Tim Blair is asking for all the best spicy sauce stories from his readers. I’ve offered mine, so I’ll post it here too.
My friend, Richard is famed for having a total of 3 working tastebuds, much like the character Dave Lister in the Sitcom ‘Red Dwarf’.
He has this limited taste capacity, like Lister, as a result of his incredulous love of all things insanely spicy.
Anyhow, he came into possession of a bottle of ‘Insanity Sauce’. The ridiculous concoction had little effect upon him, so he instead took it into one Food Technology lesson (Home Ec. in most other countries, why we call it Food Tech in the UK is beyond me).
The lesson’s subject was the creation of a pasta sauce and so each student put together their own Bolognese derivative and waited patiently at the end of the lesson for a taste test and mark from the teacher, a Mrs Pike.
Richard had produced a sauce containing no less than 2 tablespoons of Insanity Sauce. He made no effort to warn the teacher of this fact.
Mrs Pike took her customary mouthful, nodded and then moved onto the next table, marking down a score on her little notebook.
She had taken about 5 steps when the firepower of the spicy-stuff really kicked in and she just went absolutely ballistic. She was running around the classroom drinking any water she could get her hands on - funniest damn thing I saw in my entire time at St. Benedict’s College.
Later
John
Posted by John Swaine at July 21, 2004 02:51 AM | TrackBack