Dumbest thing I've done in years!!!
(Sorry for the long read)
I'll preface this post with saying that I have always had an extremely high tolerance and love for all things hot...
Well...I met my match today!
My boss had been telling me about a place in Shepherd (Po Boy's BBQ & Cajun Shack) that had a couple sandwiches that were part of a challenge. So, the family and I loaded up today and headed that way for lunch. One of the challenge sandwiches and the subject of this post is "The Atomic Finch". It is a chicken strip sandwich and the strips have been dipped/drowned in a scorpion pepper sauce. Very few have ever finished it. The owner told me that the record was finishing it in 2:30...so I thought "I eat really hot stuff and I eat fast so i got this"...
HOLY CRAP!!! That sauce made eating ghost peppers seem like an ice cube but I manned up and put it down in 2:24. DUMBEST THING I'VE DONE IN A WHILE!!! That dude lit me up! After lots of water and 20-30 mins of intense fire in my mouth, on my lips and nostrils (don't wipe your nose with same napkin that you wiped sauce from your lips with), I thought the worst was over. Wrong! The inside of my stomach was telling me there was something horribly wrong. I just wanted to crawl in a hole and die. I was sweating, feeling really weird and knew this wasn't gonna be a fun ride. Tums...ice cream...no workie. Sick doesn't even begin to describe the feeling I had. Then the atomic stomach cramps began and I was praying "Dear Jesus forgive me for my prideful stupidity and please give me relief from this devil in my stomach"! Never have I had my gut hurt like that. I stumbled my way from the couch and knelt in the front yard in 40 degree raining weather and thought "I really don't want my wife to see me cry but this might happen". At this point all I knew to do was to put the old finger down the throat. My daughter had heard moaning outside her bedroom window and looked outside in time to see Dad puking his guts out...and yes it burned coming up too!
I'm feeling much better for now after exorcising that devil sandwich from my gut so I had to share my extreme stupidity with any TBH bretbren who are thinking about partaking in any such challenges.
I'll preface this post with saying that I have always had an extremely high tolerance and love for all things hot...
Well...I met my match today!
My boss had been telling me about a place in Shepherd (Po Boy's BBQ & Cajun Shack) that had a couple sandwiches that were part of a challenge. So, the family and I loaded up today and headed that way for lunch. One of the challenge sandwiches and the subject of this post is "The Atomic Finch". It is a chicken strip sandwich and the strips have been dipped/drowned in a scorpion pepper sauce. Very few have ever finished it. The owner told me that the record was finishing it in 2:30...so I thought "I eat really hot stuff and I eat fast so i got this"...HOLY CRAP!!! That sauce made eating ghost peppers seem like an ice cube but I manned up and put it down in 2:24. DUMBEST THING I'VE DONE IN A WHILE!!! That dude lit me up! After lots of water and 20-30 mins of intense fire in my mouth, on my lips and nostrils (don't wipe your nose with same napkin that you wiped sauce from your lips with), I thought the worst was over. Wrong! The inside of my stomach was telling me there was something horribly wrong. I just wanted to crawl in a hole and die. I was sweating, feeling really weird and knew this wasn't gonna be a fun ride. Tums...ice cream...no workie. Sick doesn't even begin to describe the feeling I had. Then the atomic stomach cramps began and I was praying "Dear Jesus forgive me for my prideful stupidity and please give me relief from this devil in my stomach"! Never have I had my gut hurt like that. I stumbled my way from the couch and knelt in the front yard in 40 degree raining weather and thought "I really don't want my wife to see me cry but this might happen". At this point all I knew to do was to put the old finger down the throat. My daughter had heard moaning outside her bedroom window and looked outside in time to see Dad puking his guts out...and yes it burned coming up too!
I'm feeling much better for now after exorcising that devil sandwich from my gut so I had to share my extreme stupidity with any TBH bretbren who are thinking about partaking in any such challenges.
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