Tried something new today!

Today was my buddy Bruce’s going-away lunch, and he wanted to eat at Quaker Steak & Lube.  This place is known for it’s wings, and since I’ve never really tried wings before I opted to try something new.  Not one to go small, I opted to try 3 wings from the hottest sauce in the “HOT” category and three wings from the lower of the two “INSANE” sauces.

I started with the HOT category wing.  It was hot, intense, but not too crazy… then I decided to move on to the INSANE wing.  I went with a half of a wing just to see how it went… and that was all I ate of that particular variety.  The taste of the wing was better than the first wing, but the heat started coming on stronger and stronger until it was basically just abject pain for 15 minutes or so.  The worst part about it was the nagging desire to attempt to eat more of that sauce, but I opted for caution and went back to the HOT variety.  It seemed timid in comparison… it was very interesting to me the relative difference after I tried something orders of magnitude hotter.

So I got a bumper sticker that proclaims me a Atomic Sauce Survivor and some good memories were had.  So far, no meaningful fallout from the process either… time will tell whether or not I regret things on the other side.