Tejeños

[Subdeacon Joe]

As found on FB

 

"The Texas quote of the day is a good one. It was written in 1932  by Robert E. Howard,  author of Conan the Barbarian, in a letter to the famous horror novelist H.P. Lovecraft.

"Mexican dishes I enjoy, but they don't agree with me much. However I generally wrestle with them every time I go to the border. Tamales, enchilados, tacos, chili con carne to a lesser extent, barbecued goat-meat, tortillas, Spanish-cooked rice, frijoles - they play the devil with a white man's digestion, but they have a tang you seldom find in Anglo-Saxon cookery. You know a coyote nor a buzzard never will touch a Mexican's carcass - they can't stand the pepper he ate in his lifetime. The last time I was on the border I discovered one Pablo Ranes, whose dishes smoked with the concentrated essence of hell-fire. I returned to his abode of digestional-damnation until my once powerful constitution was but a shell of itself. I aided Pablo's atrocities with some wine bottled in Spain that kicked like an army mule, and eventually came to the conclusion that the border is a place only for men with cast-iron consciences and copper bellies."

Shown here: Robert E. Howard ---- who was born in Peaster, Texas and raised in Cross Plains, Texas ----  and his two neighbors, Leroy Butler and Leroy’s sister, Faustine, dressed as pirates. Robert E. Howard is on the right. Courtesy  Damon Sasser."

 

[Rip Snorter]

Many years back, at a business conference in Texas I watched a very senior manager and a young up and comer have an unofficial hot food eating contest.  Macho!  I like reasonably hot food, but touched one of the peppers they were chowing down to my tongue and the experience convinced me I wouldn't care to chew one.  I will never understand ultra hot recipes of any nationality.

[Pat Riot]

At one of the rail shops I worked at there was a “who can make and who can handle the hottest food” contest. 
This contest was between whites, blacks, Hispanics (mostly Mexican descent) and Asians (mostly Vietnamese).

I, as a supervisor, was asked to judge this competition. I declined as I do not like HOT food. Spicy? Yes. Scorching hot? No.

I pretty much stayed away from the contest as I wasn’t participating but I was there for the final showdown between one Mexican gent and one Vietnamese gent. 
The final feat was to eat peppers that were cultivated in Vietnam and imported. 
The Vietnamese gent won. He ate several while the Mexican gent bit into one, chewed a few times, gagged and spit out. 
It was agreed the hottest food was the food made and brought in by the Vietnamese guys and the winner of who could eat the hottest food was a Vietnamese fella.

 

 

[Rip Snorter]

Thai has a few doozies as well.  Used to be a Minneapolis restaurant that had a hot food eating contest with a cash prize.  Never gave it consideration, though I liked the place.

[Pat Riot]

29 minutes ago, Rip Snorter said:

Thai has a few doozies as well.  Used to be a Minneapolis restaurant that had a hot food eating contest with a cash prize.  Never gave it consideration, though I liked the place.

Oh my gawd, the hottest food I ever put in my mouth was Thai food. 
If you’ve ever seen the hot peppers scene in Dumb & Dumber that closely represented me in real life. Only I was drinking from the soda fountain behind the counter. 
Not knowing a thing about Thai food I ordered the best thing on the menu. I know it was the best because right next to the name of the meal in the menu it had 4 red stars…

It was the hottest thing on the menu, hence the 4 stars. 

[Subdeacon Joe]

I top out at a Serrano heat level.   And that only without the seeds and membranes.   

[Eyesa Horg]

1 hour ago, Pat Riot said:

At one of the rail shops I worked at there was a “who can make and who can handle the hottest food” contest. 
This contest was between whites, blacks, Hispanics (mostly Mexican descent) and Asians (mostly Vietnamese).

I, as a supervisor, was asked to judge this competition. I declined as I do not like HOT food. Spicy? Yes. Scorching hot? No.

I pretty much stayed away from the contest as I wasn’t participating but I was there for the final showdown between one Mexican gent and one Vietnamese gent. 
The final feat was to eat peppers that were cultivated in Vietnam and imported. 
The Vietnamese gent won. He ate several while the Mexican gent bit into one, chewed a few times, gagged and spit out. 
It was agreed the hottest food was the food made and brought in by the Vietnamese guys and the winner of who could eat the hottest food was a Vietnamese fella.

 

 

Helps cover the taste of dogs!

[Will Kane]

42 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:

Oh my gawd, the hottest food I ever put in my mouth was Thai food. 
If you’ve ever seen the hot peppers scene in Dumb & Dumber that closely represented me in real life. Only I was drinking from the soda fountain behind the counter. 
Not knowing a thing about Thai food I ordered the best thing on the menu. I know it was the best because right next to the name of the meal in the menu it had 4 red stars…

It was the hottest thing on the menu, hence the 4 stars. 

A man’s got to know his limitations, sir!

😬

[Pat Riot]

51 minutes ago, Eyesa Horg said:

Helps cover the taste of dogs!

Dog meat is tasty. Bought meat on a stick in the Philippines. Ate two. They were great. I was hungry. Saw another guy selling meat on a stick. Got 2 more. After I ate them the officer I was with told me the first 2 were dog, the second 2 were monkey. He could read Tagalog. 

[Eyesa Horg]

Never tried it to my knowledge. Did see some Dobermans hanging when I did phone work in the Vietnamese section of Hartford, CT.  It was a shock to say the least! There were very few dogs running loose in that area though compared to the rest of the ghetto!

[Blackwater 53393]

1 hour ago, Eyesa Horg said:

Helps cover the taste of dogs!

…or cat!!

 

A certain section of town, here in the Nashville area, suddenly experienced a significant decline in the cat population!!  A couple of months later, the health department closed down a few establishments that served Hindu/Indian cuisine!

[Texas Lizard]

10 minutes ago, Blackwater 53393 said:

…or cat!!

 

A certain section of town, here in the Nashville area, suddenly experienced a significant decline in the cat population!!  A couple of months later, the health department closed down a few establishments that served Hindu/Indian cuisine!

Did the population of cats go back up????

 

Texas Lizard

[Rip Snorter]

Years back a Chinese Restaurant in the town where I was on the PD was closed down after getting caught with cats in the freezer.  At least that was the story at the time, it was a pleasant place with pretty good food. Don't think I ever had cat.

[Blackwater 53393]

36 minutes ago, Texas Lizard said:

Did the population of cats go back up????

 

Texas Lizard

Not sure, but folks quit complaining about their cats wandering off and not coming back!! 🤣

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

22 hours ago, Eyesa Horg said:

Helps cover the taste of dogs!

On a Chinese menu, it is called fragrant meat.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

Original Tabasco sauce is as hot as I get.....generally.

[Rip Snorter]

Recent favorite Cholula, a little heat and some nice flavor.

[Blackwater 53393]

My buddy, former employer, and guitar player in my band couldn’t eat the chili and the stew that my brother and I would make in a crockpot at the shop where we worked.  He tried it several times, but it was just too hot for him!!

 

For Christmas one year, he gave us both special edition Dave’s Insanity Sauce. It comes in a bottle packed in a little wooden coffin. 🤣

 

After thirty years as friends and partners in music, he has begun to try other hot dishes and learned to eat hotter foods.

 

Recently, he asked if I would make him a batch of my chili.  It’s getting toward time for us to get together for a meal and I’m going to make up a batch just for him.

 

I still have that bottle of Dave’s. It’s unopened, but I bought myself another one and have used a dab in a dish or two. IT HAS NO FLAVOR!! It’s just bottled pepper spray.  In order to make foods palatable when using it, you have to use really flavorful ingredients and make judicious use of other peppers and spices.

 

I’ve had some Tejanos who say my chili is too hot and others who loved it!  If the chili you’re eating don’t put a little sweat on your forehead and neck, it’s just stew!

 

I’ve had Thai and Vietnamese foods a time or two and they are very hot, but the flavors are such that they are worth any discomfort I might have experienced.

 

 

Edited March 21 by Blackwater 53393