Been eatin’ a load of wasabi poppers the past few days. That’s a peanut wrapped in rather potent wasabi paste. Pain was never so tasty. It’s fun to watch people try them for the first time and then grab the bridge of their nose in pain. There was a somewhat embarrassing moment when one tactless person loudly complained about “[Hypno-Toads] Devil Balls.”
Anybody else like these? I highly recommend them to anybody who hates themself and feels that they need to be punished.
I like wasahbi.
I like pain like that.
I would like to subscribe to your newsletter. Linkee poo?
Well, I get my wasabi poppers at the Fresh Market but have also seen them at World Market (both of these are chain grocery stores).
Here’s a retail link that I just googled up, but I can’t vouch for it. It does contain some interesting products, not just the wasabi poppers: http://www.obnuts.com/productHoneyRoasted.htm
Ah, yes. Wasabi headrush.
Somehow that stuff gets rapidly absorbed by the roof of your mouth, blasts through your sinuses like a rocket train, and goes straight to the brain.
I love wasabi peas. Because it’s peas, see? They’re health food. (They are actually lowfat and contain a nontrivial amount of iron . . . but then I don’t know if I’ve ever actually consumed a full “serving” at one sitting, for fear of liquifing my eyeballs.)
Would these really clear out your sinuses? I’m serious here.
Homer, is that you?
Or is this a new form of TDM?
Just my first thoughts at reading the OP.
Depends, I guess. Does eating spicy food clear out your sinuses? It does for me, whether it’s some hardcore Thai food or some merciless salsa. But I don’t generally have sinus problems unless I have a cold, and your sinuses may vary.
Ooh, and I remembered another favorite wasabi-delivery system. Wegmans has a wasabi salad dressing in their “Discover the Orient” line. Highly recommended for transforming your garden salad into a religious experience.
Yes, but it’s temporary.
I love wasabi peanuts. So much hotter than wasabi peas!
A guy I work with always bums some of them off me. He thinks he can eat hot stuff, but awhile back I demonstrated to him that he was a rank amateur:
He wanted some more wasabi peanuts, but I’d eaten all the whole ones. I had a big pile of the crumbs and broken bits in the bottom of the container, though. So I gave him a teaspoonful of the crumbs, and he ate it right down. And got very quiet. And then turned bright red. While everybody watched.
The amazing thing was that he stopped talking (very uncharacteristic for him) for the next 20 minutes.
BTW, I love sprinkling wasabi peas on vanilla iced cream! hot and crunchy and smooth and sweet!
That sounds really weird, but not unworkable.
There’s a difference between heat-hot and spicy-hot. I’m not one for jalapenos, but Chinese mustard slathered on my egg rolls? Mmmmmm…
You got wasabi balls. Is that like Altoids on the tongue during sex…
The thread title reminds me of Peter Boyle & Gene Hackman.
Hey, I love the capsaicins a lot myself. Can’t get enough of chipotle peppers, scotch bonnets, even the standard jalapenos are lovely.
But those isothiocyanate molecules in wasabi and horseradish and good mustards are to just die for!
What we need is molecular fusion cuisine here!! Cream cheese infused with wasabi, then the mixture put into a banana pepper, breaded, fried lightly, and served hot!
Who else has recipes for combining the two greatest food molecules ever: isothiocyanates and capsaicins? Let’s hear 'em!!
In what way?
