CaJohns‘ new chili parlour received quite a great write-up in the most recent edition of the Columbus Alive paper, which we happily bring to your attention. We’ve nibble on some of the selection, and they are all that and a bag of (tortilla) chips:

Chili-out

By G.A. Benton

When a hot sauce at the terrific North Market shop called CaJohn’s says on its label it contains the world’s hottest pepper, believe it. Do not — like a certain goofily grinning, thick-headed idiot I know (OK, me) — allow hubris to define your next action.

Because even the teensiest possible pinpoint of that blazing, wicked stuff barely spotting the end of a pretzel stick will, when applied to a stupidly outstretched tongue, induce convulsions of pure agony. Will initiate a penetrating self-hatred. Will force a dancing outburst of the Watusi. Will cause a usually gentle adult to knock over grandmothers and small children in an ugly and wobbly sprint to buy ice cream.

So take my advice and do not try anything at CaJohn’s that says it’s made with the hottest pepper in the world. But do try about everything else. Because this family-run, nationally lauded operation (winner of more than 100 country-wide first-place awards) has lots of other great hot sauces, salsas and chili kits that are packed with flavor but nowhere near as incendiary as that burnin’-like-Chernobyl stuff I unwisely sampled.

Click here to read the rest of the source article from the Columbus Alive paper