Hi I’m Jon and I’m a Chilli addict. Well to be honest I’m not sure if this is a real addiction but I have decided to embrace it regardless. I eat them most days, for multiple meals if I can. However my love for chillies has not been painless.
As with a lot of people who have prepared or eaten chillies, a little careless behaviour can cause chilli residue in unwanted areas. Probably my earliest experience of this was at the age of 9 when I failed to wash my hand properly after cutting up a Cayenne chilli. Rubbing my eyes with said hands was not all an enjoyable experience.
Of course like many a person I have had the ridiculous experience of preparing chillies / needing the toilet incident. With me I must admit this scenario had happened on more than 1 occasion and I daresay will happen again.
Apart from stray chilli residue incidents I have also had some painful eating experiences as well. My most notable one occurred last year during a camping trip with 3 university housemates in Cornwall. This experience involved a hot dog and some hot pepper sauce. The combination of Habaneros and Scotch Bonnets made this a sauce quite a spicy competitor. I was quite liberal with the applying of said sauce. The fact that I got it on my face while eating Mr hot dog only increased the pain. This searing heat lasted for the good part of an hour. Luckily I wasn’t the only one silly enough to consume such a condiment. My housemate Ben also decided that this was a good way to eat a hot dog. Unlike me who dealt with the extreme spicy heat by complaining about it for an hour, he decided to immerse his head in a bucket of water. Very funny but it didn’t help!
Despite my numerous mishaps, my enthusiasm for the marvellous Chilli has not diminished.
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