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Once upon a time, a friend of mine was asleep on my couch. I put Tabasco on his lips. He was not amused. The end.
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I use it to make my own buffalo wings, because you can't get proper hot sauce in Australia.
I'm thinking of getting Tony's sister to send it over, to see if I approximate the real thing.
Tobasco is also great in bloody mary oyster shots. And in freshly squeezed tomato, carrot and celery juice (with lots of cracked black pepper and freshly ground salt).
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quote:Skyline chili, Oyster crackers, lots of cheese and all topped with tobasco. mmm...
Mmmmmm...The only thing I miss about my fiance moving here to Virginia is that now I have no excuse to go to Cincinnati to get Skyline Chili. Hard Times is a poor substitute.
quote:Spinkled on top of spaghetti&sauce. But Tabasco has become wimpier over time: nowadays it's more like the milder LouisianaHotSauce.
Are you sure repeated Tobasco use hasn't merely seared the top layer of your tounge, rendering it impervious to the heat?
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I think the little bottle is stronger than the big bottle. I don't know if that's just psychosomatic, but it seems like I have to use more out of the big bottle.
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Resistence to spicy food is really just your taste buds being too damaged to taste them as much as they used to. I would hate to have a large tolerance, for what it would mean about my sense of taste.
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Nope, fresh peppers affect me the same way as before. You just don't know how ear-sweatingly brow-beadingly HOT Tabasco used to be. Four or five small drops on a plate-covering mound of spaghetti would keep you sweating for the entire meal.
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The good old days of Tobasco sauce, when a lil dab would do ya.
The current Tabasco sauce is so much milder that I use it in cooking more for the sweet hints than for the heat.
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quote: Resistence to spicy food is really just your taste buds being too damaged to taste them as much as they used to.
I have wondered if this is true. Does anybody know this for a fact, and can point me towards evidence I can read myself?
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I still have to put Tabasco in my tomato soup (and have grilled cheese sandwiches with it), but for most other purposes, including eggs and quesadillas, I've switched to Cholula.
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A shot of tequila with lime juice and tabasco is tasty. We call em prairie fires. It’s the only way I can stomach tequila.
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WA, have you tried sangrita (not sangria) with tequila. It's a spicy citrus chaser - very good.
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I'm too lazy to look up links and stuff, but basically, yes, if your taste buds are damaged you can't taste food any more unless it's really, really spicy.
Notice that it wasn't said that spicy foods DID the damage. The effects of capsaicin--the stuff that makes chiles hot--can damage taste buds, but the damage is usually temporary.
(My wife knows this first hand. She LOVES spicy foods, more so than anybody I've ever met (and I lived in Brazil) and my brother made her the hottest, spiciest chicken he could possibly make. She lost her sense of taste for several days.)
Other things, however, can damage your taste buds permanently. Burns, smoking, stuff like that.
Doc
(Oh, and yeah, I know they've done tests where they did damage taste buds permanently using capsaicin, but that was at levels way, way beyond what you would injest. If my wife can't do it . . . )
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I dig the hot sauce., but not like some people I've known.
There was a restaurant where I lived that would feature a monthly hot-sauce tasting "contest". Lots of beef-eaters, lots of mexicans, lotta fans of Indian dishes. But it was always the vegetarians who came out on top? is this a trend?
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