Chilli peppers

[daveyp1970]

I've been enjoying this thread and am most definitely a chiili head - though our attempts to grow them have been fairly hopeless!

Susan requested chilli on her pizza tonight. The pack of mixed chillis we got from our local oriental supermarket last week have been disappointingly wussy thus far, so I thought I'd double up on quantity. They seem to have matured a bit since last week. Susan immediately got hiccups and even I had to drink some milk afterwards to put the fire out...

Nice pizza though

Darren give me a few weeks and i will send you a selection of seedlings,i have far to many for my needs.The hiccups are funny

[SusanS]

The hiccups are funny

That depends on whether it is you that suffers from them.  It can be very embarrassing when dining out     

It is surprising how many restaurants don't sell glasses of milk   

Susan 

[daveyp1970]

The hiccups are funny

That depends on whether it is you that suffers from them.  It can be very embarrassing when dining out     

It is surprising how many restaurants don't sell glasses of milk   

Susan 

Susan it baffles me why they can't serve milk,you could always order ice cream or yoghurt for pudding that might help with the burn.I apologise for saying that's its funny to watch people having a hiccup fit,i only get them when i have eaten a really hot chilly like a naga or a douglah and your right it's not nice on the recieving end .

[maggiepie]

Have never heard of someone getting hiccups from eating chillies before.
Usual reaction is lots of ohohohohoh........and frantic waving in front of mouth.
Worst chilli fumes I have ever encountered was the first year we tried dehydrating some from the garden.
We sliced them up and put them in the dehydrator and before long our eyes were streaming, even the cat was having problems.
Ended up putting the dehydrator into the garage to finish.

[Panu]

Oh yes, hiccups are very familiar here. The worst are habaneros (or other hot chinense cultivars). Stomach pain isnīt fun either, but...

[daveyp1970]

Oh yes, hiccups are very familiar here. The worst are habaneros (or other hot chinense cultivars). Stomach pain isnīt fun either, but...

Panu stomach cramps are worse i am on a mission to raise my chilli tolerance so i can attempt to eat a pod from the hottest chilli, Trinidad scorpion butch T,on my journey the Douglah hurt me the most so far the burn is very intense,my ears were killing and then the stomach cramps had me in bits.But i have to say i am slightly addicted to the burn i find it quite nice or its the endorphins rush

[SusanS]

The hiccups are funny

That depends on whether it is you that suffers from them.  It can be very embarrassing when dining out     

It is surprising how many restaurants don't sell glasses of milk   

Susan 

Susan it baffles me why they can't serve milk,you could always order ice cream or yoghurt for pudding that might help with the burn.I apologise for saying that's its funny to watch people having a hiccup fit,i only get them when i have eaten a really hot chilly like a naga or a douglah and your right it's not nice on the recieving end .

No offence taken Davey,   I usually end up laughing at myself when I get them ... which then leads to the problem of trying to laugh and hiccup at the same time   

Funny thing is there doesn't seem to be a pattern, some times I can eat quite spicy food without a trace of a hiccup and other times the dish has just a hint of chilli in it and I get the hiccups.  Do different varieties of chillis contain different chemicals, and could this be responsible for the hiccup?

I do tend to go for the ice-cream desserts, or rice pudding if they have it, to put the fire out.  Any excuse for a pudding 

Susan

[Lesley Cox]

When I was a child and got hiccoughs, after a while my mother would say "I'll give you half a crown (remember those days?) if you can do it again." Cured the hiccoughs every time until once, I DID do it again. The half crown was paid but the offer was never made again.

[David Nicholson]

I don't get hiccups but I do sweat like the proverbial pig when I eat curry, chilli or indeed any spicy food. It's somewhat embarrassing to sit in a restaurant with sweat pouring down my face but I can't resist it.

[maggiepie]

My grandfather told me to sip a glass of water upside down.
It works every time for me.

 

[BryanEmery]

Helen,
That must be a Canadian thing, my grandmother taught me the same thing.

B

[maggiepie]

Helen,
That must be a Canadian thing, my grandmother taught me the same thing.

B

Bryan, I was born and bred in Australia, have only been in Canada for just over 10 years.
Wonder who else was taught that.
I have passed it on to heaps of people who are mostly sceptical.

 

[Maggi Young]

The 'drinking out of a cup upside down' ( from the wrong side) thing is done here inthe UK as well. 

It nearly always works for me. 

[Lori S.]

Thanks for the suggestions for the chili ID, John and Davey.

...i am on a mission to raise my chilli tolerance...

On that note, there's a movie you may find amusing (if you like very black, satirical humour, that is) called War Inc. in which this figures largely. 

[Lesley Cox]

My grandfather told me to sip a glass of water upside down.
It works every time for me.

 

Can you explain just how that is achieved please?
Clem fusca dwarf will be posted tomorrow when I have to go out.