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== Hot Stuff in [[Real Life]] ==
* Many types of hot peppers, particularly habanero and more particularly the Scotch Bonnet variety of habanero. It's a tiny round thing with a festive orange color that looks quite harmless, but causes really severe pain to the unprepared (like [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8ip5oGlMfU this guy]). You need to build up a serious capsaicin tolerance before you can appreciate the delicious smoky taste.
* There's apparently one type of hot pepper called
* If you don't just want to take a bite of a super-hot pepper but want to try a super-hot ''full meal'', then British-Asian cuisine is the place to be. Specifically the [https://web.archive.org/web/20130724032804/http://curryaddicts.co.uk/phaal.php phaal.]<ref>It's basically just bits of chicken drowned in [[Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce]].</ref> Have a glass of milk handy. Even beer won't do any good, and water might even make things worse.
* A restaurant chain in the US now serves "[http://www.nrn.com/FoodWatch.aspx?id=376730&menu_id=1532 triple atomic wings]{{Dead link}}" for masochists to numb their mouths and clear their sinuses with.
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* In ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' Sokka cannot stand the heat of the Fire Nation delicacy fire flakes, although Mai has no problem snacking on them.
* On ''[[Regular Show]]'', Benson, Mordecai and Rigby get involved in a hot sauce driking contest, and their last course is a concoction their rival calls "Mississippi Queen", consisting of a whole bunch of hot sauces mixed in a large sifter. All three drink it down and at first feel just fine. Then the hallucinations start.
* ''[[Star Trek: Lower Decks]]''; in the episode "Grounded", the main cast is eating at a Cajun restaurant that has Ketracel White-Hot sauce, the label claiming it has 17,000,000 Scoville Heat Units. [[Beyond the Impossible| (That's about a million more than pure capsaicin, the scale's theoretical limit.)]] Putting one drop on his gumbo causes Boimler to collapse after 30 seconds of agony; Mariner, on the other hand, ''puts the whole bottle'' on hers and calls it a "nice kick".
== Other Dodgy Foods in [[Real Life]] ==
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=== [[Newspaper Comics]] ===
* ''[[Garfield]]'':
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** In [https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1985/08/15 another strip], he tries Jon's lemonade; it ''really'' needs sugar.
=== [[Tabletop Game]]s ===
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