Cabe Merah

The other day I was hanging out with some of my Balinese friends after a basketball game and one of them brought out a bag of cabe merah (extremely hot chill peppers). For the record I've gotten pretty used to spicy foods here and my stomach can take a lot but these peppers were on a new level. I ate one and immediately started sweating. Of course they thought this was hilarious and started making fun of me. Somehow the situation quickly escalated and it became a contest to see who could eat the most. (I came in third with 15). That night my stomach was a little twisted up but after that I figured the worst was over. Wrong again. The next night after my digestive track had done its thing and the peppers were making their exit I immediately knew something was horribly wrong. It felt(burned) something like a volcano erupting or maybe more like a fire breathing dragon coming out of the other end. It was so bad that it left me searching frantically for a block of ice to sit on. Needless to say, I had more peppers the next day.