On Sat, 13 Feb 2021 02:02:18 -0000 (UTC), Mike Duffy
> wrote:

>On Fri, 12 Feb 2021 15:42:04 -0800, John Kuthe wrote:
>
>> I ate a whole freshly pickled Habanero once, and it was not so much the
>> firey burning of my mouth, lips and tongue as it was the stabbing pain
>> in my gut!
>
>That's nothing. Try one freshly picked instead of freshly pickled.

With pickled peppers it's more the vinegar that cleans the walls of
the stomach that allows the capsicum to irritate more... the vinegar
also triggers the production of more HCL stomach acid... the same
occurs from eating citrus. If going to eat hot peppers or acetic
foods it's best to first coat the stomach lining by drinking milk or
eating ice cream, eating some plain bread or soda crackers will also
absorb irritants, so will burnt toast. When I was younger I was able
to pig out on cherry peppers, with age the stomach walls weaken and
become more sensitive, I no longer eat cherry peppers, not worth the
discomfort.