just the HEAT that hit me, but the way that my
throat seemed to swell and threaten to choke me... The dificulty with
breathing... The rapidity with which I sobered up... The loss of
vision as my eyes streamed...

 

Sounds about right. The mad Californian, Max, in the office had his
sister send a box assortment of sauces over. There are ones hotter that
DIS. Max thought that DIS was filed under "medium".

 

There's lots of hotter 'sauces':

http://www.chilliworld.com/FactFile/Scoville_Scale.asp

The heat rating goes up astronomically at the upper end - if 16million
SU is as hot as it is possible to be, DIS languishes with only 180,000
in the middle of the scale. However - DIS is a) the only one of these
sauces I've ever seen on the supermarket shelf and b) is inedibly hot
as a sauce. Stuff this hot is possible to use as a 'food additive'
but to scoff it as a dip could easily lead to damage, not just passing
discomfort.

 

We used to add about the volume of two match heads to an average serving
of gumbo/curry. Any more was a bit OTT. IIRC the label on DIS states 1
teaspoon per gallon of food item.

 

I've had Blair's 4am and while it was lovely on the way in, I wept as it
came out.

 

How are your ribs, btw?

 

Can't have been doing proper CPR, then.