Over the past few months I've been hearing about a challenge at Salvador Molly's, a local restraunt here in Portland that serves pirate food (aka Caribbean food). The challenge is to eat five cheese fritters. Doesn't sound to difficult does it? Ohh ya, their stuffed full of habanero peppers, the hottest peppers grown. Now I was a bit nervous when I ordered the Great Balls of Fire due to the many stories I heard of people hallucinating after eating them or the intense abdominal pain felt afterwards, but I put reason aside and put on my stupid college guy hat.
The first three went down with relative ease, mainly because I ate them really fast. When I started on numbers four and five I could light cigarettes with my breath and it was painful to close my mouth. But I succeeded, and what did I win? My picture on the "Wall of Flame" and the admiration of all those around me. Unfortunately the hallucinations of Mayan cities and spirit wolves running through the Amazon jungle I was promised never came. Oh well... |