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You need to try this:
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It comes with a nice friendly warning:
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And so with fear in my heart, a clear pathway to the bathroom, and a glass of milk handy, I broke one open.

They're formed much like a Hershey's chocolate bar, with the little rectangles formed into it. So I busted off one end of rectangles, broke off a single rectangle and took a bite. That first moment you can tell it's quality chocolate, and not your average super processed bullshit you can get anywhere. The sweats hit you long before you pick up more than a hint of the heat about to wash over you. It's actually a number of seconds before it's anything more than a pleasant tingle on the tongue. Which gives false hope so I popped off another chunk and ate it slowly. Now the heat begins to build, but still remains pleasant enough.

For a few more seconds. The heat doesn't really start pouring on until the chocolate is gone. The capsaicin lingers long after the chocolate flavor fades and gives you the sense that the heat is continuing to build, and build, AND BUILD. It wasn't quite panic inducing, but would be to someone that isn't a heat lover to begin with. It took about half a glass of milk just to knock the edge off of it, and the whole glass before true relief set in.

This is not a "sit and eat the whole thing at once" chocolate bar. I'm thinking it could be a nice addition to a mole sauce that you wanted to have kicked up a notch. Or add a little bit to a nice chili that seems just a touch bland. Broken up into ice cream would probably be pretty cool too.

Highly recommended. Use them to prank friends. Hand them out to those annoying neighbor kids that keep fucking with your dog. Give them to your mom after her latest lecture about what a waste your life is. Or just treat yourself to heat blast chocolate. :thu:

WARNING: I'm actually used to a few reaper hot sauces. Anybody that isn't, probably shouldn't bother stepping up to this plate. These bars are way more brutal than any reaper sauce I've tasted.
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Looks like a fun chocolate bar. FYI spice is what we call bath salts here in the UK so the thread title made me do a lol :lol:
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Zozobra wrote:Looks like a fun chocolate bar. FYI spice is what we call bath salts here in the UK so the thread title made me do a lol :lol:

Wasn't aware of that one. :lol:
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Will it kill the virus though.
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Bonano wrote:Will it kill the virus though.

You never know.
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Prank your friends! :lol:

Man, it took me a week to eat a bag of Paqui Haunted Ghost Pepper Chips... if you needed milk to eat two squares of that chocolate, I doubt I could ever finish that bar! :eek:
The local Home Depot has had these on the shelf for so long, they're now expired. Everyone is afraid to buy them.
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ajaxlepinski wrote:Prank your friends! :lol:

Man, it took me a week to eat a bag of Paqui Haunted Ghost Pepper Chips... if you needed milk to eat two squares of that chocolate, I doubt I could ever finish that bar! :eek:
The local Home Depot has had these on the shelf for so long, they're now expired. Everyone is afraid to buy them.
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The last time I went to the grocery store before the lock-down happened I saw they had these and was sorely tempted.

The nice thing with chips like that is you can justify having some cheese on standby to go with them. Hard to justify chocolate and cheese though.

Ghost peppers: 855,000 - 1,041,427 SHU
Carolina Reaper: Tops out at 1,569,300 SHU

Though in all honesty, once you hit 1 million, it's all just a blur of pain and flavor. My "normal" heat levels for average, everyday popping is more along the lines of Habanero. They hit 100,000–350,000 SHU. Plenty of heat, yet you can still taste the other flavors there.

I've heard stories of trinidad scorpions crossed with reapers being so potent they melt latex gloves while working with them. That seems a step too far for me. :blush:
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I love spicy food but I have to say no to anything that involves ghost peppers or Carolina reapers. My asshole thanks me in advance. :eek:
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I think there was a cable (satellite?) television channel called SPICE back in the day as well.
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JiveTurkey wrote:I think there was a cable (satellite?) television channel called SPICE back in the day as well.

Yes. They had a tremendously good wrestling show.
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:lol:
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Around 10 years ago we went to a local Indian restaurant where you could have them vary the hotness of the dish. Being a Hispanic lover of hot food, I ordered a 7, which the owner tried to talk me out of. They finally brought me something that may have been a 4 or 5, which wasn't all that hot.

On the way out he asked if it was hot enough, and I told him no. He proceeded to pull out a small, pale pepper, cut a tiny bit off and hand it to me. I popped it in my mouth and my head nearly exploded. Turned out it was a ghost pepper, which is I think now number 2 on the Scoville scale.

No wonder the Israelis tried to weaponize them for crowd control.
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Straight ghost pepper is damn brutal. That dude was pure evil.
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