Andrew, you're not doing it right.  You need a BIG drink, with LOTS of
alcohol to make it stop hurting...
bmc  :)
"Faith will move mountains, but you'd better bring a shovel...."

> From: Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
> Reply-To: Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
> Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 12:02:41 +1200
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Some NVC to break things up a bit...
>
> Good one! my wife's a Fijian Indian, and I can eat hotter food than
> many of her family. She and one of her Indian friends in my kitchen
> one evening one day dared me to eat a whole large raw chili of a
> particularly fiery kind.  So I stuffed it in and chewed it well
> before swallowing it. Yeah, it was hot, but I did it!
>
> For those who don't handle hot foods well, if you have a drink
> afterward it actually makes it worse, as it spreads whatever it is
> that makes hot Capsicums hot to areas in your mouth which may not
> have already been exposed.
> --
> Andrew Grebneff
> 165 Evans St, Dunedin 9001, New Zealand
> <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
> Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut
> Hmm, Windows For Dummies...  You got that right!!!
> Friends don't let friends do Windows
>