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Your salsa knocked my taste buds out of this galaxy. It was so good i couldn't stop eating it. But that might not have been a good thing because by the time i was done, i had to suck on a piece of ice to cool my tongue.

Now i'm dreading how it'll come out the other end lol

Thanks for sharing.... jerk

lol... i actually had the jar with me at your place during the draft. Had i remembered, i would've bought it out, but i didn't... too bad so sad

You're welcome. Thank you for May 6, 2012.

Btw, it hurts on the way out, but it's over fairly quickly. Just don't go running.

thank God for May 6, i didn't do a thing

I find myself craving more salsa now lols

actually, sucking on a piece of ice makes the burn worse. you should eat plain yogurt or drink a glass of milk before you start.

ice only makes physical burns (ie fire burns) worse... for spice it's ok... but yea, i know dairy products like yogurt or milk are better for spicy foods but i think i'm developing a mild case of lactose intolerance so i've been staying away from straight milk recently. and we ran outta yougurt.

why does ice make physical burns worse? i know you don't put ice directly on the skin, you need cloth between, but isn't ice recommended for all burns?
but as for spice, it's not the ice that's bad per se, but the water that the ice turns into. from what i was taught, the water doesn't "cool" off the affects of the spice but rather it picks up the spice and actually spreads it around, making the pain worse.

i was taught from a burn clinic that did a presentation at my elementary school that ice makes physical burns worse because your skin is already in a state of shock. If you shock it with temperatures on the other extreme, it kinda throws it for a loop and in cases where the burns are severe (covering large portions of your body and not just a burn from a frying pan edge), can throw your body into hypothermia. and yea, if you don't wrap the ice in cloth, then you can even give your messed up skin frostbite.

and if you look it up, no, ice isn't recommended for all burns.. people actually highly recommended against putting ice on burns. Some people say depending on how bad a physical burn is, you should wrap a cool damp cloth around the burn or run the burn under cool (not cold) water. you want to slowly bring the skin back to it's normal temperature state instead of shocking it back right away with extreme cold.

as for spice, the ice kinda numbs my tongue/mouth so it worked lol

Oh, sorry haha.. I didn't read your later post.

i don't think the water "spreads" it around much either, for the same reason it doesn't help. water and oil don't mix.

Crackers.