Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site burl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!rcj From: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson) Newsgroups: net.cooks Subject: Tongue on a Hot Tin Roof -- how to kill the flames Message-ID: <906@burl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 19:58:36 EDT Article-I.D.: burl.906 Posted: Fri Oct 25 19:58:36 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 04:56:54 EDT References: <163@msunix.UUCP> <1581@uwmacc.UUCP> <12570@rochester.UUCP> Reply-To: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson) Distribution: na Organization: AT&T Technologies, Burlington NC Lines: 24 Summary: Do NOT drink water to douse the flames in your mouth from that jalapeno you just munched -- drink milk (REAL milk, not low-fat). I know this works VERY well. I don't know the reason, however, but a friend seems to think that it is because the pepper stuff that's so nasty is an oily substance and is therefore very easily miscible in milk, while it just floats on water and continues to burn. Two other hints [I may have posted before] to fully utilize this article: To get garlic off your hands, wash them with salt just as if the salt was a powdered soap. To keep cookies fresh, sacrifice a loaf of fresh bread and store the cookies in a plastic bag with it. In the morning, the cookies will be moist and the bread will be a blunt, hard, deadly weapon. Take care, -- The MAD Programmer -- 919-228-3313 (Cornet 291) alias: Curtis Jackson ...![ ihnp4 ulysses cbosgd mgnetp ]!burl!rcj ...![ ihnp4 cbosgd akgua masscomp ]!clyde!rcj