Øutsider
Inspired
I love spicy food and my tolerance is for sure more than your average person. I prefer the heat to have flavor though. I'm not big into just 'hot' for the sake of it being hot.
That said, about 10 years ago, at a former job, we used to once a week or so get Thai food from a local joint. When the gal on the phone took my order, she either wrote it down wrong or heard me wrong. 3 was usually about perfect as that place usually made everything spicy to begin with. Her 3 must've looked like a damn 5 (their hottest). I took one bite and it was like I'd been maced (pepper spray). How do I know how that feels? Because we had to get maced during the training portion of that job (security at an incredibly hands on, nasty area of Minneapolis. We went through Minneapolis police defensive tactics training twice a year. ) so you knew what it felt like. I'm not kidding, I was uncontrollably coughing, had snot flowing out of my nose, could barely breathe...and that was just the first bite, lol. About 3-4 hours later, I had to go get rid of the rental food. And I kid you not, it literally felt like someone was holding a lighter under my a-hole and I'm sure it looked like that scene in Dumb & Dumber with Jeff Daniels on the toilet. From that point on, every time I'd call the place, I'd make 100% sure she heard me correct and wrote the 3 VERY clearly.
