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A local fried chicken restaurant calls their spiciest chicken WNFA (we're not fucking around), and it's exactly as it says on the tin. When I have enough of it

A local fried chicken restaurant calls their spiciest chicken WNFA (we're not fucking around), and it's exactly as it says on the tin. When I have enough of it and I've gotten past the initial "why am I doing this? this is stupid, I should stop," I genuinely experience a form of euphoria. The next day is sheer hell though, so I don't do it often. And that's how boring my life is, occasionally eating fried chicken to get mildly high.

JasonFruit 4y ago
I'm assuming you mean fried chicken: you should only eat food chicken, not friend chicken.
- FredPret 4y ago
  Chicken as cattle not pet?
  - Crespyl 4y ago
    Truly a fowl play. I wonder if we ever start to see application-specific biocomputing systems integrated into server farms, we might really start calling our servers "livestock".
- CaptainNegative 4y ago
  friends not food
  - nobody9999 4y ago
    >friends not food Mildly OT, but reminds me of this iconic scene[0] from Roger & Me[1]. In some ways, (the movie[1], not the clip[0]) doesn't hold up too well. In others, it's still spot on IMHO. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6ff68dXFsc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6ff68dXFsc [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_%26_Me https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_%26_Me
    - xsmasher 4y ago
      I had a vague memory of this scene, but had not seen it in decades. In my memory she was an older woman; seeing it now, the woman looks so young. Also TIL there is a follow-up short film called "Pets or Meat" https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-09-27-tv-24-story.html https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-09-27-tv-24-sto...
- SketchySeaBeast 4y ago
  Haha, yes, yes I do. We actually raised and slaughtered chickens growing up and I refused to eat them because I called them my friends, so doubly yes.
  - JasonFruit 4y ago
    We raised chickens when I was a kid, and I still raise meat animals today. When I was quite young, meaning no harm, I wrote the name of one of the chickens on the package, to the horror of my sisters. They promptly wrote the same name on all the packages. I've since learned a little more sympathy for people who fall more on the friend side of the friend/food continuum.
    - SketchySeaBeast 4y ago
      Yeah, I grew up around it, but never learned to stomach slaughtering animals myself.
- justinator 4y ago
  I just watched a Netflix mini series about a guy who kept eating his friends to feel euphoric.
tunap 4y ago
Following extra spicy foods with a pint or two of milk neutralizes the post pyrotechnics, for me. If lactose intolerant, sugar works, but not as well(Perhaps in large/unhealthy quantity?). YMMV. Edit: I always presumed the high after spicy food was endorphins.
- oxfeed65261 4y ago
  Basically, as I understand it, capsaicin can be psychoactive in the same sense that, for example, running or BDSM can be psychoactive: an endorphin rush which can cause a feeling of euphoria.
  - HPsquared 4y ago
    Or a cold shower.
    - SwiftyBug 4y ago
      Cold showers are known to be a gateway drug to crack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDx6ai-HA1M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDx6ai-HA1M
- jrs235 4y ago
  >Edit: I always presumed the high after spicy food was endorphins. That was my assumption too.
- deleted 4y ago
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- SketchySeaBeast 4y ago
  The milk helps some, but in my experience on absolutely can blow past that point so that the next day you're getting the same tingles from the other end.
asdff 4y ago
Good fried chicken is like a narcotic, it can just knock you out. The Boondocks have an episode about it called "The Itis" and the effect is very real.
nsxwolf 4y ago
When I get a really good spicy time going, I get a kind of tunnel vision and feel like I'm in an altered state. Space and time seem different. I used to think I had no limits until I ate a Carolina Reaper whole. The pain in my mouth was tolerable, but it caused a stomach pain that felt like my gallbladder had returned, lasting for one absolutely hellish hour.
moojd 4y ago
If you want to experience a pepper rush with minimal topical pain and maximum enjoyment, buy/grow some fresh Carolina reapers and let them soak in a bottle of vodka or tequila for a couple of days. You can actually taste the pepper beyond the heat and still get a nice endorphin rush when you take a shot of it. It's also great for spicy margaritas
- Mistletoe 4y ago
  Do you know a good source for seeds? I bought some on the internet once and they turned out to be green Serranos lol.
  - albertsondev 4y ago
    Straight from the PuckerButt Pepper Company! They're the ones who bred the Reaper and offer seeds, mashes, and sauces alike.
    - moojd 4y ago
      Yep, this is where I get mine
  - milkshakes 4y ago
    pepperjoe
  - squarefoot 4y ago
    https://premierseedsdirect.com/ https://premierseedsdirect.com/ (UK) I bought various chili types seeds in the past from them without any problems.
  - niij 4y ago
    Baker Creek Seed Co (rareseeds.com) is my favorite place to order seeds from. Nice family run business with an absolutely massive selection of seeds. Free shipping. Their free color catalog just came out last week: https://www.rareseeds.com/requestcat/catalog/ https://www.rareseeds.com/requestcat/catalog/ Carolina reapers: https://www.rareseeds.com/carolina-reaper-hot-pepper https://www.rareseeds.com/carolina-reaper-hot-pepper
SoftAnnaLee 4y ago
I believe I have been to the same restaurant you're referring to, and honestly I believe that the WNFA chicken is likely to be a psychoactive substance. I've only had the barest bite of it, and it is enough to scar me mentally; and to eat an entire meal seems like it would be prone to mind-altering, just like how a stab wound is body altering. Hyperbole aside, it is interesting to see the sheer breadth in tolerance across friends and family. I'm far from a spice masochist, but I've never shied away from heat since my teenage years. What I find more interesting is the amount of stereotypical spice and heat avoidance I've seen from white family and friends; an example of which I recently heard from a friend, “I don't add spice to my chili, since I know some people don't like that.” I'm genuinely confused by people who avoid adding additional flavour to their food. Heat avoidance I can understand to an extent, some folks are more sensitive to heat and pain sensations than others. But spice avoidance even from your garden variety spices genuinely befuddles me; and I can not understand how some people do not come across using things like Rosemary, Basil, or Cumin in their cooking.
- joenot443 4y ago
  > I can not understand how some people do not come across using things like Rosemary, Basil, or Cumin in their cooking. I'll explain it to you :) I think a lot of people cook how their parents cook. I taught my mom how to better season her cooking, to great success, but I don't blame her for not ever really learning. She learned from my grandma who spent her life on a tiny farm in the prairies, I'd be surprised if they came across cumin very often. So, you grow up eating beef and vegetables seasoned with salt and pepper and homemade butter and eventually your palate doesn't really require the same stimulation and variety that people with access to more varied ingredients do. It's not that plain-eating-folks aren't aware there's more variety out there, but if they've spent their whole life _without_ those other options, it's just not something their body naturally want. As someone who appreciates music, it'd be easy for me to look down upon those with less developed palates, but to what end? People enjoy what they enjoy, I don't think there's any superiority to be had in liking basil just like there's no superiority to be had in liking djent.
  - ransom1538 4y ago
sokoloff 4y ago
There's a small chain in Vegas, Houston's Hot Chicken; their hottest spice is called "Houston, we have a Problem!" which always amuses me.
EdwardDiego 4y ago
I feel sorry for your lower intestinal tract.
- SketchySeaBeast 4y ago
  I like to think of it as nature's way of telling me not to do it so often.
smeagull 4y ago
I don't doubt it. I've had one experience with smelling a bowl that had some mexican style dish with habaneros over it. Just the smell made me salivate so much I could feel it in the back of my mouth as a pleasurable anticipation.
teaearlgraycold 4y ago
Somehow I don’t have much trouble with spicy food in subsequent bathroom trips. Guess I’m just lucky.
_8j50 4y ago
Yes sir! Good food makes you cry and weep. It is not mere nourishment but an experience dividing the mind and the senses. A test(taste) of your will. A committment to live now and today because tomorrow the ass will be decimated. Checkout Mad Dog 357: https://maddog357.com/ https://maddog357.com/ it's the real deal.
martin1975 4y ago
Dave's Hot Chicken in SoCal uses carolina reapers to spice their most spicy fried chicken. I really couldn't finish more than 1/3 of it. I've no idea how people eat this and remain unhurt.
- clairity 4y ago
  dave's doesn't seem to do so any longer, but makes you sign a "waiver" for the hottest spice levels now even though they've toned it down quite a bit at this point. howlin' rays (which dave's copied) still uses carolina reapers and is no joke with it's howlin' spice level.

JasonFruit 4y ago

I'm assuming you mean fried chicken: you should only eat food chicken, not friend chicken.

FredPret 4y ago
Chicken as cattle not pet?
- Crespyl 4y ago
  Truly a fowl play. I wonder if we ever start to see application-specific biocomputing systems integrated into server farms, we might really start calling our servers "livestock".
CaptainNegative 4y ago
friends not food
- nobody9999 4y ago
  >friends not food Mildly OT, but reminds me of this iconic scene[0] from Roger & Me[1]. In some ways, (the movie[1], not the clip[0]) doesn't hold up too well. In others, it's still spot on IMHO. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6ff68dXFsc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6ff68dXFsc [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_%26_Me https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_%26_Me
  - xsmasher 4y ago
    I had a vague memory of this scene, but had not seen it in decades. In my memory she was an older woman; seeing it now, the woman looks so young. Also TIL there is a follow-up short film called "Pets or Meat" https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-09-27-tv-24-story.html https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-09-27-tv-24-sto...
SketchySeaBeast 4y ago
Haha, yes, yes I do. We actually raised and slaughtered chickens growing up and I refused to eat them because I called them my friends, so doubly yes.
- JasonFruit 4y ago
  We raised chickens when I was a kid, and I still raise meat animals today. When I was quite young, meaning no harm, I wrote the name of one of the chickens on the package, to the horror of my sisters. They promptly wrote the same name on all the packages. I've since learned a little more sympathy for people who fall more on the friend side of the friend/food continuum.
  - SketchySeaBeast 4y ago
    Yeah, I grew up around it, but never learned to stomach slaughtering animals myself.
justinator 4y ago
I just watched a Netflix mini series about a guy who kept eating his friends to feel euphoric.

tunap 4y ago

Following extra spicy foods with a pint or two of milk neutralizes the post pyrotechnics, for me. If lactose intolerant, sugar works, but not as well(Perhaps in large/unhealthy quantity?). YMMV. Edit: I always presumed the high after spicy food was endorphins.

oxfeed65261 4y ago
Basically, as I understand it, capsaicin can be psychoactive in the same sense that, for example, running or BDSM can be psychoactive: an endorphin rush which can cause a feeling of euphoria.
- HPsquared 4y ago
  Or a cold shower.
  - SwiftyBug 4y ago
    Cold showers are known to be a gateway drug to crack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDx6ai-HA1M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDx6ai-HA1M
jrs235 4y ago
>Edit: I always presumed the high after spicy food was endorphins. That was my assumption too.
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SketchySeaBeast 4y ago
The milk helps some, but in my experience on absolutely can blow past that point so that the next day you're getting the same tingles from the other end.

asdff 4y ago

Good fried chicken is like a narcotic, it can just knock you out. The Boondocks have an episode about it called "The Itis" and the effect is very real.

nsxwolf 4y ago

When I get a really good spicy time going, I get a kind of tunnel vision and feel like I'm in an altered state. Space and time seem different. I used to think I had no limits until I ate a Carolina Reaper whole. The pain in my mouth was tolerable, but it caused a stomach pain that felt like my gallbladder had returned, lasting for one absolutely hellish hour.

moojd 4y ago

If you want to experience a pepper rush with minimal topical pain and maximum enjoyment, buy/grow some fresh Carolina reapers and let them soak in a bottle of vodka or tequila for a couple of days. You can actually taste the pepper beyond the heat and still get a nice endorphin rush when you take a shot of it. It's also great for spicy margaritas

Mistletoe 4y ago
Do you know a good source for seeds? I bought some on the internet once and they turned out to be green Serranos lol.
- albertsondev 4y ago
  Straight from the PuckerButt Pepper Company! They're the ones who bred the Reaper and offer seeds, mashes, and sauces alike.
  - moojd 4y ago
    Yep, this is where I get mine
- milkshakes 4y ago
  pepperjoe
- squarefoot 4y ago
  https://premierseedsdirect.com/ https://premierseedsdirect.com/ (UK) I bought various chili types seeds in the past from them without any problems.
- niij 4y ago
  Baker Creek Seed Co (rareseeds.com) is my favorite place to order seeds from. Nice family run business with an absolutely massive selection of seeds. Free shipping. Their free color catalog just came out last week: https://www.rareseeds.com/requestcat/catalog/ https://www.rareseeds.com/requestcat/catalog/ Carolina reapers: https://www.rareseeds.com/carolina-reaper-hot-pepper https://www.rareseeds.com/carolina-reaper-hot-pepper

SoftAnnaLee 4y ago

I believe I have been to the same restaurant you're referring to, and honestly I believe that the WNFA chicken is likely to be a psychoactive substance. I've only had the barest bite of it, and it is enough to scar me mentally; and to eat an entire meal seems like it would be prone to mind-altering, just like how a stab wound is body altering. Hyperbole aside, it is interesting to see the sheer breadth in tolerance across friends and family. I'm far from a spice masochist, but I've never shied away from heat since my teenage years. What I find more interesting is the amount of stereotypical spice and heat avoidance I've seen from white family and friends; an example of which I recently heard from a friend, “I don't add spice to my chili, since I know some people don't like that.” I'm genuinely confused by people who avoid adding additional flavour to their food. Heat avoidance I can understand to an extent, some folks are more sensitive to heat and pain sensations than others. But spice avoidance even from your garden variety spices genuinely befuddles me; and I can not understand how some people do not come across using things like Rosemary, Basil, or Cumin in their cooking.

joenot443 4y ago
> I can not understand how some people do not come across using things like Rosemary, Basil, or Cumin in their cooking. I'll explain it to you :) I think a lot of people cook how their parents cook. I taught my mom how to better season her cooking, to great success, but I don't blame her for not ever really learning. She learned from my grandma who spent her life on a tiny farm in the prairies, I'd be surprised if they came across cumin very often. So, you grow up eating beef and vegetables seasoned with salt and pepper and homemade butter and eventually your palate doesn't really require the same stimulation and variety that people with access to more varied ingredients do. It's not that plain-eating-folks aren't aware there's more variety out there, but if they've spent their whole life _without_ those other options, it's just not something their body naturally want. As someone who appreciates music, it'd be easy for me to look down upon those with less developed palates, but to what end? People enjoy what they enjoy, I don't think there's any superiority to be had in liking basil just like there's no superiority to be had in liking djent.
- ransom1538 4y ago

sokoloff 4y ago

There's a small chain in Vegas, Houston's Hot Chicken; their hottest spice is called "Houston, we have a Problem!" which always amuses me.

EdwardDiego 4y ago

I feel sorry for your lower intestinal tract.

SketchySeaBeast 4y ago
I like to think of it as nature's way of telling me not to do it so often.

smeagull 4y ago

I don't doubt it. I've had one experience with smelling a bowl that had some mexican style dish with habaneros over it. Just the smell made me salivate so much I could feel it in the back of my mouth as a pleasurable anticipation.

teaearlgraycold 4y ago

Somehow I don’t have much trouble with spicy food in subsequent bathroom trips. Guess I’m just lucky.

_8j50 4y ago

Yes sir! Good food makes you cry and weep. It is not mere nourishment but an experience dividing the mind and the senses. A test(taste) of your will. A committment to live now and today because tomorrow the ass will be decimated. Checkout Mad Dog 357: https://maddog357.com/ https://maddog357.com/ it's the real deal.

martin1975 4y ago

Dave's Hot Chicken in SoCal uses carolina reapers to spice their most spicy fried chicken. I really couldn't finish more than 1/3 of it. I've no idea how people eat this and remain unhurt.

clairity 4y ago
dave's doesn't seem to do so any longer, but makes you sign a "waiver" for the hottest spice levels now even though they've toned it down quite a bit at this point. howlin' rays (which dave's copied) still uses carolina reapers and is no joke with it's howlin' spice level.