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Article: Neither hot sauce nor soap moves me to outrage
- Article from:
- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- October 26, 2004
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Before I write this column, journalistic ethics require that I
make two disclosures of personal experience:
My first-grade teacher washed my mouth out with soap once. She
took me into the bathroom, made me chew on a bar of Ivory or
something, then brought me back out into the hall, where the rest of
the class was waiting, and made me apologize. I had no idea why what
I said was wrong, but I apologized because in 1953, when a Catholic
nun told you to do something, you did it.
I like hot sauce. I use it liberally, even on meat loaf, and I
have tried some of the hottest hot sauces made, including those made
with habenero and scotch bonnet peppers, which according to the
Scoville Scale (Google ...