food_porn: oh dear lord

carlagaglione (

carlagaglione) wrote in

food_porn,
@ 2008-01-29 08:30:00

Current mood:

scared

oh dear lord
I am doing this: http://eastcoastgrill.net/main/hellnight.htm tomorrow night.
I simulataneously fear it and am looking forward to it.
there will be pics!

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	firefly062 2008-01-29 03:19 pm UTC (link)
	East Coast is my FAVORITE restaurant in Boston! I can't wait for the pics and a review!!! (Reply to this)

	lillbet 2008-01-29 03:27 pm UTC (link)
	Man, I miss Cambridge! Have fun :) (Reply to this)

	lilmisscupcake 2008-01-29 03:41 pm UTC (link)
	I've always kind of wanted to do that, but I'd be begging for the creamsicle after the first bite! (Reply to this)

	tattooedkingpin 2008-01-29 05:38 pm UTC (link)
	I know I might be in the minority, but I have to say - I've never seen the point in making food so spicy that you can't even really eat it. I mean, why not just pile hot sauce and habaneros on a slab of cardboard, and choke it down? I'm all for spicy food, just some things that get done in the name of heat kinda boggle my mind, lol. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	jimothyrawks 2008-01-29 08:14 pm UTC (link)
	large quantities of very hot foods release an endorphin normally used to relieve pain, while simultaneously not causing any legitimate pain. because of this, there is a sort of high that accompanies the ingestion of lots of capsicium (the chemical that makes spicy things spicy) that some people really enjoy. so there! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

tattooedkingpin
2008-01-29 08:30 pm UTC (link)

Yeah, I know that. Which is why I can understand it if someone wanted to down a ton of hotsauce or spicy peppers for a kick. It just seems silly to me to add it to food to such a point where all the other flavors of the food are completely obliterated.

I can't tell you how many meals I've had in restaurants that I've been totally psyched to eat, but the amount of heat added in the kitchen prevented me from even finishing half of the dish. And I'm no lightweight, either. I enjoy spicy food - but when my mouth is virtually numb from the spice, that's not good eats.

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	carlagaglione 2008-01-29 09:05 pm UTC (link)
	it's part sadistic thrill, part frat party...it's not so much the food as it is the experience. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tattooedkingpin 2008-01-29 09:08 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, I can dig it. I'd probably enjoy trying to withstand it too. Just sometimes I wonder about the cook when it's not about the experience, ya know? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

carlagaglione
2008-01-29 09:12 pm UTC (link)

eh...seeing as how that's not really the focus of it, I could really care less about what other chefs do any other night of the week. If it really doesn't affect me, I see no reason to fret about what others are doing, I leave it to those that it happens to :)
Seriously...focus, the post is on HELL NIGHT, something with a theme and purpose...something I am expecting....!!!
Capisce?

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badseed1980
2008-01-29 09:06 pm UTC (link)

I've had one or two dishes like that, and I agree that if you can't really taste anything but can only feel HEAT, it's not worth it. If I am just after an endorphin rush, well, that's what floggers are for. If I go to East Coast Grill, which I almost certainly will someday, it being so near me, I will not go on Hell Night unless someone else is paying and I have tasty food at home.

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	tattooedkingpin 2008-01-29 09:10 pm UTC (link)
	Floggers are always preferable to really really hot hotsauce. Now using them together? Whooooo.... :) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	ankie 2008-01-30 12:43 am UTC (link)
	I think some people just have a higher heat tolerance ;) I sometimes make hot food for my friend and me and she can't get the full taste because it's too hot for her. So you might not perceive some of the taste that others do :) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	carlagaglione 2008-01-29 09:07 pm UTC (link)
	endorphins FTFW! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	qwrrty 2008-01-29 07:42 pm UTC (link)
	Good luck! My better half, who grew up in Texas and is as enthusiastic a chilehead as I have ever met, did the East Coast Grill's Hell Night a few years ago and got, frankly, chiled out. She came home with capscaisin exhaustion. I still wanna do it, though :-) (Reply to this)(Thread)

	carlagaglione 2008-01-29 09:06 pm UTC (link)
	I felt the same way, as I trained last night with much Scorned Woman sauce, hot and cold and then utterly exhausted. I sometimes wonder if I'm really thirty and mature, but be willing to try this. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	yikes! lucyloveslave 2008-01-29 09:04 pm UTC (link)
	what a fun restaurant! I love places like that. Good food that doesnt take itself too seriously. (Reply to this)

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