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I really enjoyed reading that! I am still having to wipe my eyes from laughing so much. It brings back the memories of the chili cook-offs that I used to go to when I still lived in Texas. Certain parts of this "report" do remind me of how some of the cook-offs actually went. It was at some of them, that I learned, that there are actually physical limits of just how much HOT CHILI, that some people from locations from outside of Texas. I saw this several times at the different Texas cook-offs. Some of the poor judges, thought that this was going to be "no big deal" they usually try to have a few, Native Texan Born Ringer's as some of the judges. Then they hit the crowd, with a list of people that wanted to be a guest Judge, that had been made up from the guest judge registration forms. I really think they target areas of the country, that are not really known for very spicy or HOT food. They try to find ones that look like they would maybe max-out at just a very MILD CHILI. Then the chili was sampled, one entrants chili, then another's was tested. The judges were actually going from the mildest to the engine cleaner, known as, Dave's Instant Insanity Habanero Chili. EMT's were on hand and were needed for to of the "foreigner judges" one judge had to have his lips, tongue and and the entire area inside their mouth sprayed with a liquid Lidocaine spray, and another had to have the Lidocaine spray and a couple of the Eppi-Stiks, followed by a breathing treatment, because the had started going into Anaphylactic Shock! After the medical intervention and the minor treatment received, everyone was fine.