Re: [CH] Good Eats

Brent Thompson (brent@hplbct.hpl.hp.com)
Mon, 16 Sep 2002 11:33:38 -0700

> He had some goofy concoction about tasters eating pure pepper mash and
> the numbers being determined by how many squirts of sugar water in the
> mouth it took to stop the burn.

I must say this conjures a very amusing image.  Yes, that does sound like
an entertaining show; and probably not even particularly less accurate than
anything else on TV.

I think it would be very difficult to find too many persons willing to do
this job as described above, though there are undoubtably a few on this
list who would volunteer for it.  Just imagine what a shock it would be for
some poor random incompletely-explained USA hire of 20 years ago, say, if
his first assignment were even serrano (mash), not to mention tabasco or
pequin or the dreaded habanero.

 ---   Brent