Emergency Services Called at school after 40 students eat one of the worlds hottest peppers

[catbarf]

[QUOTE=FreakyMe;51001720]To experience the maximum threshold, so you can stop sweating the small stuff.[/QUOTE]

I thought that this was pretty cool until I learned that developing a tolerance for spicy food is literally your body turning off the associated test receptors. 'I've built up the ability to tolerate spicy food' sounds a lot less impressive when you rephrase it as 'my body has become physically incapable of tasting spicy foods, so I can eat really spicy things as be fine'.

I have a cache of Carolina Reapers in the cupboard. I just used two to infuse some gin along with a lime, and now have some wonderfully hot chili gin that I mix with tonic water. I love spicy food, but all things in moderation. Food that is spicy just for the sake of being spicy is kind of lame IMO.

[😹 WHO DID THIS]

[QUOTE=SonicHitman;51003066]you think its interesting and cool to eat these super hot peppers

but no one thinks past the symptoms of your mouth burning

think of the pain and the fiery dump you'll have

that's the real discomfort of doing stuff like this[/QUOTE]
Same could be said about pot brownies.

The high you get is a pretty amazing experience, but after it wears off you feel absolutely awful for a while (until you wake up next morning).

[Fourier]

[QUOTE=catbarf;51005892]I thought that this was pretty cool until I learned that developing a tolerance for spicy food is literally your body turning off the associated test receptors. 'I've built up the ability to tolerate spicy food' sounds a lot less impressive when you rephrase it as 'my body has become physically incapable of tasting spicy foods, so I can eat really spicy things as be fine'.
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Literary everything will disable your receptors, if you use too much.. also you lose receptors as you age, also you lose receptors every puberty, etc etc

[Niteshifter]

Hottest I've had was a habanero and that got me fucked up for the rest of the night. I can't imagine eating a bhut jolokia.

[Duckmaster]

[QUOTE=El Burro;51003394]This is my problem. I absolutely adore spicy food and I've eaten enough that I have a pretty decent heat tolerance, but sometimes asking for the hottest thing on the menu generally isn't the best idea.

I had a Trinidad Scorpion chili pizza at a restaurant a few months back. It must have been about short of 1 million scovilles, it wasn't massively difficult to eat given the heat gets to a point your mouth might as well be anaesthetised. But about half an hour later my stomach was doing fucking back flips and I had to walk my ass away from some sweet live Blues so I could groan myself into a coma at home. I won't even describe the afterburn, I don't usually pray on the toilet but I made an exception that day.[/QUOTE]

I have a plant of those things, and let me tell you never ever try to make a omelette with them, because it essentially fills the entire house with tear gas.

[BlueFlytrap]

[QUOTE=RenegadeCop;51006780]Isn't it just your taste buds being chemically burnt off?

Same thing happens when you eat hot soup, and you have to deal with a sandpaper tongue until it sheds and regrows the tongue skin.[/QUOTE]

Nah. Taste runs off a different set of nerves than what you use to sense temperature and pain.

You can have your olfactory nerve severed and still 'taste' spicy foods because of it. If only because you still feel the same level of pain or discomfort.

[BrickInTheHead]

[QUOTE=MaximLaHaxim;51001648]Why would you eat one of those peppers voluntarily.[/QUOTE]

having eaten a bhut jolokia i can say it's basically an out of body experience

that said i would never recommend another human being eat one for it is an incredibly unpleasant (yet very thrilling) experience