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From: turner@saber.UUCP (D'arc Angel)
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Subject: Re: Tongue on a Hot Tin Roof -- how to kill the flames
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Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 08:44:20 EST
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> 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

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its the same reason some people drink their coffee with cream, the butterfat
in the REAL milk/cream coats the tongue and protects it from the acid in
coffee,jalapenos etc.
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