Random Thought Thread

I like hot stuff, but only if it also has a good flavor. To me, most of the reaper/scorpion/ghost peppers are just all heat and not much flavor. I've tried a LOT of different hot sauces, but my favorite by far is the Chipotle Habenero Pepper sauce from Arizona Gunslinger, which I order by the quart:

<https://azgunslinger.com/store/pepper-sauces/chipotle-habanero-pepper-sauce/>

I like the very short ingredient list: ripened habenero peppers, red ripened jalapeno peppers, vinegar, chipotle peppers, salt.

P.S. I have no relationship to this company other than being a happy customer.
 
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000Robert said:
I've heard stories similar to that and I don't believe them. I have been eating hot peppers my entire life. I've eaten them all over this country when I drove big trucks. I also lived in New Mexico for about one year. I have never eaten a habanero, or a sauce made with them, that was hot to me. They don't even come close to the heat of a Carolina Reaper pepper.
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There have been recent reports of a Dragon's Breath pepper claiming to be hotter than the Carolina Reaper. Preliminary testing of the Dragon's Breath pepper pegs it at 2,483,584 SHU which would blow the Carolina Reaper out of the water. 🥵
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
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I have had this damn metal chip in my sock pricking my foot all day. I thought it was my sciatica messing up.
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Sciatica=No bueno. I just had a microdiscectomy done 2 and a half months remove multiple disc fragments from a severe herniated disc. Fragments were resting on different areas of my Sciatic nerve and the broken part of the disc itself was resting on the nerve. Sciatica was unbearable and kept me out of work for 3 months. Finally got back to work a month ago.
 
I was washing my hands in a restroom in a restaurant in Atlanta a few months ago. They had "soft soap" liquid soap in their soap dispenser. You could tell that's what it was. It has a particular appearance, smell and an infuriating inability to rinse it off. You have to stand there and rinse and scrub under the water a long time to remove most of it, which sucks when you have lower back problems and bending and reaching for extended periods causes you problems. Especially when it's for something as stupid as soap that's designed to leave a nasty residue on your hands. Because someone somewhere thinks your hand soap should also be a shitty "lotion". Holy damn it's just nasty. It's one of my least favorite things.

Anyways. After standing there at the sink attempting to get this nasty substance off my hands. I should also mention I was quite drunk by this point. I turn to leave and between the time spent attempting to decontaminate my hands from this "soap", my increasing irritation and elevated inebriation and distraction I momentarily forgot which door was the exit and instead of turning at the end of the room to leave I attempted to go straight thought the door that was there that turned out to be an occupied stall. The person in the stall wasn't pleased by my (somewhat aggressive) attempts to enter his stall and he so he exited the stall, gave me a look, said something to me that I can't remember and left the bathroom. Demonstrating the location of the exit in the process. And I followed. As I returned to our table, I noticed him returning to where he apparently worked in the kitchen. It was one of those open kitchens where you could see from your table. He had returned to working on people's food after a visit to the restroom. Doing whatever it was that he was doing in the stall. Without "washing" his hands.

How revolting and nasty.

The soft soap I mean.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
I was washing my hands in a restroom in a restaurant in Atlanta a few months ago. They had "soft soap" liquid soap in their soap dispenser. You could tell that's what it was. It has a particular appearance, smell and an infuriating inability to rinse it off. You have to stand there and rinse and scrub under the water a long time to remove most of it, which sucks when you have lower back problems and bending and reaching for extended periods causes you problems. Especially when it's for something as stupid as soap that's designed to leave a nasty residue on your hands. Because someone somewhere thinks your hand soap should also be a shitty "lotion". Holy damn it's just nasty. It's one of my least favorite things.

Anyways. After standing there at the sink attempting to get this nasty substance off my hands. I should also mention I was quite drunk by this point. I turn to leave and between the time spent attempting to decontaminate my hands from this "soap", my increasing irritation and elevated inebriation and distraction I momentarily forgot which door was the exit and instead of turning at the end of the room to leave I attempted to go straight thought the door that was there that turned out to be an occupied stall. The person in the stall wasn't pleased by my (somewhat aggressive) attempts to enter his stall and he so he exited the stall, gave me a look, said something to me that I can't remember and left the bathroom. Demonstrating the location of the exit in the process. And I followed. As I returned to our table, I noticed him returning to where he apparently worked in the kitchen. It was one of those open kitchens where you could see from your table. He had returned to working on people's food after a visit to the restroom. Doing whatever it was that he was doing in the stall. Without "washing" his hands.

How revolting and nasty.

The soft soap I mean.
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i‘ll recommend the Wash. DC, Hard Rock Cafe (near Ford’s Theater)
I visited the gentlemen’s room, which was attended to by an engaging man with a comb, towel, and spritz of fragrance.
OK, I’ll admit it, that was a first for me, and I felt special.
A bit later there was a commotion in another area. Quite loud and clearly emotional voices!!
According to our waiter, a couple’s young sons went unattended to the boy‘s room, and an old man tried to give them candy!!
They need a sign.
 
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