[CH] first day on board
Daryl F. Bernard (dbernard@svsu.edu)
Wed, 21 Jan 1998 12:36:46 -0500 (EST)
Just wanted to introduce myself. I found this list while scooten' around
the web yesterday looking for sites about chile peppers, hot sauces, etc.
The reason my interest was piqued was because of some sauces a co-worker
brought in for me to taste yesterday. I have always liked hot foods,
especially mexican & cajun type hot stuff. So he brings in four sauces
for me to try: some Jamaican Hot Sauce batch #114 ("pain is good"),
Blair's Death, Blair's After Death, and Blair's Sudden Death (the hottest
of the four, he tells me). Well, I put a generous helping of Death on my
burrito for lunch, but not finding this very stimulating, I dipped the
burrito in the Jamaican suace before each bite. Nice and zesty.
Then came the real challenge. During an office meeting, he sets the four
sauces in front of me and expects me to try them in front of all these
co-workers. Well, since I had already had the J and Death, I decided to
go for it all, filled a teaspoon with Sudden Death, dipped my finger in
and licked the sauce off my finger. A nice sensation, so I finished the
spoon full of sauce. The it began to hit me. Then it began to REALLY hit
me! What an incredible feeling. Tears of (joy?) began to escape from the
corners of my eyes. My head became warm, and seemed to float above my
shoulders. The entire inside of my mouth and lips were flaming. As I
swallowed, the saliva carried the sensation down my esophogas to my
stomach, warming my chest and abdomen. WOW! As much as I like hot stuff,
this was hotter than anything I had ever experienced. As the fiery
sensation subsided in my mouth, a euphoria overtook me. I hated to admit
it, but I found myself wanting to dip into the sauce again. Better
judgement prevailed. I simply took a spoonful of After Death back to my
office to dip into the remainder of the afternoon. It was exhilarating.
My office mates simply could not understand.
My question is this: is Blair's Sudden Death considered a very hot sauce
by connisuiers? And, what do you people do with this sauce, really?
Looking forward to following the chile threads on this list. Nobody else
understands the delight I take in this sensation.
Daryl