What have I created...?

So I haven't really made American food since I got here...when I do cook, I make Japanese dishes cause it's easier to find the ingredients. Anyway, today I decided I was going to make buffalo wings. I had to fry instead of bake the chicken because we have a piddly-small oven that shouldn't even be called an oven cause there's no way in Hades you could cook anything in that...anyway. That went well. Making the sauce went well also (hey, it was just hot sauce and margarine. Strangely, spreadable margarine is cheaper than stick margarine here...) It's just that there's only two kinds of hot sauce in Besia: Tabasco (Tabasco is even served in Western-style restaurants) and Louisiana habanero hot sauce. I figured Tabasco would probably be a bad idea, so I got the Louisiana. I eat the regular kind all the time, and I knew habanero would be spicier than that, but I didn't realize how spicy. I mean, I've been putting small amounts in my curry since I got here, so I didn't think it'd be a problem.

So I finished, and it looked all pretty and smelled good...

...And then I took a bite out of one.

Let me explain. I don't exactly eat jalapeno peppers like pickles, but I think I have a pretty high tolerance for spicy food. I thought two things at once: "Wow, this tastes really good" and "Aaaah! My mouth's being ripped off my face!!" Five minutes later, my mouth was still burning. Apple juice was the only thing that could ease the pain. I just had to sit still at my little table for a while to recover, taking deep breaths like I had been through some kind of battle. "Those are the devil's wings..." I thought.

"....But you know, that was pretty good. I want another one."

...Like I said, they were really good, after all.