Sunday I was grilling and decided to have a jalapeno while watching the grill. After eating a few slices I decided to remove the rest of the seeds because my mouth was burning enough. I slit it and scraped the seeds out but missed one. I went to scrape it off and accidentally poked the inside of the pepper. It got me right in the eye! I know you are supposed to wear eye protection when cutting hot peppers, but didn't. It felt like somebody put out a cigarette in my eye. The only smart thing I did was wash my hands before rinsing my eye. My wife should have had the video camera out so we could put it online for the enjoyment of othrs.
2006-09-18 21:15:03 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
Thanks all. I'm better now. Just one little poke with the knife tip and I'm a celebrity or something. It seems that everybody I told my tale to has a similar one. Peppers sure are good, but they can be nasty too.
2006-09-19 13:35:05 · update #1
I can beat that. A bit of advice........NEVER go down on you wife after eating jalapenos!
2006-09-18 21:24:28 · answer #1 · answered by yellowcab208 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I eat most jalapenos like candy. I have done the same thing but with a Thai Chili pepper. I had to let the water hose run on my face for an hour and still hurt 24 hours later. Those peppers are in the "Nasty" section for hot
2006-09-19 04:26:47 · answer #2 · answered by myothernewname 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh my gosh!! So much pain!! I am so sorry. If it's any consolation, earlier tonight I took two caffeine pills (400 mg) although the recommended dosage is only one pill. I am paying for it so bad right now. Not only is my heart racing (has been for the last 3 hours) but my stomach is in so much pain. I called the poison control hotline and they said that I had overdosed, and that there was nothing I could really do about it except let it pass. I am very regretful and would like to forewarn anyone from taking caffeine pills at all. Even one would have messed me up. I just wish I would have known this 4 hours ago...
2006-09-19 04:23:02 · answer #3 · answered by Amy J 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've done a few bad ones but, yeah, that beats me. I can't imagine how it must've felt! Man, I hope your eye is better, but, if you slit it and were scraping the last seed... how can it squirt if it was already slit? That's a strange one.
The best one I saw was someone I know who has been told repeatedly by his wife NOT to drink direcly from the bottle when he goes into the refrigerator and someone made Kool Aid but left the plastic container unscrewed... it was his daughter's birthday and he was wearing a white shirt and tie... and he spilled it all over himself, his shirt and new pants and he was fit to be tied! Talk about a video for recording for putting online or sending to TV shows!!! His older sister yelled at HIM for being the pig that still drank from the bottles while opening the refrigerator (he made such a mess!!!) and the idiot still probably drinks from the bottles when he opens refrigerators to this day.
HOLD IT, it gets better. He's always lying (I once told him that he can't tell the truth without lying). One summer, his wife went to visit her mother in another state. Reluctantly, she left him the keys to her car (his was stolen from in front of his home) so he could park the car on the correct side for alternate parking rules; she repeatedly told him to use the club and the alarm no matter what and no matter where he parked it. One day, instead of walking to the supermarket a block away, he takes the car. Instead of going into the parking lot, he double-parks outside, in front of the supermarket. He runs in and gets a container of milk and a few juices, pays for his purchases and when he comes outside, the car is gone! (I've told him repeatedly, as did our former employer and his wife, to use set the alarm and use the club) The car was stolen. OK, it happens. It happened to my baby-sitter's husband some years ago and he was an FBI agent, and he had an alarm, a cut-off switch and some other device, and still they stole it in a matter of 5 minutes! But, anyway, when this idiot's wife's car was found a few months later, totally trashed by kids who stole it to joy ride, the police officer told him, "You didn't use the club; we found it intact, under the driver's seat!" How's that for stupid? Make you feel better?
Thanks for sharing and best wishes (I hope your eye is better, too).
2006-09-19 05:06:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ouch! My sympathies. Hubby is a bigger pepper fiend than I, and has often forgotten to THOROUGHLY wash hands after handling.....the consequences have been the same as numerous others here. However, he was told by a Hispanic friend that if you get the capsacin in your eyes, to wipe your eyes with someones hair! Supposedly, the hair absorbs the oils! We don't know if it is true, since he has never tried it, but he very well may one day! Hope you are better now.
2006-09-19 09:48:40 · answer #5 · answered by MTGurl 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I can't eat jalapenos without my digestive system paying the price later. All things figured, I think it's good that I can't, too. I'd probably have bloodshot eyes that a vampire would envy because I do things like what you're talking about all the time!
I hope your eye gets better soon. . .and from now on, please watch out for those kamikaze pepper seeds!
2006-09-19 04:23:17 · answer #6 · answered by Wolfeblayde 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well.
You may be estupido, but you got good taste.
Next time you might want to remove the seeds before you put the jalapeno pepper in your mouth. By the way, have you tried poppers? They are breaded, fried, cheese-filled jalapenos, and I consider them to be the nectar of the Gods.
2006-09-19 04:25:45 · answer #7 · answered by Warren D 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, you are not stupid, and I bet you never make that mistake again! Next time you get a pepper burn, soak the area with a cloth dipped in milk, or rub some mayo on it. It seems to help the burning sensation. Of course, that doesn't help much for your eye!
2006-09-19 04:44:40 · answer #8 · answered by chameleon 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
For the life of me I can't remember, but I was handling some kind of chemical compound and forgot to wash my hands. To make a long story short, I went to pee and two days later my you know what started peeling real bad, I'm thinking what is this ? Do I need to go to the doctor ?
Then I remembered and felt like such a fool. True story.
2006-09-19 04:34:56 · answer #9 · answered by no nickname 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I rubbed "Icy-Hot" on my Husband's back, and we got really interested in something on the TV. Later when I made a fast Bathroom run between commercials I was horribly reminded of the rub-down i had given him earlier!!
I'll never touch the stuff again!!
lol
2006-09-19 04:28:38 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well - I heard a story about a guy how dived eye's open into the Dead Sea - so I have to say you are a close second though.
2006-09-19 04:26:06 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋