Moni

Been there [img]smile.gif[/img] ... luckily I was feeling no pain at the time. My wife was trying to grow something that I would admit was hot. For several years she grew peppers to feed me... only to hear "they're mild", or "well... they TASTE good". Finally she grew a bunch of "Bolivian Rainbow" Chili peppers.

I munched one... it was HOOTTTT (she was so proud [img]smile.gif[/img] ). So of course I dragged a bunch down to a party and we had a taste test. Ate one of them... then ate a Habanero. The concensus was that the Habanero was hotter, but not by much.

For Hot Sauces I like good old Red Hot if I'm in a "keep your intestines intact" mood, and Daves Insanity for those "eat, drink, and breath fire, for tomorrow you may die (in the bathroom no doubt)"[/QUOTE]LOL

A lady gave me a habenero once...rather than eat it, I let it dry out and broke it open to take the seeds. Out of twelve seeds, I got ONE sprout but that's all I needed LOL!
I took it over to my boyfriend's backyard (30 ft tall orange tree, grapefruits, peaches, healthy vines...just a place where things liked to grow) and within two months we had a small bush...by the time it was 8 months old it was a virtual tree standing over 4 ft tall with branches spreading out about three feet wide.
The next spring/summer we were pulling 6 to 12 ripe peppers off of it every few days!
Lucky for us we had a friend who could never get enough of them because I won't touch one LOL and my boyfriend only ate one (in pieces ha ha) a week.
We visited his parents in New Mexico once and his little brother couldn't stop bragging about how "you just can't get any thing better than a bowl of macaroni and cheese with a few jalapenos chopped up into it"...."nothing was too hot" for him to eat, blah blah, blah, so when his mom came up to see us in Tucson one day, I sent her home with ONE habenero for his brother with a warning to be careful with it so he could enjoy it.
The next time I saw him, he had come up to see his brother. He walked into the house and the first thing I asked him (after saying hello of course) was "How'd you like that pepper I sent you?"
His face went about 5 shades of red before he could stop smiling and speak "oh! It was good! Its the SEEDS that are hot!"
(uh huh! LOL)
I never heard him brag about how nothing could be hot enough for him again LOL and never once did he ever want another habenero. [img]graemlins/evillaughter2.gif[/img]

I hear there are even smaller hotter peppers from China, South America or someplace but have not seen them first hand that I know of nor would I ever try one just to see how hot it is (LOL @ you) but there is a place in San Antonio that serves some Mandarin dish with what looks like pieces of some red "pod" in it that I had the privelege to enjoy...as long as I picked around whatever that red stuff was LOL! My throat burned for the rest of the afternoon after I got the first piece of it (about half way through my meal). Still, I'd go there again and order the same dish...it was an exquisite kind of spicy, yummy stuff.

T/-/alali,
Callouses on your tongue?! You're missing out on TASTE LOL! That's one of the finer aspects of eating good food!