I think a trip report is pretty much mandatory here. Easier or harder than you thought? How'd you prepare? How'd you feel 15 minutes after the encounter? Would you do it again? All that sort of stuff.
Good call.
First of all, I was worried about being slowed down by some cut or blister I have on the back of my tongue, so I put some orajel on it about 20 minutes before we started. Seemed to help a lot, I didn't even notice it. As for any other preparation, it was all mental. I knew it would suck. I'd just have to stay focused on the task at hand, the physical act of stripping the meat from the bones, chewing/swallowing, and moving onto the next. Try to eat so fast that I could beat the burning sensation that each eaten wing added to the previous one.
Once the challenge started, it went a lot differently than I expected for a couple of reasons. For starters, the spice didn't bother me nearly as much as I thought it would. I guess because I wasn't breathing in and out of my mouth I wasn't "stoking the flame." Secondly... I don't know how the fuck the record is 37 seconds. What slowed me down the most was the act of chewing the meat enough to swallow before I could move into the next one. I couldn't eat 12 wings in 37 seconds whether they're spicy or not. The last thing that really annoyed me, and my friends took note of this without me saying anything, is that my last two or three wings were pulled off the bone and just sitting at the bottom of my tray. They said it looked like I had a tray of pulled chicken under 8 wings or so. I had to scoop it all up with three fingers and drag them across the tray to pick up every last little bit. That, I believe, is the reason it took me 5 minutes to finish the challenge.
Once I was done... hooooly sheeeit, that's when it really hit. I had a milk and a beer ready with an ice cream on order. I finished both drinks and my tongue was still on fire. About five minutes later the ice cream showed up, and by the time I wolfed that down, my tongue was nearly back to normal. In fact, I'd say the ice cream helped the most out of everything.
As for this morning, yeah, I think I shit a few razor blades. My stomach feels fine after the initial... release. I have a pretty strong stomach.
Edit: What REALLY pissed me off is the fact that they don't put your picture on a "Wall of Fame" anymore (we were told this after completing the challenge). That's mostly why I did it. I even e-mailed corporate to complain about that last night. I'm not sure if it's all locations that stopped, or just this one. I'm hoping it was just this one so corporate can step in and say "Hey, why'd you stop? You need to put pictures up."
And if they told me I'd have to do the challenge again to have my picture up? Yeah. I'd do it again. It really was a lot easier than I thought. The worst part was the five minutes that followed the eating of the final wing.
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