Inmate Hot Sauce

"A group of Tampa inmates is offering a taste of what it's like jail — no locks, bars or handcuffs required. But you'd better have an tough stomach to use more than a dash of their "Jailhouse Fire Hot Sauce." Minimum-security Hillsborough County Jail inmates offer it in "Original," "Smoke" and "No Escape" varieties, all made from their jail-grown peppers. They came up with the recipe and started selling it in 2005. Since then, horticulture instructor Allen Boatman estimates they've made $10,000 on the sauce. Each bottle is $7. The income is used to keep up the greenhouse and buy basic supplies (FoxNews)."

I love hot sauce, so I'd try this, but they really better have a whole bunch of people testing this before it is open to the public. I mean, what did these guys go to jail for? Murder, because if that is what it is, then this just seems reckless. Still, hook me up with a No Escape hot sauce and get out of my way...

Aspiring Chef Dies After Eating Red-Hot Chili Sauce For A Dare

"An aspiring chef died after eating a super-hot chili sauce as part of an endurance competition with a friend. Andrew Lee, 33, challenged his girlfriend’s brother to a contest to see who could eat the spiciest sauce that he could create. The fork-lift truck driver, who wanted to cook for a living, prepared a tomato sauce made with red chillies grown on his father’s allotment. After eating it, however, he suffered intense discomfort and itching. The following morning he was found dead, possibly after suffering a heart attack (FoxNews)."

DP and I have had very similar competitions, and I read this story and looking back I am really glad neither of us are dead. We had a hot sauce in college that you could put a drop of it into a burger, cook it, and it will still make you feel like you were going to die. That stuff sucked, one time this kid, who we knew, got it in his eye. That kid is in the army now, but I'll tell you, he cried like a little girl, and I don't blame him. Dieing from hot sauce has to be one of the worst ways to go. Poor guy...

-BMack