It pains me to do this in this thread but:
Anyone want to talk about chicken wings?
20 years ago there was a pub I frequented about 5 nights a week - Bear Brew pub in Orono, ME - and we ordered wings most nights. One night the cook came out with a special hot recipe he was working on, put them on the table and said "If you can eat them, they are free." They were a lot hotter than the normal ones, but still manageable - so we finished them and let him know they were really good. This set up a challenge where for the next few weeks he doctored the recipe and offered the challenge a few times. Towards the end, we would be sweating on the top of our head on the first bite - but we couldn't show it. They also had good flavor - it wasn't just an inferno.
It became an off-menu standard. You had to be in the know and ask for "Nate's Wings"
His recipe started with boiling down 50 habenaros. He put molasses in there so the heat would stick in your mouth. He put some alcohol in it with the idea that it would open the pores in your mouth (but it probably all evaporated in cooking). Shit was hot. Newbies usually couldn't eat one.
Spoiled me for wings elsewhere. So hot and delicious.