Grrl Power #29 – Spice Grrl
I’m sure no one is surprised that Sydney isn’t traumatized by how hot the Asian “5” is. Like Lister, she’s apparently murdered all of her tastebuds over the years and needs to load up else complain about how flavorless something is.
I have to say I’m fairly pleased with the art in this one – full backgrounds and all. Of course it took me like 12 hours to draw. That watercolor mural in the background alone took about 2 hours by itself. I googled “Chinese Watercolor” and pulled a few samples for reference, then sat there experimenting with a few techniques while I watched NOVA on youtube. Working on a full comic like this makes me really appreciate even the most meager attempts at art, at least when the artist is doing backgrounds and getting perspective correct. Just about any comic book has a tremendous amount of man hours in it. You can’t really appreciate it until you plant yourself down and do it yourself.
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strapon what strapon oohhh there it is didnt see it till someone made a fuss about it i was too busy staring at something else
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She must pull her hair back so she doesn’t get any food in it. ‘Cause it might stain it or set it on fire.
I’m amazed I’m the only “addicted to hot sauce” replying so far.
My girlfriend and I love hot pepper; moreover, we like to cook, so we can decide how hot we want our dishes. We don’t use a lot of sauces (our parents grow hot pepper in the garden), but, for reference, we can surely go as far as the lovely https://www.originaljuan.com/pain-is-good/batch-37-garlic-style-hot-sauce (slightly hotter than Pain 95%, In our opinion). After that sauce, there are our uncharted territories. Sydney, who is waaaay ahead of us, could draw a map to lead the way.
This said, I wonder why people who don’t use hot sauces or hot pepper claims that “we” who love spicy foods
a) lose the sense of taste and/or
b) hot dishes/sauces are only pain and no taste
I can assure you that my tastebuds feel ok, and even better since I began to use the pepper from my garden, hotter than those I can find at the supermarket. Even if I eat hot food at least three times a week, I can still enjoy other tastes like everyone else.
Regarding the taste, I know that there are a lot of people who are in great pain when eating a dish that I don’t consider and I have never considered hot, and I respect that and try not to inflict this pain when cooking for others, but I’d like people to try and understand that their perception is not my perception (as mine is not theirs). When I taste a good sauce (as weslar wrote: if the ingredients are not chemical, the result is incomparably better) or a hot dish, I can still feel the taste of other ingredients, and, for instance, I love the flavour of the Garlic Style sauce linked above. The hotness is a fundamental feature, but not the only one we feel. And remember that what I’m writing comes from experience, not from speculation.
But now, I want to thank the author of this wonderful comic, which I find beautiful in many ways (the hinted storyline, the marvelous drawings, the crazy humour, for instance). As others readers, I’ve become a regular as long as I saw the first strips, and I’m liking it more and more. I’d love two or three times a week updates too, but I prefer a once in a week update schedule for an exceptional webcomic than having more strips but not so wonderful as yours. Thanks for all the effort and the passion you put into this project.
I like to use peppers for flavor, then get a more flavorless extract for extra heat. Love the 1mil+ stuff out there. I keep wanting to try The Source (roughly 7mil) But I worry what it will do to my system. Plus the people in my house think that standard tobassco is hot…so it would probably kill them if I cooked with it.
Had ghost pepper was not impresses at all lot hype for regular Red Hanaro there maybe some that could be hotter but the souces and pepper wear a disappointment,YES I tried more than one sauce of source of course as climate can make pepper hotter or milder depending on Rainfall. Devil Tongue wear hotter and Guinness book records is full crap for one thing they blend the whole pepper including seeds when heat is not in the seeds but on them and are discarded in south American cooking not to mention water content. So No Ghost Pepper are not that hot. the low amount of seeds compared to other hotter Peppers allow the Ghost Pepper to look hotter on paper as the seeds pulp are not removed in testing as is would be in making a souse or cooking,Seed pulp is not really hot, it the stuff on the the seed that has the heat if you see what mean,Tepin Peppers have better flavor than Devil Tongue are hotter than Tepin but the flavor of the heritage Tepin beats it. But Ghost Pepper PLEASE THERE A JOKE! I had a Chocolate colored looking Hanaro, I thought is was just a Jamaican Hot Chocolate Habenero, I was wrong nearly, Passed out the pain was ungodly NO IDEA WHAT THE HECK IT WAS,The guy who grew them said he got the plants from a Indian guy at farmers market.
So Yes there are Pepper far hotter than the Ghost Pepper (it’s a silly Joke, I could eat a dozen, I know because I did.) But out the there a Unknown Chocolate colored piece of Evil that Defeated me.Left me crumpled holding my stomach crying like a baby. I know my peppers and THAT WAS SO NOT A Jamaican Hot Chocolate.
Say would you mind sending me up one of those peppers next time you get your hands on them? pleeeeaaaaaaase? in other news I do like Satans blood but it needs a little more flavour.
in other News I think my roomie and I would also try the bottom three hot sauces on the page… Sounds interesting to me. Also who else doesn’t tend to feel the hot sauces coming out the bottom end?
I could go for a few dozen of whatever they are too.
Not sure how some peppers get the way they are. At the Mexican restaurant around the corner, every order gets a roasted jalapeno with it. My wife won’t eat them, so I do. Mine was about like you’d expect a jalapeno to be, but hers? I do NOT know what happened, but I swear an explosive device must have been included. I mean, it was just a jalapeno, and it was hotter than habaneros I’ve had! I went through a quart of horchata to get things under control enough to get a box to bring the rest of my dinner home in, because I was done for the night.
A scientist in Scotland crossbred the Bhut Jolokia (Ghost Pepper) with some other crazy hot ones to make the Bhut Viper 1.3million Scovilles. Guinness hasn’t counted the viper as the world’s hottest pepper yet because it can’t procreate naturally, it’s seeds don’t work hehe.
Hmmm, gee, I wonder why XD too hot to get anything going on, just shrivels up into dust, perhaps? lol
It’s been refined to the T Butch Trinidad Scorpion, and Guinness does now include it.
I use 12 Ghosts at a time, with habaneros and chipotles to make my own hot sauce. I let others try it at a two to four drop rate, on Fritos scoops, and they have said it has “good heat” I fill the scoop to the brim, and STILL want it hotter.
For record I had a bad Bad infection that damage my sinuses as a Kid so I really need the spice to enjoy my food or even really Taste it, so the above really happened.Not to mention I was British and enjoyed spicy food even before that.
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Yeah this will eventually go to page 2 when you hit 50 top level comments, but still it’s a lot for one page. I’ll play around with the settings and see if I can make it more manageable.
Does that gesture reminds you of anything?
*giggle*
She needs some of Ace’s (of Too Much Information fame) sauce… Otherwise described by his doctor as “”That industrial solvent you call hot sauce”
Hmm, I’ll have to check that comic out.
He seriously likes that stuff waaaay too much.
He even puts it on freakin’ PANCAKES
We really need to see an Ultimate Eat-off between those two, for that matter, would love to see both entire ‘entourages’ in the same room as well (and that includes TMI’s Orions: CeePeePee, Xenon and Sky)
For that matter, Jaz and Peggy should get together and talk war-stories (although, can’t remember if Jaz was actually in the army, or just a civilian contractor when she lost her leg in Iraq)
Came back to this after a loooooong long while and just noticed, the mural is not Chinese watercolor per se. The right-most third of it is Hokusai’s “The Great Wave Off Kanagawa” – which is famously Japanese and the rest is literati ink painting (like sumi-e, since I can’t recall its Japanese name, curse my memory!)
I love the fly that erupts into flames when it crosses the plate.
Okay, true story. My dad was living in New Zealand when he met this Indian guy, and went over to his house for dinner once. This was back in the sixties and around there you had to literally fan the flies off of your plate while you ate in just about every home. Well this Indian fellow offer my dad and his friend some “curried fruit.” My dad watched as flies came down to the food and then about an inch away they would shoot back up and run away. The flies would literally not land on it.
I like the ring of fire one too, but I don’t have a story to go with that one.
My mom tells me we used to live across the street from an Indian couple that invited them over for dinner once. They made chicken, but before they served it to them, they literally ran it under the water and washed all the spices off, and it was still almost too hot to eat, and my Dad isn’t a lightweight, at least he wasn’t at the time. I don’t get it myself (even though I’m trying to acclimate myself to hotter food) but to each their own I guess.
when I actually first saw that, I thought it was like a little Spice Demon Thing bouncing off her stomach, making it funnier to me to see she was impervious to its dire powers. XD lmao….whoops, guess not ^^;
Volcano Blood – LOL
Just noticed, that succubus looks a lot like one of harem’s copies.
I LOVE THE FLY CATCHING FIRE AT A DISTANCE. I know my limits and that so grossly exceeds it I would be in the hospitol. She must eat ghost peppers(Scoville rating exceeding 1,000,000. Habenaros are 300,000-500,000)
love the fly
There’s a deli near where I live that sells all sorts of exotic foodstuffs and spices. I swear I’ve seen “Masochism” on their shelves. (But it was a male devil, depicted from the abs upwards… )
I doubt there’s anything here in reality depicting a female devil WEARING A STRAP-ON PENIS!
Trinidad Moruga Scorpion–average scoville rating: 2,000,000.
ILSHTNMSH! — I laughed so hard that now my sides hurt. That’s the truth.
Just a little FYI, but capsaicin only affects mammals. That’s why even habenero peppers will get moldy and rotten so fast, it doesn’t act as a natural preservative and protect it from decomposition vectors at all, it only is a natural deterrent from mammals. So that fly shouldn’t care.
It’s just that spicy my friend.
calling real world physics in an comic book? for shame (lol)
I rememeber seeing a travel channel special on spice foods this one resturante had a dish so spicy the staff had to where hazmat suit
the Ring of Fire hot sauce is real, I saw it in a spice/chili store. they also had a sauce called Slap My Ass And Call Me Sally
Like my previous comment… I reiterate that I don’t have natural filtering between my senses and my brain.
I wouldn’t dare put anything too spicy in my mouth. I generally test things on my hand first to be sure. If I can “taste” it through the skin of my hand, it is WAY too spicy to go in my mouth.
Mostly the only things I eat are Cornish Pasties with Mild Cheddar melted on top… though not too hot. What most people consider an acceptable temperature for food would leave burns on my tongue for over a week.
… That said, I’m fine with acidic stuff. Used to drink lemon juice as a regular beverage.
Jay-zuhs!! Forget how she doesn’t burn her mouth and boil her eyes, or even how she doesn’t vomit or get esophageal ulcers… I wanna know how she poops. No, really, how does she poop without burning out her anus?! This is a serious question that requires careful consideration. I suppose she may keep a jar of Vaseline on hand, but holy cow! She must have the digestive system of iron!
I’ve only just started reading, and I haven’t been introduced to any other character so far, but I would think even Ms. Maxima would cry if she so much as looked at that plate!!
Lol . i have a feeling Sydney eats But Jolokia (Ghost Peppers) like candy . THey are illegal in the states because they have 1000 Scoville. when pepper spray has only 50
Boot Jolokia * Sorry i typo’d the name
This resonates because the cooking staff would come out to watch me eat when I used to travel a lot and asked the waitress to bring me something “extremely hot as far as you’re concerned!” I finally received my comeuppance when I had to eat some seitan (which is horribly bland!) I grabbed some sauce off the lazy susan and put it on like ketchup. after about 10 bites, I had to give up. Can’t remember the brand name, but the first ingredient was habanero pepper extract! Somebody apparently thought it was a good idea to create something that was almost 100% capsaicin! Guess I had to wimp out on that one! This last happened at a friend’s house. (Incidentally, the friend had never tried to eat any of the one that finally beat me. He was too scared to try it!)
You can actually buy pure capsaicin crystals, you just have to sign the waiver indemnifying the supplier against your death or injury. I’m not kidding.
Having little artistic talent and no artistic inclination, I just find it to be like Florence Ambrose’s Law of Magic (any tech, no matter how primitive, is indistinguishable from magic to those who don’t understand it). Any decent art is like magic to me, and I appreciate the world containing people who work the kind of magic that I can’t.
Whenever you actually put up a store (ARCHON shirts!), you need to make the bottle labels available.
That fly STILL cracks me up!
SO I’m rereading this comic and just have to comment due to new experiences. My friend bought a hot scauce that came with that type of warning label twice. One of the times the thing broke open while still full and he insits it was worse than tear gas.
Cool drink with Tabasco sauce You say? Funny…
When I was in collage one night out in party we developed a crazy drink: Tabasco sauce mixed with Red Bull… The energy from that stuff was insane! At one point we felt like jumping up into second story window was nothing impossible.
I love this page on SO many levels! I am not going to list them all as I don’t want to give you a wall of text, LOL. Just saying, great page!
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The strapon made perfect sense to me, and conveyed the potential dangers quite well. Not sure what the bitching’s about.
All right, call out to Pain 100% from Spicin (used to be Original Juan’s) – the sauce that made Shaq cry on the YT show, First We Feast, after dissing Kansas City, saying we didn’t know hot sauce.