What's the spiciest food you have ever eaten? Mine was chili, Brutal

[debm55]

[Walleye]

1. Wasabi mustard, I think

[debm55]

4. Thank you Walleye. Oh yes, wasabi mustard. I had it once. Never again.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Something with habanero pepper.

Choking fit

[debm55]

5. Thank you, no_hypocrisy. Yes, have never had it, but I heard about the heat factor.

[Ocelot II]

3. Thai food, some kind of curry.

I also had some salsa in Mexico, that looked like it was made of chopped tomatoes. But those weren't tomatoes, they were chili peppers, and damn that stuff was hot. The Thai curry was probably the most exciting, though. It made us all sweat profusely and eat the steamed rice as fast as we could. BTW, water doesn't help with extremely hot food, it makes it worse.

[debm55]

6. Thank you Ocelot II, I like Hot and spicy Chinese food. Never tried Thai. Thank you for the information on water.

Didn't know about the water.

[Ocelot II]

10. Most Chinese food is relatively bland, except for Sechuan, which has a little kick.

But that's not even close to Thai.

[mwmisses4289]

14. Milk or yogurt seem to best to cool the heat from spicy food.

[MIButterfly]

7. The last restaurant I worked in, they brought in extra hot chicken wings that would possibly be added to the menu.

Holy cow! I ate one and the entire right side of my face was on fire for 20 minutes! I couldn't drink enough water. Edited to add: I didn't know water was useless with spicy things. No wonder it didn't help!

They never did add them to the menu. I guess they were too hot for everybody.

[Ocelot II]

8. Water doesn't work on spicy food. Drink milk instead.

[MIButterfly]

11. I just saw that after I posted!

Thanks, Ocelot Il!

[stopdiggin]

9. some sort of Thai dish

flat out inedible.
With the words, "never again!" still ringing in my head.
Absolutely ridiculous!

[Eugene]

12. Szechuan chicken with red peppers

at a then-landmark but now-defunct Chinese restaurant north of Boston

[Kali]

13. I have had random green chiles that were almost inedible

including a pickled one that kept me awake all night as it traveled my digestive tract.

Fuego Takis are about the worst snack item I have eaten for spicy heat.

I have made some pretty spicy green chile pork, curry, and chili too.

[Freddie]

15. Friend made some kind of African stew

Extremely spicy, with some spices I’d never tasted before (or want to again). Her dog has a habit of circling the table asking for handouts. While serving this stew she warned us, “don’t give any of this to Sam!!” Sam was lucky.

[mwmisses4289]

16. A teeny, tiny bite of a carolina reaper pepper.

Coworker brought in some diffrent pepers, and we all tried tiny bites.

I enjoy spicy food, but i don't want it so spicy hot that all i taste is the heat, and not the food.

[TlalocW]

17. I've eaten hotter since then but my most memorable time...

Was my first time in Mexico during a high school interchange with a school in Puebla. We had gone to Teotihuacan and then a nearby restaurant built in a large cave. And we were served bread with bowls of red and green salsa. It was a hot day, and I wasn't in the mood for anything spicy, and all the girls from the Mexican side of the interchange were eating the green salsa so I thought, "Oh, it can't be that hot." Well, my sexism was burned out of me as I drained my drink and the water of the person who was sitting next to me, which of course made it worse.

But by the time I went back in college on a program through the Spanish department, the professor in charge if the program and I were having contests on who could eat tgeir breakfast tortillas with the most salsa verde.

[House of Roberts]

18. Something made with chicken from a Chinese place called Mei Wei.

Don't know what the dish was called, but my housemate said she couldn't eat it and would throw it out if I didn't want it. I made enough tea that I thought I could get through it, blotted off as much of the sauce as I could, and gave it a go. I got through it ok, and the tea kept me from combusting. I wouldn't have tried it if it hadn't been free.

[pandr32]

19. A friend asked me to taste her season's batch of habanero paste.

Before I knew it a spoon was shoved in my mouth. I couldn't breathe or talk. Pepper pastes are great if you take some and mix them into something, but not a teaspoonful of full concentration direct into the mouth.

[mike_c]

20. a plate of twice cooked pork

Fifty-ish years ago at a little hole in the wall Chinese takeout place in Virginia. I like spicy food, but that stuff was way too hot for my taste.

[Jrose]

21. Kung Pao chicken at a Manhattan Chinese restaurant...

The fire it set off in my mouth, heart and stomach, combined with the liters of water I drank with it, actually expelled my severe midwinter cough and cold within hours.

[Diamond_Dog]

22. Some spicy salsa at an outdoor food festival.

I don’t know what kind of peppers were in it, but it was called “Call 911.”

[EYESORE 9001]

23. A Carolina Reaper chili - naked

It was a bet, and although I won, my mind was unable to convince itself that my mouth was NOT on fire.

[rsdsharp]

24. My brothers chili. He'd trim out a chuck roast, cube it up,

brown it in oil, add water and habanero chilies and simmer for a few hours. The only flavor it had was HOT! It would take the top of your head off.

[JMCKUSICK]

25. I've had a whole little dick pepper once, Korean I was on fire for two hours

[stonecutter357]

26. Paqui one chip challenge !

[SheltieLover]

27. Some sort of Mexican hot pepper

As a teen, I worked at a Pondreosa steakhouse. A very friendly Mexican family used to come through the line a lot and the father offered me a super hot pepper.

Good gawd, I didn't think my mouth would ever stop burning! LOL

[Botany]

28. A pepper I grew a Habanero.

My son just smelled it and it burned the inside of his nose and a little piece of it dropped me
to the ground. I have had Jamaican Red Hats and Red Thai peppers that were not as hot.
BTW I grow and use Serrano peppers all the time.

[enid602]

29. Smoke

Still in Argentina for their winter. A week ago we went to Sushi Pop for sushi. There were three of what looked like green grapes on my plate. I gobbled them down whole . They were wasabi. I think I had smoke coming out of my ears.

[Dorothy V]

30. My own Salsa Roja, made to Hubby's specs.

He and Son loved it. Knowing what was in it - habaneros and cayennes, I still made the mistake of tasting it once. Stupid, Stupid, Stupid me! I can stand some fire, but damn!

[Polly Hennessey]

31. Fresh horseradish while dining at a German restaurant.

I couldn’t breathe. My husband was there to cheer me on. I still love horseradish, just not raw.

[justaprogressive]

32. Indian food the way the locals eat it, is the hottest cuisine in the world.

been to Indian restaurants dozens of times

I've fixed the pre-packaged foil pouches 100's of times (Rajma Masala is really toasty!)

I keep about 6 Indian chutneys:
Onion
Mint
Tamarind & Date
& Coriander are some of my favorites...

...I can eat an 8 (out of ten) but prefer a 7....

[Paladin]

33. One bite of a small green Thai chili pepper.

It felt like somebody was holding an active flamethrower to my mouth. I like spicy foods, but damn...

[lark]

34. I bit into a jalapeno my dad has been eating and thought I had died and gone to hell!

I learned my lesson QUICK! Luckily, mom knew that I should drink milk to stop the burning - OMG!

[Elessar Zappa]

35. Some Thai dish that I can't remember.

Hi Deb!