Hot sauce is worldwide, and the proof continues to roll in. Having just completed our own Fiery Foods Show and with another one crankin’ up to speed in NM, we bring you this story about one from the land Down Under out of http://www.theage.com.au:

Looking for some hot stuff? Jeff Megahan found it - and immense pain - at a fiery foods festival.

IT WAS A dare. Squirt a trail of brown liquid onto a tortilla chip and ease it into my mouth. The liquid, which looked and tasted like motor oil, instantly catapulted me into an other-worldly state of misery and regret. For an agonising 15 minutes, I stumbled dumbly in pain before uttering: “At is uh ‘ottest ‘auce I e’er ate.”

I was not alone. Throughout the day, this stunt was repeated countless times by the culinary skydivers at the Jindivick Hot Sauce and Fiery Foods Festival. Now in its eighth year, this remote paddock outside a little country town north of Warragul has become a mecca for Victoria’s hot sauce aficionados. They come to test their courage, their capacity for pain and the patience of their tolerant and bewildered partners.

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This quote was interesting about the chile pepper eating contest:

“Last year, the winner of the chilli-eating contest ate 12 chillies,” said the taunting host, prompting a teary-eyed contestant to wonder aloud: “Yeah, but where is he now?”

Hey, I made it back to the next year’s contest in my hometown. I guess the Aussie champ must have retired at the top of his game…LOL!

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