Adam@Home by Rob Harrell for September 26, 2019

The whistling is the turbocharger of the salsa bulldozer clearing an exit path. Time to do the clinched butt in duress sprint to the bathrooms.

Guess, the spicy was not no sweat after all.

He can’t handle anything spicier than catsup!!

it’s the warning to “CALL EMT STAT!” or at least his wife.

Does smoke get in your eyes when it’s your mouth that’s on fire?

Of course, “mild” is always open to interpretation.

Hubby once absent-mindedly spread Chinese mustard on an egg roll – and popped it into his mouth before anybody could say anything. It melted the wax out of his ears! It’s really hard to say “Oh, you poor thing” and sound as if you mean it when you are laughing so hard you can hardly stand up.

food should not be painful to eat

My wife makes a mild chili and “booster”. Booster came about because her son mocked her chili’s spice level. A friend ate a spoonful of booster. Nothing he said can be printed. We did warn him: One bowl of chili, one spoonful of booster. Booster is 100% pureed hot peppers, seeds and all.

Spicey is subjective. I have long ago discovered that if my food hurts, I’m doing it wrong.

If I wanted my food to cause me pain I would try to eat a rabid dog.

I discovered hot in Texas meant HOT, not Oregon hot.

Couple in front of me at a farmer’s market salsa stand: “If I can taste it, it’s too hot for her.”

A Vietnamese student I once shared a kitchen with observed that, in general, the closer to the Equator a cuisine originates, the hotter it is. Even within a cuisine, I’ve noticed that my southern Swedish Johnson kin put allspice in their potato sausage and a mustard cream sauce on their lutefisk, while the more northerly Carlsons just use salt and pepper in the sausage and melted butter on the fish.

Good old Carolina Reaper… Lol

I’ve never really understood chili macho. Why eat something that is so hot that you can’t taste the flavors? Give me flavor over flame any time.

I’m starting to think I wouldn’t like that restaurant…

The only sure way to tell if it’s hot enough is to eat some and see if your breath can peel the laminate off the cafe table…

Liar!