spiciest food ever!

Please to put yr meal of delicious pain HERE.

I only get really destroyed by Indian places it seems. Most places/dishes are fine, but there's a place here called Curry-in-a-Hurry that just murders me. I must have had like ten glasses of water last time.

There was also the Indian place my mom took me when I was maybe 14, whatever I got was so eye-watering that it put me off Indian food for years.

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Strong juju. I love hot food, southwestern in particular but the hottest thing I ever ate was a chinese dish, those little red chilis are not messing around.

I find that asian chilis fall into three categories... sorta spicy, spicy, and way too spicy. the sorta spicy ones are the ones I find most often in whitewashed chinese places, and basically just taste like concentrated red pepper / paprika. The better places have the spicy ones, which I can handle, but not if I get like two peppers in one bite.

I've had the way too spicy ones a couple times, and even a nibble of them was too much for me. If I'd eaten a whole one, who knows how many of my organs would have collapsed.

Went to an Indian place w/ a friend last week (I treated him to dinner for XMas) (awwww) - he got the Lamb Vindaloo, ate a portion of it, then left the leftovers @ my place. Being the good friend I am, I figured, after 5 days, I should eat the leftovers lest they go to waste. It was my first extended encounter with Vindaloo. Wooo boy. I don't want to talk about this morning.

however, there is this korean spice that makes me ponder why i have tastebuds down there.

Those sound like the ones to which I refer Polyphonic. According to the gospel of Alton Brown (I'm very much a Good Eats fanboy), none of the asian chilis have a Scoville rating higher than a habanero. I've had habaneros in food, they have never made me wish for death the way this particular chinese dish did. Maybe some other spice was also at play.

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In related news, I think I know EXACTLY what g! means re: "tastebuds down there". Hot cha cha cha.

(ILX is my new Google)

the hottest shit i've ever had was at this Mexican place (that i still go to every week at work). They have a salsa bar, with a bunch of homemade salsas, chipotles, and whatnot. It's labeled mild, hot, xhot, xxhot, up to xxxhot. First time I went there I said "BRING IT" and tried some xxxhot stuff on a taco. Only had two bites and thought I was going to die. My sister arrived with a huge banana shake, I downed the whole thing in about .2 seconds and it did nothing to kill the heat.

Here come the Googlers.

What's everybody's favorite jerk marinade/sauce?

The spiciest food ever for me is either the chili I made in jr high, the first time I'd had habaneros -- I assumed they were comparable in heat to jalapenos, so put handfuls of them in; and the piece of popcorn at the sample table at the Bayou Country store in New Orleans, where I tried one of those Hugely Spicy Sauces they enhance with pure capsaicin. That night, I could still feel the spot on my tongue where it had made contact, like a steam burn.

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