Heat!

Say what you will about spicy food, but I hated it as a kid. Anything that had a remotely spicy taste to it wouldn’t get eaten by me. Including anything that had regular old black pepper on it. It was that bad.

And now, it has all changed. The culprit: Sriracha sauce ¹.

I couldn’t tell you when the first time I tried Sriracha was, but all I can say is that it was bound to happen. I mean, it’s on every table in pretty much every asian restaurant. I’m only human and curiousness is a disease. So I tried it, then I tried it again, so on and so forth until I bought a bottle for myself at home, and that was that. That was a few years ago. Today, I add heat to most of what I eat. I don’t only have Sriracha now either. Cholula Hot Sauce is another new favourite that the wife’s mother introduced me to.

My goal is to one day try a few of the world’s spiciest peppers on the list, and (hopefully) not react like these two in the video. But who am I kidding, we all know I will…