On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Angel R. Rivera wrote: > my father who has always been a big chile eater has > started telling me at the age of 10 that coffee will help > a lot more than water will. 37 years later i still think it > is true. -ar Would that be black coffee, or coffee with cream and sugar? Watch that dairy stuff. :-) FWIW, I'm told that carbonated soda makes the burn worse rather than helping. When I was trying out some of the Hotest Hot sauces at the Pig 'n' Pepper last year, I think I tried Da Bomb. Does it have a clove taste to it? Whatever I tried did. Anyway, it didn't seem that hot, so I tried more. Big error!!! The heat takes time and builds. Yougurt helped some, but not much. It wasn't killing, I'm still here, right, but it took 5 - 10 minutes to subside. I'm told I became a bit flushed. :-) Chuck Demas Needham, Mass. Eat Healthy | _ _ | Nothing would be done at all, Stay Fit | @ @ | If a man waited to do it so well, Die Anyway | v | That no one could find fault with it. demas@tiac.net | \___/ | http://www.tiac.net/users/demas