KISS fans and anyone that just likes wearing strange pieces of clothing should appreciate this collaboration between the long-tongued rock band and Mark Ecko’s Black Rhino line.
A tribute to Kiss, one of the most recognized American rock bands… and bassist Gene Simmons’ who constantly flaunted his impossibly long tongue.
The hoodie zips all the way up to reveal a Gene Simmons mask, and the giant red tongue design on the front should be hard to miss whether your face is covered or not. There’s also a large KISS logo across the back in case someone thinks you’re just trying to chew through a boa constrictor.
Because when it’s Blair’s 16 Million Reserve, a pharmaceutical grade vial filled with pure capsaicin crystal, even a little bit is enough to kill.
Literally.
When Blair sells it, he specifically states: “Blair’s 16 Million is not a sauce or an ingredient. This product is made available for experimental/display purposes only”.
So why all the fuss?
Because Blair’s 16 Million gets its name from its Scoville rating of 16 Million on the Scoville scale. (A measure of hotness.)
How hot is 16 Million?
Well, typical Tabasco sauces have a rating of 2,500-5,000; typical cayenne peppers have a rating of 30,000; and the famed habanero peppers have a rating of 100,000-350,000. Even US pepper spray only manages to reach a rating of 2,000,000-5,300,000.
As you can imagine, a sauce with a rating three times as high as pepper spray is going to pack quite a punch.
Wonder what it does to food?
The brave reviewers over at the Hot Sauce Blog put a single spec into a pot of tomato soup, and had to throw the entire thing away. And these guys review hot sauce for a living!
Ready to try some?
Too bad, because all 999 bottles have already been spoken for.
Don’t worry through, I’m sure some poor soul with a burned tongue and a light wallet will put one up on eBay soon enough, and then it will be time for your famous chili to kick it up a few notches.
Urban Monarch and Modern Drunkard put together two great guides about how to score free drinks when you go out. Put down the credit card, and slowly step away.
Artist Felix Beck created a non-visual graffiti project called Soundbombs, “innocuous-looking 6-inch plastic shells that broadcast short clips (lines from Shakespeare, flatulence, or anything else you record) to unwitting passersby”. He doesn’t sell them, but instead takes applications, and prospective users must tell him where they will use it and how much they’re willing to pay. Get loud.
Sodium Laurel Sulfate, and ingredient in toothpaste, blocks sweet sensors on your tongue, which explains why orange juice tastes so bad after you brush.
Stuart Haygarth created the Tide Chandelier out of man made debris that washed up along a stretch of the Kent coastline. “The sphere is an analogy for the moon which effects the tides which in turn wash up the debris”.
Why would a hot sauce need a disclaimer?
