Dave's Insanity Sauce

[Comte Michel]

You're very welcome

I just remembered a scientific conference I went to at the Commonwealth Institute in London - they had a sort of welcome buffet and there were these funny triangular sort of 3 dimensional little crunchy parcels of something vaguely meaty, just about a single mouthful in size. They tasted a bit bland. At first. About 30 seconds later I broke out in a sweat, my lips went numb and my eyes nearly burst out of their sockets. I had to drink so much lager to get rid of the burning, and the vile aftertaste, that I slept most of the way through the afternoon lectures.

Not hot, but the most ghastly thing I ever tasted, was a surprise anchovy in the middle of a pizza that wasn't supposed to have anchovies in it. On top of 5 or 6 pints of beer. Not on top for long though. Ejected forcibly against the pizzeria's toilet wall after a very brisk dash. Serves them right.

[Cubster]

I've never seen the point of lime pickle being served in a restaurant for humans. Surely that should be reserved as an emergency emetic for dogs that have swallowed your car keys or something.

[Big Al]

I can't understand why the average UK guy feels it's a demonstration of his manhood to eat insanely hot food. There used to be a faction in our IT department that insisted on sprinkling chopped chilis on the canteen curry then competing to see who could eat it fastest. You didn't visit these guys in the afternoons.

It isn't just the UK. Over in South Africa blokes used to take chillis from a bush growing outside and rub them over the end of pencils. Nobody would want to admit that they were affected, which meant that the pranksters would rub more on the end next time. It would get ridiculously out of hand.

[Big Al]

I've never seen the point of lime pickle being served in a restaurant for humans. Surely that should be reserved as an emergency emetic for dogs that have swallowed your car keys or something.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTnZhXgbVbk

[clivethecelt]

Excellent tale, Mr C. I recall the line in "Porridge" where Mackay is testing the curry, and Fletcher remarks to Godber that he (Mackay) thinks he's an expert on curry 'cos of where he was stationed in the Army. Bradford.
Which brings me to a little tale ... I was at uni in that city of eastern delight, and developed no small liking for hot curries ... so much so that I would make my own curry paste from ingredients available in the local Asian shops. I brought some home in a jar one holiday - a Patak's korma jar, as it happened - and left it in the fridge when I went back. This paste was quite hot - needing only a teaspoon for a full curry to be pretty warm, but my parents, reading the instructions on the side of the jar, thought it would be a nice addition to their chicken curry. Two tablespoons later ...

[Correus]

Come on guys!!! Be Men among Men - go out and get a bottle of 'Mama Africa's Zulu Sauce - Habanero'.

http://www.biltongstmarcus.co.uk/mama-africas-zulu-sauce-habanero-125ml-3173-p.asp

It's a 10/10 on the heat index.

SWMBO enjoys telling people about my first reaction to eating it.... I dabbed a bit of Salmon Patty into it - not much, maybe a few drops. Out of my mouth came the flaming epitaph "HOLY MOTHER OF GOD!!!".

[Augustus_Gaius]

http://www.cheekychile.com/index.php?ma ... ucts_id=45

" This Naga Jolokia hot sauce takes Dave's hottest even further"

[Sirius]

I remember when I was back in Rhodesia and had Chicken Peri-Peri for the first time. It arrived at my table and looked just like an ordinary chicken dinner. It tasted like an ordinary chicken dinner, too. Very disappointing. Then the waiter brought a little gravy boat with what looked like chicken stock in it. I liberally poured the stuff all over and tucked in......Small mushroom clouds started erupting from my mouth and nose! It was hotter than Hell's door knocker, let me tell you! I haven't had anything that hot since! I am not kidding, to quote Mike Harding, I had to put the loo roll in the freezer!

Yip. Zim piri piri sauce is fierce indeed. Birdseye chillies (piri piri) from central Africa (think the ones i got were from Angola) are the hottest I have encountered - absolutely psychotic. Tasting them is like being voluntarily pepper-gassed. There are tribes in Africa that used to use such chilli as an local anesthetic.. crushed, its applied topically before sutures, dental work and such...

[Big Al]

I remember when I was back in Rhodesia and had Chicken Peri-Peri for the first time. It arrived at my table and looked just like an ordinary chicken dinner. It tasted like an ordinary chicken dinner, too. Very disappointing. Then the waiter brought a little gravy boat with what looked like chicken stock in it. I liberally poured the stuff all over and tucked in......Small mushroom clouds started erupting from my mouth and nose! It was hotter than Hell's door knocker, let me tell you! I haven't had anything that hot since! I am not kidding, to quote Mike Harding, I had to put the loo roll in the freezer!

Yip. Zim piri piri sauce is fierce indeed. Birdseye chillies (piri piri) from central Africa (think the ones i got were from Angola) are the hottest I have encountered - absolutely psychotic. Tasting them is like being voluntarily pepper-gassed. There are tribes in Africa that used to use such chilli as an local anesthetic.. crushed, its applied topically before sutures, dental work and such...

The scary bit is Whoever thought to try it and start using it?

[Cubster]

I think I read somewhere that the world's hottest chillis are grown in Britain in greenhouses (West Country somewhere I think).