• CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    $1 Million dollars is a lot of money and with these options you’re risks are: overdoing a pleasant snack (onion), discovering a new delicacy (century egg), an unpleasant flavor and texture (grub), or like twenty cumulative minutes of fiery pain (carolina reaper).

    For $100, none of these are worth it unless we’re allowed to prepare them in some sort of dish. For $1000, I’ll eat a raw onion. For $10,000, anything but the grub, even all three.

    For $1 Million? I’ll eat all four of these, raw (possibly wriggling), and ask for seconds, if required. I’d be a fool to do otherwise.

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      2 hours ago

      or like twenty cumulative minutes of fiery pain (carolina reaper).

      For a single reaper, sure. For the entire container of them that’s probably at least the rest of your day ruined.

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      13 hours ago

      I paid to eat bugs from a food cart in Thailand, though they were cooked and seasoned.

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      17 hours ago

      When it comes to really hot peppers, its more than the pain going in. They strike again on the other end. I didn’t think about that the first time I ate a ghost pepper and then spent the next day roaming around Washington DC.

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        17 hours ago

        For me it’s the heartburn and the hiccups. My mouth and anus can take the hottest peppers in the world, the rest of me really can’t.

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          Oof. I can’t imagine that kind of heartburn. I’ve only had normal hb once from too many chicken wings but I do remember feeling like my stomach was empty all day even after eating food. It made me feel a bit weak for several hours.

    • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works
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      False. Any dollar amount over like $20 and the onion is a good choice unless you must eat the skin. I’m which case IDK a hundo is probably sufficient.