# Penis peppers **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 23, 1999, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-peppers/4928 "1999-11-23T03:42:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Fiona\_Firehair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a88e57/32.png) [@Fiona\_Firehair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiona_Firehair)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2000, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-peppers/4928/21 "2000-06-26T19:48:04Z")
Serious Capsicomaniacs (That’s pepper-lover to you) will want to check out Geraldine Duncan’s wonderful cookbook, “Some Like It Hotter”, where she adresses the subjects of fire-eating (That is, spicy foods) and fire-extinguishers (Or, food/drink that clear the palate of spice, even chili oil). Currently out of print, but still a nifty book - has fire-eating recipies from all over the world, as well as clever anecdotes and such. Fiona Firehair, Proud Memeber of the Galvanized Gullet Society ---
**Author:** ![Joe\_Cool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@Joe\_Cool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Cool)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2000, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-peppers/4928/22 "2000-06-26T21:14:51Z")
\ Oh…my…God. Damn you! Damn you all to hell!!! \ You’re making me homesick. I live in New Jersey now, where their idea of hot food is Chi Chi’s pseudo-mexican restaurant. Now because of you people, I need to plan a trip back to New Mexico just for food. ---
**Author:** ![CheapBastid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8baadc/32.png) [@CheapBastid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheapBastid)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2000, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-peppers/4928/23 "2000-06-26T21:29:52Z")
I’ve found (through personal experience) that a spoonful of sugar makes the fire go out. …the fire go ooout… …the fire go out. Anyway there **is** a protein in Milk products that help to cool the capsaicin fire as well. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2000, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-peppers/4928/24 "2000-06-26T22:11:55Z")
[Why water won’t help after eating spicy hot food](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_346.html) Mr. Adams’ personal preference for soothing the savage beastly hot spices is tequila. ---
**Author:** ![Fiona\_Firehair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a88e57/32.png) [@Fiona\_Firehair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiona_Firehair)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2000, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-peppers/4928/25 "2000-06-29T06:14:10Z")
Geraldine Duncan maintains that a nice, dark, chewy beer (Good beer, not that Rocky Mountain p\*\*\*water) is the best fire extinguisher for spicy food. I’ll stick with the milk, myself… never been much of a beer person. Worst experience with capsaicin: chopping leetle thai chiles for extra spicy guacamole…it got under my fingernails and burned for about six hours. Nothing helped. Ow. \<----understatement. and then, after washing my hands about twenty times, I rubbed my eyes _once_. Quadruple ow. ---
**Author:** ![tcburnett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@tcburnett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tcburnett)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2000, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-peppers/4928/26 "2000-06-29T07:15:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > I thot that was horticulture. i have had some success in that which mite explain why i need the peppers. > > ## Well, you can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think. > > “Pardon me while I have a strange interlude.”-Marx > > Try a slug of this, bub! - Burnett > > \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Louie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c68b51/32.png) [@Louie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Louie)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2000, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-peppers/4928/27 "2000-06-29T07:25:01Z")
Whoever bumped this thread, thanks. I completely forgot about those seeds, they haven’t been planted yet. ☹ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-peppers/4928.md?page=1)