Oh was it made with Dave's Hot Sauce? I had a customer bring in his own Ultimate Insanity hot sauce to use in a Prairie Fire shot (tequila+hot sauce). Shit looked ROUGH. He let me keep the hot sauce after though and it became one of my partner's favourites.

Spice will give you an approximation of a "runner's high" without the tedious mucking about of exercise. There is, of course, an upper limit which too many products tip past.

It can be fun to safely experience sensory extremes. Many people get an endorphin/dopamine rush from it.

Other than some gut irritation it's not a significant hazard. Like yeah keep it safely stored from sensitive people and pets also it's probably not the best road trip snack or whatever. Certainly less dangerous than alcohol, fireworks, cigarettes or texting while driving.

in the past i thought eating spicy food made me look cool and manly, but then i realised i'm missing out on the flavour of foods and understood i was being silly. so now i mostly stick to mild foods, with the occasional spicy food for varity's sake but only if i can actually taste the flavour of said food through the spice

but that's just me

I realize I'm a special case, but my nose is essentially non-functional—I don't smell food. While my sense of taste is more sensitive than your average person, I suspect I still miss out on some kinds of flavour. I believe my impairment is why I am drawn towards strong tastes like cheeses or, indeed, extremely spicy food. They're the "only" flavours that I really experience strongly.

self inflicted pain with no scars or prema damage, as long as it's below pepper spray.

Because it's fun. Live a little.

Not the guy you responded to, but I also love hot sauce. I usually stock franks, yellowbird's red jalapeño sauce (forget the name), and cholula or Valentina if I don't feel like paying for it. I also had this really awesome green hot sauce from El Pato brand, but I haven't ever seen it again. Hopefully someday!

Vinegar tends to be too forward. I go for the stuff you'll find in a Mexican market or "ethnic" aisle of a grocery store. Peppers being an ingredient higher than most others beyond water catch my eye. Melinda's is alright, though I've seen them branch out quite a bit from their more humble beginnings.

I don't like vinegary too much (or smoke/fermented flavor etc), I like El Yucateco Red*.

Though it is a bit expensive for a tiny bottle. So I made a few big bottles trying my own spin* from garden habaneros (orange) and liked how it turned out.

* I see the key ingredients: distilled white vinegar, citric acid, xantham gum and tomato paste EDIT: carrots is another trick, IIRC I fried mine with onions and bell peppers

Ah, a fellow Melinda's enjoyer! I love they're Ghost Pepper sauce in particular (though it's fairly mild for a Ghost Pepper sauce). My only complaint with Melinda's, is that they consistently use too much carrot in their sauces. But otherwise they're really great!

From a tiny amount of reading (and a complete lack of a biology degree...) it's that the rodent taste buds just react differently to the capsaicin, so it doesn't hit the sodium channels in the pain receptor 'stack' in the same way as it does in humans. It's not the total lack of reaction like you get with birds or some ungulates.
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I think.

Squirrels just need to nut up.

Lost a plant with peppers on it? I wonder what OG was eating that.

Am I just missing where they claim that? From the conclusion:

Altering the palatability of this feed to rodents through the addition of capsaicin may greatly enhance traditional methods of increasing poison bait acceptance on poultry operations

That they avoid the taste has nothing inherently to do with the 'pain' experienced as a result of consuming it - in the preceding section they discuss other strategies to increase bait acceptance, including adding rodenticide to preferred bait foods. That rodents have taste preferences isn't really in question, that they have a pain response to consuming capsaicin is.

Ok, that makes much more sense.

I can handle a decent bit of spice, been to a good number of hole in the wall, pretty authentic restaurants of many different kinds of cuisine from many places... but I can't handle an insane amount of it, I don't know the actual scolville (sp?, shus apparently?) ratings ...

But yeah, that makes much more sense that its mostly marketing bs.

Mouse Yelp Review:

Walls: 4/5

• roomy, yet also cozy!

Climate Control: 3/5

• gotta stick near the right pipes in peak summer/winter

Catering: 0/5

• actual sadistic death trap food, the 'complimentary' continental breakfast looks great, but will disembowel you. RIP lil squeeky jr.

Overall: 2/5