Had my own "&*#%$ that burns!" moment this wee

[scullytoo]

I haven't posted here in awhile. Job takes up a lot of time. But hubby and I went to our monthly Chileheads gathering this past weekend, and I had one of those "&*#$@ this burns!" moments.

We had it at a restaurant this month, so when the appetizers arrived our group leader suggested I try the Martha's Private Stock sauce. So I did -- not much of a burn at all. Hubby says to me, "You should try the Spontaneous Combustion." I wasn't thinking -- for some reason in my head I thought it was going to be the same as the other sauce.

I put it on a chip, put it in my mouth, and as soon as I felt the burn tears were coming down my eyes, I was coughing, fanning my tongue, and asking for a LARGE glass of milk! I was feeling that burn for at LEAST an hour. By the time our food came I was still feeling it to the point where I had mixed Joe Perry's Boneyard Brew into my BBQ sauce for my chicken tenders and didn't feel the burn from THAT sauce at all.

Hubby was laughing, and our group leader was patting my shoulder in appreciation because I "moved up."

Hubby's been picking on me about trying "Da Bomb" next (our group leader has Ground Zero and The Final Answer in his collection). I keep giving him strange looks.

[DEFCON Creator]

Lori, perhaps you should share a nice little bottle of DEFCON ZERO. It'll be fun for you to watch the faces around you. Ask Tina, she still has a hole in her tongue.

[Tina Brooks]

John speaks true, Lori... I'm shopping around for a lovely little diamond stud to fill the hole!

DC... you're an evil, evil man. I rather like that in a person. :twisted:

[tinner666]

A friend just brought me a bottle of Spontanous Combustion. It was milder than Ground Zero, I thought. I'm getting quite a collection.

[sweatnspice]

Creator - When are you going to get Zero tested for it's official Scoville Rating?

[Tina Brooks]

Good question, John... When???

We've got a company up the road from here that does it for a couple of hundred CAD.

T

[DEFCON Creator]

A couple hundred CAD??? That's about $5 USD, :lol: Sorry, couldn't resist.

Anyway, I am curious as well, and it will be done in due time. Right now, I'm much more concerned with the big show in NM which is right around the corner. Actually, we seemed to have tweaked our ZERO process just a bit, and the stuff coming out seems to be a bit hotter.

[Tina Brooks]

Do I detect a note of nervousness coming from the crazy man, John???

T

[tinner666]

For pure extract, yours has a much better taste than some 'sauces' I've tried lately. Taste Final Answer some time. I've come to believe the heat is OK. :lol: The taste darn near killed me! :twisted:

[DEFCON Creator]

I wouldn't call it nervousness, just a little anxiety, which is quite healthy. Considering you've broken my wife's fragile little heart by choosing not to show up this year, I fully expect a bout of depression to set in, geez...THERE, enough of a guilt trip yet?

Anyway, I look forward to having this stuff tested, I'm curious as well.

[Tina Brooks]

Frank, I've eaten way too many extracts in my time and there are far too many sauces that actually use real peppers nowadays, that I simply don't have to actually eat extracts anymore.

The reason I dislike them so much is because of THAT taste... it always reminds me of diet coke.

There are only two extracts out there that I choose to voluntarily EVER put in my mouth again and one is by John, the crazy man, with the wife of the broken heart and the other is by Mike, our Canadian pal -- his is steam extracted.

Why... because neither of them is using chemical nail polish remover as their solvent.

That said...

John... Tell your wife that there are clean sheets on the guest bed and that the Spice Boys are waiting for the imminent arrival of your turkey fryer.

(while you're here I wanna jerk a turkey and deep fry it!) We'll have a veritable feast!!!

As a Unitarian and a recovering Catholic, btw, I don't do guilt anymore.

Make wifey's day, I didn't say we weren't making Albakerky, I said I didn't know yet. We're in the process of putting some serious cash into renovations up here and cash flow being what it is, a trip to the South, without guaranteed income to pay for it, may not be in the cards. That said, we're hoping to fly the Peppermaster down to make some contacts. We're launching the States this year, big time, whether anyone likes it or not, so it's not something we want to ignore... Worst case scenario... there is always Houston in September!

T

[DEFCON Creator]

Oh come now, to think, I might even buy you guys a couple beers, or frozen girlie drinks.

[Tina Brooks]

How about a couple of beer and some good tequila reposado??? I hear good tequila is cheap as all get out in Alberkerky.

T

[DEFCON Creator]

See? You just gave yourself the ultimate reason to show up now. Self-justification is best when served in a glass.

[sweatnspice]

A shot glass no doubt.

[Tina Brooks]

A shot glass is used when mixing drinks... We use beer glasses here.

I don't wonder there's so little alkyhol in US beer if you're drinking it out of such little teeny glasses. Sheesh!

T

[DEFCON Creator]

580 of them.

[Tina Brooks]

And you have the unmitigated gall to only offer me one as enticement... Sheesh.

[DEFCON Creator]

Wouldn't want to see you get tipsy. :doh:

[Tina Brooks]

With American beer, trust me, THAT's not about to happen!

lol

[DEFCON Creator]

Oooooh, do I detect a slight antipathy towards the notion? Hmmm, perhaps your misdirected aspersion towards American (hmmm, Canada is part of America, go figure) beer is nothing short of a misplaced denial in which a chink in your armor has been exposed. It stands to reason the abrupt and impetuous remarks you stated in your last response. It's ok though, you're among friends, we understand. Your response reveals just the opposite in which you attmpted for us to believe, and your well-meaning yet semi-hidden contriteness will not go unnoticed. Yawn...

[Cap'n Bones]

Hey Tina, try to get your hands on some Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Ale. Clocks in at almost 10% alky! This stuff will grow hair on your back! :beer:

[bubbaschili]

heyyyyy lets not go there...all my fantasies about tina she has no hair on her back. :oops:

[DEFCON Creator]

Hmmmm, this situation has posed an interesting conundrum. Mammals evolve to adapt to their environment, this is a fact. Now, if a species is to adapt to colder temperatures and survive, would this not mean they would grow more hair so as to conserve heat? Hmmmm, does this not mean Chewbacca was from Canada? :shock:

[Cap'n Bones]

I do actually think that Chewwy is a distant cousin to Bigfoot. They have been know to survive on eating just chickens, however, the recent scare of bird flu in Canada has encouraged the sasquatch like creatures to depend on Chiles, or Peppers in English, to nourish themselves until the bird flu has run its course. We may see a shortage of Peppers, as well as chickens, in the Great White North very soon. Just a thought!

[DEFCON Creator]

Hmmmm, if they have redirected their diet to just chilis, I dare say I don't think you'll be calling it the Great "White" North any longer, more like the Great "Brownish-Mudlike" North. Man, come to think of it, that's kind of nasty. So be it.

[Cap'n Bones]

Don't get me started on poopey talk! I'll just get wrong if I start...

[Tina Brooks]

Sasquatch on peppers:

http://www.pepperfire.ca/images/117-back-int.jpg

[Cap'n Bones]

WHOA! Bubba hide your eyes!!!

[Tina Brooks]

He thought he was having fantasies before?

[Cap'n Bones]

Tina, you are a mean woman! Mean, mean, mean...Bubba will never be the same!

[Tina Brooks]

My work here is done.

[bubbaschili]

again we need a drooling smiley icon

[DEFCON Creator]

I'm getting really bad feelings about this thread, and it's not gas.

[Tina Brooks]

That's just your wife hitting you.

[DEFCON Creator]

Nope, I'd be typing in soprano right now if that were the case.

[Tina Brooks]

lol, and Cap'n called ME "mean"?