titsmurf

I'm looking for a challenge here. What is the most gut-wrecking thing you've ever eaten? How bad was it?

lafemmefatale

My family is big on spicy foods so there was never any one particular experience that was 'gut wrenching', what is good is a stir fry of pork and jalapeno peppers [mostly pepper, not much pork] and that's a really refreshing dish.

It all depends on the peppers used. Although typically the preferred peppers are jalapeno or chili peppers, once we had a dish that was using those small bright yellow/orange peppers. Goodness gracious. the gates of hell opened in my mouth. Other peppers are flavourful, this was just a firy unquenchable pain. I must've eaten an entire tray of ice after dinner. The spiciness doesnt leak into anything else in the dish, it just stays ont he pepper itslef but once you eat it...geez...good luck.

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collide

Hooo baby. When I was visiting Hong Kong, my cousin took me to a noodle restaurant, and I ordered something with spicy hot oil, which didn't seem like much to me, because I have a high tolerance for spicy stuff, but even before I took one slirp, I couldn't stop coughing from just the fumes alone. When I tried to force down a few bites, it felt like someone lit my tongue on fire. It was so spicy that my eyes were watering and my nostrils were flaring. Just breathing too closely to the bowl of noodles would make me cough uncontrollably. It was so awesome.

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MacGnG

hot death sauce. couldn't taste anything else for hours

but now i can handle spicier foods

snicka

In Kirkland, Washington there is this BBQ place called Dixies BBQ which has really good pulled pork & beef sandwiches. The owner wanders around talking to the customers carrying a pot and a spoon of "The Man". Every once in a while you will hear, "You met 'The Man'?" and some poor schmuck will get a dab of that hot sauce on his sandwich. It looks like raspberry sauce but the seeds are actually from peppers and it is DEADLY.

I once got a full spoonful on my sandwich and after 3 or 4 bites, with my nose running and the hiccups coming every second or so I had to toss the rest of the sandwich because it was too deadly, and I LOVE spicy food. The Man is a deadly, deadly sauce.

Rodney

Nobody makes hotter food than the Thais do. You can get spicy food in a Thai restaurant here, but it's dumbed down. Back in Thailand, you can get food that will make you cry.

The hottest food I had there was in a student cafeteria, of all places. It was a tofu-vegetable stirfry in hot oil with some kind of peanut sauce that was also very spicy. It was so hot that my scalp began to bleed sweat after the first few bites. It was so hot that I could feel it burning not only in my mouth, but in my throat, my esophagus, my guts, and finally, on the way out. I've never been able to track the progress of a meal through my guts by "feel" before, or since!

I ate it all, though, because it was great.

absorbentishe

I used to work for this Japanese guy, and he'd have a party every year. One year, we were all tanked, he started making this "stuff", I don't even know how to describe it. Well, after it was cooked, he said put a dab of this hot sauce, I love spicy food, so I put way more than a dab on, and I thought I was going to breath fire, 10 minutes after ingesting. It didn't hit right away, but it hit oh so hard. Every time I see him know, he still laughs about it.

mrquackers

Dave's Insanity Sauce.

Not knowing what I was in for, I scooped a big ol' portion on a tortilla chip and gobbled it down. I was in a hot sauce store at the time and began to cry - when the guy at the counter saw what I had done, he got this REAL sympathetic look on his face and said "have as many chips as you need".

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cowlick

Mr. Jean and his evil sauce, The Man. That stuff will burn your eyes out. One time I showed up a Dixies and Jean wasn't around. We asked his daughter (the big girl at the counter) and she told us he was around back. We went around to one of the garage bays out back (Dixies is just an old dirty transmission shop) and Jean was pouring a huge bottle of Endorphin Rush into a pot. Rush indeed!

dimbulb

Sichuan "Ma La" steamboat.

If you don't know what steamboat is, its typically a pot of broth, simmering in the middle of the dining table, that you cook while you eat. Kinda like fondue.

Now, substitute the simmering yummy chicken/meat broth, with tongue numbing (actually... "Ma La" means "Numb Spicy") hot sauce.

boil all your food in this....mmmm...

They do have this wonderful herb tea at these restaurants though, that cool the fire thats burning in your mouth. Thats good business, if you ask me. First they sell you the poison, then they sell you the antidote....

JamesS

The "suicide" hot wings at my local place are fairly excruciating.

And then there was the habanero pepper eating contest I was unwitting talked into several years back..

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kalashnikov

My friend gave me a bottle of habanero tequila oil as a present. Now I love dipping bread in olive oil, really drenching it, but with this stuff, you barely poke it with a corner of bread and your mouth is completely on fire. It is not as much flavor as much as pure pain if you overdo it.
Thai food too - i had some curried fried rice, and I ordered a "hot"...wowee.

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motdakasha

I can't eat spicy foods, but around here, there is a fast food place called Cluck-U Chicken and they have varying degrees of spice. I believe one level of spice is called Nuclear. And I've heard they're quite spicy.

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Rodney

One thing I have to say for Indian food; it's the only spicy cuisine that serves the antidote as part of the meal. Raita -- a sort of yogurt-cucumber salad -- immediately douses the heat of the hottest curry. I recommend yogurt or milk as the ultimate "fire extinguisher" for hot food.

sipsake

Have to agree with Rodney on this one. There's a Thai couple that opened a restaurant down the street. Made the mistake of ordering my dish "dancing man hot".

I was lucky. The mucous gushing out my nose dowsed the fire burning on my lips.

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carnivore

I also have an experience with Thais. I went to school in central PA, and I figured that if I wanted hot food, I'd have to ask for it really, really, hot. The chef and owner happens to be a real Thai woman, and she grows her own peppers.

I got a beef salad with about 5 chopped peppers in it and a crown of whole ones on top. That thing hurt like hell, but damn was it tasty. I never heard the end of it from her, or the waitress. ahh.. good times...

philzilla

something in India. i couldn't exactly ask what is was afterwards. i could barely speak.

i had some seriously spicy noodles in Singapore too.

i can take my heat, i'm no wuss. i'd have to think twice before having either of those again

mmm... noodles *heads to the kitchen*

seizei

are you asian? me thinks they were messing with the white guy
lol

as for me, my first experience eating sushi got me the most painful food experience of my life. I wasn't too good with the chopsticks yet, and dropped the piece of california roll I was attempting to eat. I didn't notice that it had fallen on the cubic inch of wasabi garnishing my plate, and put it back into my mouth.

HOLY FREAKING CRAP that was intensely painful... my whole face started tingling, my eyes were watering, and I thought I was going to spit it all over the table.. thankfully, I forced it down, and as soon as it was swallowed, the pain went with it. not like the lingering hot pepper pain... that stays with you for awhile.

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seizei

Reminds me of my first sushi experience. A friend of mine's mother took us out for sushi. Well...Max had never had sushi before either. He and I both assumed that the little lump of green stuff must be some sort of mint paste. So, he picked it up with his chopsticks and popped it in his mouth.

I thought his eyes were going to bleed.

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tisonlyi

If we're talking REAL food (not just late 20th century posing and masocism fodder), stuff that there are native persons somewhere in the world who regularly eat the stuff, then my vote goes with a variety of curry that goes by the moniker of 'phal'.

Mindblowing, and you'll probably have to ask for it by name, they don't tend to show up on menus.

special mention to those carribean types for wolfing down raw scotch bonnet chilliis(?).

nuf respec'.

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dimbulb

description please.... i might be able to give you a name, since i'm from whereabouts......

collide

Who is this white guy that you speak of?
Most places don't make things as spicy as I like it, but I made an error in judgment when I ordered the extra spicy noodles. Good times indeed.

The best thing to do with wasabi is take a piece about the size of a pea (maybe less) and mix it well with some soy sauce. Dip the rolls in it and enjoy. If you accidentally get plain ol' wasabi all over your roll, pour some soy sauce and start diluting the stuff. Great for clearing the nostrils, that's for sure.

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dimbulb

ahhh... wasabi...
i've accidentally injested lumps of wasabi before, when a lump stuck to my food as i was dipping it into the soy sauce. A sight to behold.

But seriously, i love that stuff. Gotten my tolerance to a high enough level, so that i've won dares where i smear wasabi all over my tongue..... and hold it there for a while.... then slurp it all down... mmmmm.............

GoldenOuroboros

small bowl of that dipping chilli sauce at a japanese restaurant. It's like clear with chilli bits in it.. crazy.. was a dare.. everything went a lil strange after that...

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Cynthetiq

thai, indian, mexican... thems all good, it's not hot unless your earlobes sweat...

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God of Thunder

I eat a lot of hot food, but probably nothing as hot as what you guys are talking about. I need to try some of "The man" that was mentioned, just to say I have.

My hot story was at my weding reception. My friends and I are know for enjoying spicy food, so my sister found a brand of beer with a jalapeno pepper floating in it, She made a big production of lining us up on the dance floor and giving us each a bottle to drink.

It went down pretty smooth, not really that hot, but the next morning...

Let's just say it came out a LOT hotter than it went in.

She still like to remind of that when I'm eating hot food.

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netonic

Dixie's BBQ in Kirkland or in the Outfield of Safeco field

"The Man" is really hot. So hot it blistered my tongue when I ate it. It wasn't a pleasant experience going in or coming out.

However the bbq itself is good but if you go to Dixies you have to try "The Man" at least once.

yournamehere

Without a doubt, it was a bowl of chili in some hole-in-the-wall diner in Gallup, New mexico back in '74.

I can still taste it.

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seizei

lol exactly how I felt!

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splck

Nothing "gut wrenching"about hot food to me. I love Indian curries and Indonesian food.
Wasabi and horseradish are fantastic.
Straight up chilli peppers are good, but I don't feel the need to eat one on a dare. Just put them in my dish and I'll eat them...thank-you.

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Exodus

A buddy of mine makes some hot sauce stuff we call "Liquid Fire Of Death". Take something like a really fresh horseradish and multiply it buy 10. Way to hot for anything to eat.

frankx

Norfolk, VA - Calz nuclear wings. Had a horrid, burning feeling for a few days after just eating (and struggling with) two of them.

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MacGnG

blacken cajun shrimp alfredo, soo good but so spicy

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Nimbletoe

My mom brought home this spice from mexico that her friend down there makes. I never got around to asking what was in it, but dear god. I went to smell it, and not only were my eyes burning, but my nostrils were on fire for about an hour. I just don't understand why people would want to put themselves through that shit :P

cjvasco

Lamb Vindaloo ala level 10 spice at an Indian resturant i had never been to before, it was spicy goin in, but coming out, lordy lordy!

ktthequeen

In London, we went to a sushi place and I ordered a vegetarian meal.

I got my meal waaaaaaaay before everyone else and there was a small bit of wasabi on my plate. I had no idea what it was, and ate it. Yes, ALL OF IT IN ONE BITE.

I think I had 3 glasses of water in a minute. Burned sooo bad.