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On Feb 26, 6:10 am, len garden wrote:

i know
people who can eat the habinaro (hottest of the hot) like we would eat
an apple, and not bring a tear to their eye.


I knew a bloke who used to do that trick as an attention getting
thing. When we went for a curry meal he would order the hottest dish
on the menu and then ask for a bowl of chillies on the side. He would
munch, seeds and all, on these with apparent joy and offer them around
to anybody who wanted to play the game. He never showed any signs of
distress or drank large amounts of fluids, yogurt etc. A real Iron
Man or so it seemed.

His girlfriend told me that the day after these performances he used
to suffer agonies for hours so in the interests of science I used to
egg him on to eat more. He proved that people will go through hell if
they think it will enhance their creds.

snort

i was disappointed to read recently dr karl "debunking" the myth of (what we
call in our family) curry-bottom - i.e. the misery one can experience while
on the loo the day after eating something unusually hot. dr karl is mostly
right but sometimes wrong - everyone _i_ know thinks he's totally wrong on
this one. the only way to avoid curry-bottom is to eat it every day so your
tender parts are used to it, otherwise you _will_ get the good old "ring of
fire". like your friend ;-)
kylie