Quote from Khristian Kim on September 5, 2023, 2:06 pm

Back in 2015, my senior prom was coming up. I remember chilling at Jameson’s house with my old friend David. We were just chatting when all of a sudden Jameson had this great idea to bet me to eat a pickle coated with a cocktail of his hottest hot sauces.

I remember seeing him add an alarming amount of hot sauce on that little dill pickle. There was $60 on the line though, so I wasn’t about to chicken out. Without thinking, I just stuffed it in my mouth and pretended the hot sauce wasn’t even there.

Spicy stuff at that level doesn’t even hit you until 10 minutes later. You’ll be sitting there thinking you’re the toughest person ever. “Man that pickle wasn’t sh*t,” I thought to myself. Horrible mistake.

I felt waves of burning pain radiate through my mouth. It was intense, not a normal spicy food spice. It was like a handful of bees stinging my tongue. I remember Jameson telling me to try putting all sorts of different things on my tongue to soothe the pain. Ice, milk, sugar, bread, mustard(?!); none of it worked.

I remember the pain being so intense, I started dissociating. It felt like I was watching a movie of what was happening. Reasonably, I took a break from spicy stuff for a while after that.

Easiest $60 of my life.