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12 Responses to “Let’s call it what it is…”

1. King Steve Says:
   
   January 16th, 2008 at 1:07 am

   Poo fire. Hahaha.

   I love eating that hot shit and it ALWAYS makes me pay. Bastards….

   
   
2. Joe Drinker Says:
   
   January 16th, 2008 at 8:06 am

   Exactly…and without fail, I fall for it every time.

   Case in point. Not too long ago my wife had an evening class, and being on my own for dinner I decided I was going to have myself a man’s night, which really amounted to me getting Thai takeout, some cold beers and watching a Ghost Hunters marathon (I know, I know, but wait ’till you hit your thirties. Guy’s night means something else entirely).

   At the Thai place, after I placed my order for Panang Beef, the guy asked me how hot I wanted it - on a scale of one to ten. He said most people are okay up to about seven, and then it starts to get “quite hot.” Well, there may not be any strippers or drugs at my man night, but dammit there will be spicy food. I laughed and told him to give me a ten. He rolled his eyes like he knew something I didn’t but wrote it that way.

   In the car the smell alone was burning my eyes to the point of tears…by the time I got home I was pretty sure the stuff was eating through the box. Something tells me the chef was teaching me a lesson, but that’s just me. I opened up a beer (not a good choice to wash down any type of curry dish, I’ve learned), scooped myself out a big bowl of the stuff and went to town.

   While the food tasted fantastic, the pain incurred while eating it was only eclipsed by my, uh, let’s say “experience” the next morning.

   And of course I’ll do it again!

   
   
3. Jason Says:
   
   January 16th, 2008 at 9:44 am

   Only once in my life have I ever eaten anything hot enough to actually cause pain, and that was some hot wings at a local wing/beer joint (Not Hooters). I asked for the hottest wings they had, as they advertised “The Hottest Wings in the World” or something like that.

   Yeah, it was pretty hot, even for me. The worst part was not the next morning, but later that night when I threw up from too much drinking. Imagine a thick coating of hot sauce in your sinuses, a place so confined within the skull that you just can’t get out the vile liquid that has been pre-mixed with bile no matter how much you evacuate your nose.

   
   
4. Joe Drinker Says:
   
   January 16th, 2008 at 9:49 am

   Ugh. That sounds miserable. And yet, strangely like the punchline of a “what did you expect” story.

   There was a place near my college that used to serve Honey, BBQ, Medium, Hot, and then Death wings. We used to eat the death ones just because we could stomach them, but they tasted like crap…all fire, no flavor. We weren’t really even sure they were chicken at all.

   
   
5. Secret Agent Mama Says:
   
   January 17th, 2008 at 5:13 am

   There’s this place in Buffalo, NY (called “Duffs”) that makes THE. HOTTEST. WINGS. EVER. This blogpost made me crave some really hot ones. Thanks Joe. It’s only 7:13 and I’m craving Poo Fire Wings. LOL

   
   
6. MyStarbucks Says:
   
   January 17th, 2008 at 5:45 am

   “poo fire” I have never heard that one. Very funny.

   I really don’t do spicy food. It makes my nose run.

   
   
7. Kris Says:
   
   January 17th, 2008 at 12:33 pm

   I used to buy this hot sauce called “Atomic Fire Sauce”. The shit actually had a health warning on the label to only use 1 drop at a time. Ofcourse I was feeling especially macho the first time I tried this and thought “Bah, labels don’t tell me what to do”. I don’t know how much I dumped in, but suffice to say, it was enough to scorch my toilet bowl. Black ring and everything. Not a pretty sight. But yes, I would probably do it again.

   
   
8. Babychaos Says:
   
   January 17th, 2008 at 12:53 pm

   This made me guffaw hugely!

   Sadly I am a total, irredeemable poo fire addict. As a student I used to take my donner kebab (something British - domesticated from Turkey - and frankly, disgusting… another of my self destructive food loves, but I digress). Anyway, these days, I no longer eat quite as many kebabe but I still buy industrial strength chilli sauce from a trader at my local market who makes it specially and yes I ladle it onto everything. I even add it to ketchup to eat with sausages because lovely though Mr Heinz’s concoction is, it’s just not hot enough… I always rue my actions the next day but strangely, I never learn.

   Great stuff a real cracker.

   Cheers

   BC

   
   
9. Babychaos Says:
   
   January 17th, 2008 at 12:54 pm

   Ooo I missed out the bit where I was supposed to say I took my kebabs with hot chili sauce, much to the discomfort of my friends….

   Cheers

   (again)

   BC

   
   
10. Joe Drinker Says:
    
    January 17th, 2008 at 2:29 pm

    Starbucks - I read your comment at 5:45 this morning and I was craving them too. The power of suggestion, I guess…

    Kris!! Ha ha…that was definitely more information than I expected to see in the comments section. That made me really laugh. I guess it was at your expense, so sorry about that. But that was funny.

    Hey BC, I’m sure the bun in the oven will come out with an affinity for the spicy food… or the first words will be “WTF were you thinking?!?”

    This just goes to show those in my circle really like it hot.

    Cheers,

    Joe

    
    
11. Romi Says:
    
    January 21st, 2008 at 8:30 pm

    your illustrations are fantastic! But after hearing about the fact that King Steve gets
    “poo-fire”, I’m a little disturbed…

    
    
12. Joe Drinker Says:
    
    January 23rd, 2008 at 10:02 am

    Me too. But only because I feel his pain.

    
    

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