Eating the hottest curry in UK - Gordon Ramsay

[Blue_Tires]

[olddots]

1. it's not good till your scalp sweats

[RebelOne]

2. Or your nose runs and your eyes water.

That's when I know it's hot enough.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

3. I have never understood why some people insist on incredibly hot food

Perhaps it's because I feel no need to prove my manliness.

[Chan790]

4. I don't eat incredibly-hot food to prove I'm a man...

I eat incredibly-hot food because I am an ubermench and that's what what ubermenchen do.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

5. In other words, you eat it to prove your manliness.

BTW, remember to capitalize your German nouns.

[Chan790]

9. Thanks. My German is rusty.

and there's nothing to prove. That's like saying a lawnmower consumes gasoline to prove it's a lawnmower.

[SwissTony]

7. Maybe we just like hot food.

Like others like sweet food (not for me) or meat (not for many) etc etc.

I don't eat hot food the way I used to, probably because it's not so readily available. But I used to eat hot food with a friend who could eat stuff I couldn't even contemplate. Trust me, she was in no way manly.

[sendero]

10. I really don't think it .

.... has anything to do with "manhood".

Remember, there are many cultures that eat almost exclusively extremely spicy food.

I don't like food so spicy that it is unbearably painful but I do simply enjoy spicy food. I really could not say why but it certainly isn't a macho trip.

[lunatica]

11. I don't eat incredibly hot food to prove my manhood at all

Maybe I'm doing it to prove my womanhood.

[sakabatou]

6. I wonder if it was made from Scorpion peppers

[AnneD]

8. Think I remember reading somewhere...

that eating really hot peppers releases endorphins.

[MiddleFingerMom]

12. I love hot foods, but once I was eating alone (thank goodness) in my favorite Thai restaurant...

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... and instead of my normal "3-level" of spiciness, I asked them to kick it up to a 5.
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OMG!!! I turned beet-red and every orifice in my body was streaming. It was so embarrassing that
I just paid my tab after a few bites and fled the premises.
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[OriginalGeek]

13. We go to a Thai place for lunch

and one time a co-worker went with us who hadn't gone before. He got the red curry and asked for it Thai hot (as opposed to american hot or the plain old medium that I order). The waitress said "You sure? It's reeeeeally hot"....He says "My wife is from Korea - she makes us hot stuff all the time. I can take it."


He couldn't take it. A couple bites in and he excused himself to the restroom. I believe he went in to cry. I'm sure he ran cold water over his face and head.

That was like 4 years ago and we still laugh at him for that. It's cool though - he laughs too..

In the intervening time he's brought food in that his wife has made for us and she is a great cook and some of it is way hotter than I can take and he eats it right up so I don't even wanna know what made his forehead explode.

[MiddleFingerMom]

14. !!!

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It wasn't the exploding forehead that you had to worry about.
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[OriginalGeek]

15. Ha! I didn;t have to worry about that end either

he rode in a different car.