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From: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson)
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Subject: Tongue on a Hot Tin Roof -- how to kill the flames
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Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 19:58:36 EDT
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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)
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