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* In the ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' fic "Happily Ever After," goblin food is so spicy that any humans with the guts to eat it have to take a special protective potion beforehand. Harry suggested starting a restaurant chain that specialized in it and possibly adding on some Muggle franchises, because "...there are lots of Muggles who think pain is a flavour."

* In the ''[[Persona 4]]'' fanfic ''[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9996283/1/ A Different Kind of Truth]'', Rise Kujikawa is explicitly fond of spicy food, and one of the first things she does in Inaba is going to shop for her spicy fix since her grandma has none at her house (and hoping she can find habanero sauce, her favorite).

 

==Literature==

** After a large meal that included a large amount of the sauce, Ridcully's uncle lit an after-dinner cigar and ''vanished in mysterious circumstances''. Well, not that mysterious: Wow-Wow sauce includes sulfur and saltpeter, and he had a charcoal biscuit before the cigar.

* A throwaway passage in [[Neal Stephenson]]'s ''[[The Diamond Age]]'' mentions a bottle of sandwich sauce containing "imported habanero peppers", "butts of clove cigarettes", "uranium mill tailings", "nitrates, nitrites, nitrotes and nitrutes, nutrites, natrotes..." and a [[Long List]] of similar items.

* Hotroot pepper in the ''[[Redwall]]'' books. Best guess is that "hotroot" is the local term for a type of horseradish. The otters love the stuff, especially in "shrimp'n'hotroot soup", and hold contests to see how much they can use at once.

* [[Jon A. Jackson]]'s ''[[Fang Mulheisen]]'' series of police novels feature a Mafia gangster named Umberto who is addicted to extremely strong Latin American chilli sauces.

 

* One Swedish Chef sketch on ''[[The Muppet Show]]'' has him making super-hot chili. At first, smoke comes out of his ears, but then, after he makes it even spicier, the top of his head blows off.

* The Observers in ''[[Fringe]]'' apparently have very little sense of taste. In one episode, an Observer has a rare roast beef sandwich covered in jalapeños, an entire shaker of pepper and most of a bottle of Tabasco sauce. In season 2, we see that Observers like to meet in an Indian restaurant and chow down on Naga Jolokia peppers.

* In ''[[Roswell]]'', the alien characters put Tabasco sauce on everything they eat, from hamburgers to chocolate cake. They prefer things to be a combination of "spicy and sweet".

* Thomas from ''[[Skins]]'' disposes of Johnny White by besting him in a chilli-eating contest. Johnny gingerly places a Naga Jolokia pepper (allegedly; [[MST3K Mantra|that's what it says in the show, just go with it]]) on his tongue and carefully, painfully, swallows it whole. Thomas grabs a handful and happily chews away, noting that his family used to grow them in his garden back in the Congo. Johnny's attempt to repeat this feat... goes poorly.

* The [[Food Network]] program ''Heat Seekers'' is all about this, with its hosts traveling around a city looking for the spiciest foods they can find. They run into the Jolokia variants nearly every single episode.

 

==Newspaper Comics==

* In a ''[[Blondie (comic strip)|Blondie]]'' strip, Dagwood goes to a chicken place where the hot wings come in four varieties, mild, hot, extra-hot, and "flaming napalm style". Ordering the last requires the customer to sign a waiver.

** In another strip, he tries making his own hot sauce, but it's SO hot the chicken melts before he can eat it.

 

* The Newcastle 'magmaloo' in a routine by [[Jasper Carrott]] (based on a real curry).

* Rondell Sheridan has a bit about when he tried to look like he spoke Spanish on vacation in Mexico, and ordered "mucho grande caliente" (essentially something very extremely hot) from a restaurant.

* ''[[Pokémon]]'' has at least a couple of berries such as the Tamato Berry that are heavy on the spiciness. From the Spelon Berry's description in particular:

{{quote|"So spicy is the Spelon Berry that, Fire type or not, Pokémon will try to breathe fire after eating a single one."}}

* The Jalapeño in ''[[Plants vs. Zombies]]'' can instantly burn all the zombies in a single lane.

* The curry item in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'' makes you spit fireballs that damage your enemies but not yourself. [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|Your character does a dance of pain while it's active, however...]]

{{quote|"You know those bottles of novelty hot sauce they sell, with the black labels and skulls and names like "Ed's Hot Sauce That Will Totally Murder Your Family"? Compared to this stuff, they're ketchup."}}

* In ''[[Quackshot]]'' and ''[[Deep Duck Trouble]]'', [[Donald Duck]] can eat peppers to become explosively angry and invincible.

 

==Web Comics==

* In ''[[Trollhunters]]'', Toby's Diablo Maximus Breakfast Burrito is an incredibly volatile entry, so much that Toby himself has spent ''years'' building up the tolerance needed to eat one. In one episode where Señor Uhl makes the mistake of confiscating and eating it, he spends the rest of the day alternating between the bathroom and downing entire cartons of milk in order to regain his ability to taste.

** In the [[Spin-Off]] ''3Below'', Toby is more than a little shocked when Aja eats one effortlessly with no ill effects and then ''goes back for seconds!'' Of course, Aja is an alien in human form, with far more tolerance for such things.

 

* There are innumerable brands of hot sauce out there with names like Torch, Hell's Breath, and the like. Most are the ''same sauce'' - as in made at the same time using the same recipe and by the same manufacturer. This naturally hasn't stopped hot sauce aficionados from getting into huge fights over which is the best.

* There are several real-life hot "sauces" that aren't actually sauces at all. Many manufacturers whose hot "sauces" skirt the upper limits of the Scoville scale advertise special "pure capsaicin hot sauces" that are [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|actually made of pure capsaicin that has been diluted with water or vegetable oil]]. However, such "sauces" are '''''lethally toxic''''' and thus '''''are not intended for actual human consumption'''''. They are novelty collector's items, not actual food additives, and thus only technically qualify as examples of this trope.

** There are tourist shops that specialize in hot sauces with various interesting labels: one in San Diego makes customers sign a waiver which basically states "I understand this is a "food additive," not a sauce, and I certify that I am not drunk right now" when they purchase the pure capsaicin bottles.

** [https://web.archive.org/web/20210307073653/https://eddie.in/404.html Here]{{Dead link}} (warning: [[Cluster F-Bomb|NSFW]]) is a [[Mushroom Samba|first-person]] [[Heroic RROD|perspective]] on eating a curry made with one of these nightmare "condiments".

* Mapo Doufu, a Chinese course, which [[That Other Wiki]] describes as "powerfully spicy" (using those exact words). It's popular enough in Japan to show up as the go-to example for hotly spiced food in [[Anime]], [[Manga]] and [[Visual Novel|visual novels]], such as in ''[[Angel Beats!]]!'' and ''[[Fate/stay night|Fate Stay Night]]''.

** Several regions in China are known for having extremely spicy cooking due to a combination of weather conditions, availability of spices, attuned palates and the occasional need to mask less than optimal ingredients. Sichuan cuisine in particular is infamous and a local joke says the people there essentially worry that a dish isn't spicy ''enough'', though the peppers responsible for the heat (and the blood red color of dishes that use lots of it) also have a numbing effect.

* In 2007, [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7025782.stm part of central London was evacuated] when fumes from a Thai restaurant cooking up a large batch of chilli sauce sparked fears of a chemical weapon attack.

** Very hot mustard is also commonly found in Russian cuisine. In Russia, you can buy this stuff in quite large jars cheaply.

 

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