Indian Simulator: NOT for those with weak stomachs!

This is terrible!  But having endured more than two hours of tech support based in India during the past few days, I'm feeling ornery enough to share this anyway.

If you've ever wondered what it is like to live in India, those good people have produced Indian Simulator.  We have gobs of simulators about American life already - flight simulators, goat simulators, and of course the Grand Theft Auto games.  But what is it like to make one's home on the subcontinent?  Indian Simulator is the game for you then!

Now that's ONE pre-order I for one will be avoiding like a disease-ridden brahma bull!

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Indian chili pepper is world's hottest

The bhut jolokia - or "ghost pepper" because one bite of this could send you to an early grave - of northeastern India is now officially the world's hottest chili pepper

A chile's spiciness can be scientifically measured by calculating its content of capsaicin, the chemical that gives a pepper its bite, and counting its Scoville units.

And how hot is the bhut jolokia?

As a way of comparison: Classic Tabasco sauce ranges from 2,500 to 5,000 Scoville units. Your basic jalapeño pepper measures anywhere from 2,500 to 8,000. The previous record holder, the Red Savina habanero, was tested at up to 580,000 Scovilles.

The bhut jolokia crushed those contenders, testing at 1,001,304 Scoville units.

Over a million Scoville units?! Geeeeeez...

For a month now I've been trying Dave's Ultimate Insanity sauce on quite a few things, including mixing it with chili and salsa. It's so powerful that the most I've used at any one time is 3 drops of the stuff: any more than that and it's unbearably hot. Well, Dave's Ultimate Insanity has been measured to be, at most, about 250,000 Scoville units. I can't begin to imagine what a million would feel like. But I must admit, I am terribly curious as to how bhut jolokia tastes. Maybe someday I'll get to try it.

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