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The thumb. No person would hold that like that. And look at Nutrition facts.

Much as I love spicy foods/hot sauce, this weapons grade shit is just silly.

I once signed a waiver to purchase a spicy chicken sandwich and will never do so again.

I had the same sandwich (Dave's Hot Chicken reaper sandwich). I assumed it was just a marketing stunt. After one bite I had to go back and get a milkshake so I could sip it between bites to finish the damn sandwich.
- Oh was it made with Dave's Hot Sauce? I had a customer bring in his own Ultimate Insanity hot sauce to use in a Prairie Fire shot (tequila+hot sauce). Shit looked ROUGH. He let me keep the hot sauce after though and it became one of my partner's favourites.
I find it hard to understand how a potentially hazardous to health food item is even allowed.
What is this obcession with ever increasing level of spice in food, lately?
Because at some point all the flavour just goes away, replaced by a hefty dose of pain.
- It can be fun to safely experience sensory extremes. Many people get an endorphin/dopamine rush from it.
  Other than some gut irritation it's not a significant hazard. Like yeah keep it safely stored from sensitive people and pets also it's probably not the best road trip snack or whatever. Certainly less dangerous than alcohol, fireworks, cigarettes or texting while driving.
- Spice will give you an approximation of a "runner's high" without the tedious mucking about of exercise. There is, of course, an upper limit which too many products tip past.
- Because it's fun. Live a little.
- self inflicted pain with no scars or prema damage, as long as it's below pepper spray.
- I realize I'm a special case, but my nose is essentially non-functional—I don't smell food. While my sense of taste is more sensitive than your average person, I suspect I still miss out on some kinds of flavour. I believe my impairment is why I am drawn towards strong tastes like cheeses or, indeed, extremely spicy food. They're the "only" flavours that I really experience strongly.
- in the past i thought eating spicy food made me look cool and manly, but then i realised i'm missing out on the flavour of foods and understood i was being silly. so now i mostly stick to mild foods, with the occasional spicy food for varity's sake but only if i can actually taste the flavour of said food through the spice
  but that's just me
My mouth is broken and I love really spicy stuff. Like, still haven't met someone in person who likes things as spicy as I like them.
FYI to the Flaming Anus chocolate bar: it's advertising hype BS. Like most hot sauces yelling out some high scoville number. All that big "2.2 million scoville" on the packaging here is actually just referencing that it has Carolina reaper pepper in the chocolate, and that those peppers can be up to 2.2 million scoville.
But the peppers are dead last on the ingredient list. Each bar has very little in it. If I ate a Carolina reaper pepper rated over 2 million even I would hate it and it would burn and I'd feel like my insides wanted to die. But the chocolate bar here is just a spicy little snack.
A guy after my own heart. Do you like vinegar based hot sauces? If not, which sauces do you go for? I’ve struggled for years to find decent sauces and have only found Melinda’s and my own sauces to tolerate.
- Not the guy you responded to, but I also love hot sauce. I usually stock franks, yellowbird's red jalapeño sauce (forget the name), and cholula or Valentina if I don't feel like paying for it. I also had this really awesome green hot sauce from El Pato brand, but I haven't ever seen it again. Hopefully someday!
- Vinegar tends to be too forward. I go for the stuff you'll find in a Mexican market or "ethnic" aisle of a grocery store. Peppers being an ingredient higher than most others beyond water catch my eye. Melinda's is alright, though I've seen them branch out quite a bit from their more humble beginnings.
- I don't like vinegary too much (or smoke/fermented flavor etc), I like El Yucateco Red.
  Though it is a bit expensive for a tiny bottle. So I made a few big bottles trying my own spin from garden habaneros (orange) and liked how it turned out.
  I see the key ingredients: distilled white vinegar, citric acid, xantham gum and tomato paste EDIT: carrots is another trick, IIRC I fried mine with onions and bell peppers
- Ah, a fellow Melinda's enjoyer! I love they're Ghost Pepper sauce in particular (though it's fairly mild for a Ghost Pepper sauce). My only complaint with Melinda's, is that they consistently use too much carrot in their sauces. But otherwise they're really great!

I'm not eating any food that advertises what it will do to your asshole. We're adults here, you can just say it's hot. You don't have to say "We are very proud of the way our product will absolutely Sept 11th the hole you shit from." It's not necessary to bring my asshole into this.

well 9/11 was an inside job
- Caused by gut flora
Ok but what about a soothing breeze anus chocolate bar?
- Citrus kiss
- Do I eat it or just shove it right up there?
Might be more of a Deepwater Horizon situation?

I never understood sweets with spiciness added. It just ruins the whole experience for me. Spicy on savoury foods is fine but not on primarily sweet ones.

I dunno. I like my chili flavoured candy.
Beside, wasn't chocolate traditionally eaten with chili by the natives? Or was it a spicy coco drink...?
- Chocolate isn't sweet, it's bitter. You have to add a lot of sugar to get the sweet chocolate we're familiar with. The Mayan and Aztec versions of hot chocolate were more like a spicy coffee than the sweet drink we have now.
- I'll occasionally make up coffee in the morning with chocolate, cinnamon, and a few shakes of cayenne pepper. Coffee shop I went to once did the same thing, called it an Aztec Mocha. Very good.
- Chili flavored? ewww. Cinnamon flavored? Oh yeah! Turn that spicy up!
A lot of Asian foods are spicy/sweet; it is great.
- Yeah but are they spicy sweets/desserts?
It's amazing how all humans are different.
Agree with slight exception: Pineapple, Jalapeno, Pepperoni on pizza. Just the right amount of sweet, spicy, and salty on the savory base. Shit slaps.
- That could work. But it is as I said not primarily meant tobe sweet.
- Add goat cheese to that and it's the best pizza
Honestly, thst is very subjective. I love tamarind and pepper candy, vanilla ice cream with spicy chips, and honey plus roasted chillies marinade for pork.
And I say this as someone who is not into spicy food, there are a few combinations out there, where the sweet and spicy mix actually work great for a snack.
- Good for you.
  I do like spicy food in fact but spicy sweets were always offputing to me.
This variety is for the challenge of it, not the enjoyment of eating it.
- Well this one is but many are not.
I've tried a few mild chilli chocolates and they've been pretty good. Not too sweet though, actual chocolates.
Sweetness increases your tolerance for heat. The Scoville unit basically tells you how much sugar water it takes to mask the spiciness.
- What?
  Scoville is exactly how much water it takes to neutralize the capsaicin until you can't detect it.
  Which as different people have different tolerance it's really not a precise method, and prone to mixed results for individuals.
  It has nothing to do with sugar. Most people find sugar intensifies capsaicin

iirc mice don't have the same response to capsaicin as humans - they can taste it, and don't particularly like the taste, but it doesn't cause them pain like it does in humans.

I'm sure birds are immune as well as Steve-O, can't say for sure of rodents.
- From a tiny amount of reading (and a complete lack of a biology degree...) it's that the rodent taste buds just react differently to the capsaicin, so it doesn't hit the sodium channels in the pain receptor 'stack' in the same way as it does in humans. It's not the total lack of reaction like you get with birds or some ungulates.
  ...
  I think.
This is interesting. A popular squirrel deterrent for bird feeders is to put spicy stuff on the seed. I’ve been trying that lately and the squirrels have completely left my bird feeder alone. So there must be something rodents don’t like — unless squirrels are just built different?
- Squirrels just need to nut up.
I thought all mammals responded to capsaicin
- Seeing the videos of goats just casually chomping through the carolina reapers, I would bet there are differences in species.
- You thought right, at least based on this research:
  capsaicin as a rodent aversion agent
I assume so. I have had critters gorging on my ghosts and reapers in the garden. Losing an entire plant overnight was the last straw so I have webbing up now, but they were clearly unaffected.
- Lost a plant with peppers on it? I wonder what OG was eating that.
By this researcher they do feel the "pain" from it:
capsaicin as a rodent aversion agent
- Am I just missing where they claim that? From the conclusion:
  Altering the palatability of this feed to rodents through the addition of capsaicin may greatly enhance traditional methods of increasing poison bait acceptance on poultry operations
  That they avoid the taste has nothing inherently to do with the 'pain' experienced as a result of consuming it - in the preceding section they discuss other strategies to increase bait acceptance, including adding rodenticide to preferred bait foods. That rodents have taste preferences isn't really in question, that they have a pain response to consuming capsaicin is.

That's how California fires get started.

Reminds me of the time I lost an entire day to the fucking One Chip Challenge.

I'm the "spicy guy" of my circle of people I know, so I always get brought in the challenge things and hottest x to try. Had the gummies and jerky, and beer, and all sorts of things. The chip has been the only one that I'd actually say was hot. Mouth was fine, but it made my stomach hurt for like 10 minutes.
- Lucky you. My experience was the first 20 minutes were bad, but tolerable, then my stomach hurt like a mother fucker for an hour, then I projectile vomited and sat in the shower for like an hour+. Went to bed after that. It was like 5PM.
- There are worse experiences.
  One Chip challenge was no big deal to me. 9M Scoville Lil Nitro Gummy was much hotter but I did it without regret. 16M Scoville CaJohns Trouble Bubble bubble gum felt like it was roughly the same heat as the gummy. I completed the challenge blowing a bubble, but soon after started puking lava. There was regret. 😄

... that might actually be a ... rather inhumane, but 'effective' form of pest control for mice.

I... did not know that anyone made fucking ghost pepper grade chocolate, but yeah, that would lure in and then potentiall kill, if not seriously injure or at least dissuade mice.

Its like sugar + borax for ants and such, sheesh.

No one does. It isn't a 2.2 million shu chocolate bar. It just has a very small amount of Carolina reaper pepper as an ingredient in the bar. Most of those hot sauces with goofy names are the same way. "Satan's lBunghole made with 6,000,000 pepper extract" Yeah. Made with like a drop of extract so the sauce is more like 200,000 scoville.
- Ok, that makes much more sense.
  I can handle a decent bit of spice, been to a good number of hole in the wall, pretty authentic restaurants of many different kinds of cuisine from many places... but I can't handle an insane amount of it, I don't know the actual scolville (sp?, shus apparently?) ratings ...
  But yeah, that makes much more sense that its mostly marketing bs.
dissuade
"fuck this shit I am moving from this house"
- Mouse Yelp Review:
  Walls: 4/5
  roomy, yet also cozy!
  Climate Control: 3/5
  gotta stick near the right pipes in peak summer/winter
  Catering: 0/5
  actual sadistic death trap food, the 'complimentary' continental breakfast looks great, but will disembowel you. RIP lil squeeky jr.
  Overall: 2/5

Wait, do mice like chocolate? Can they eat chocolate? Or is this one of those the-dog-will-shit-itself-to-death things?

It's the dog thing. Chocolate can be toxic for them.
- Gonna be a fuckin painful exit for this mouse it seems.

When the first spasms hit.

Why does that look like Mickey is busting a nut? Seeing Mickey's O-face wasn't on my list of things to do today.

One of those things you buy but never to actually eat. I remember my brother bought me a beer that was made using yeast originally cultured from beard hairs belonging to the master Brewmaster (I believe rouge brewery made it). Could never bring myself to drink it. Sat in my shelf for years as more of a keep sake.

Yeah... this is worse than my sister buying me candy with ants...
- Where would that be a legal tender?
- Some ants are actually pretty good. There are green tree cutter ants that are an awesome sour snack.
Beard beer! Yeah, rogue was definitely playing with things at the time (remember voodoo donut?). Gotta keep in mind this brewer had been brewing in a yeast laden environment for many years.
I feel like I remember reading white labs sampled it and found it was a combo of several of their strains.
- They also had that one whose yeast had been to space. Way the hell overpriced and not very good.
And then there's the polish beer, made from yeast culture from a couple of models kootchies.
- Well, I didn't realise Amouranth was Polish. Every day is a school day.
  https://shunbeer.com/article/where-to-buy-amouranth-beer
That's fucking disgusting. Are they valuable? I pull one of those of my bath drain every couple of years if he ever needs another one.
Those bars are fine to eat, though. Spicy chocolate tastes good and the 2.2 million advertising is BS. They contain a tiny amount of pepper from 2 million+ scoville Carolina reaper peppers. Diluted down as the last ingredient in the chocolate bar makes it way, way, lower.
- True true. This isn't pure form. I probably would still avoid it myself, while I do like hot things, I have the worst luck so I'd somehow get the one they "accidentally" made 2.2 million Scoville lol.

Some products like this should be required to have dangerous chemical signs on them.

I don't think that the mouse would have understood them.
- lol
It's advertising bs. The chocolate isn't that hot. It isn't 2.2 million scoville. It had a tiny amount of 2.2 million scoville pepper mixed into the chocolate. That pepper is dead last on the ingredients list. You'd have a harder time eating half a habanero.

WTH is this pic?

Who holds a chocolate bar like that?

Who would have such a piece of finger nail?

Judging by his fingernails being so dirty, I’m guessing he’s a tradesperson. Tradespeople tend to damage/chip/break nails. As for the odd thumb position, I’m guessing he initially was holding it looking at the back, and turned his hand to show the front a bit for the photo, leading to the awkward thumb position.
- It really doesn't though

Yeah, that mouse is dead.

Dogs and cats can't taste capsaicin, can mice?

Dogs and cats can definitely perceive spiciness from capsaicin. Are you maybe thinking about birds? They cannot.
- No, just getting lied to by Alexa is all.
- All I'm thinking about now is a bird perching on a line with a constant stream of explosive diarrhea, and it's one of the funniest images I've ever conceived.
Yes, like all mammals, mice can taste the capsaicin and it’ll burn.
On a side note i have pet parrots and they have no receptors to register the capsaicin so those fuckers will sit there eating raw jalapeño and little red Thai peppers like it’s candy, they love the seeds. Then they come over later and give me spicy kisses

ai still has trouble with hands.

What's wrong with the hands?

Text is way too legible to be AI, unless it's heavily edited AI.
this looks slopped / i can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few slops in my time.
I can't believe they stole the work of the hard working Flaming Anus artists in order to AI generate a bite mark into it and claim their place in the c/lemmyshitpost hall of fame. smhing my head.
/s (maybe google for 3 seconds before trying to start an AI witchhunt.)
The bar is full of "nutrittton" how could it be AI? 😂
- It says “nutrition”, but the quality of the photo makes the dot of the i’s blend to the body. But there are only three vertical lines (representing “iti”).