Inferno Challenge!: Pazza Bistro, Gainesville, FL
Mike Davis was in town on wednesday and convinced me I needed to ride up with him to Gainesville, FL, to take on the Inferno Challenge at Pazza Bistro. The challenge is to eat a medium size Inferno Pizza (8 normal sized slices) in 20 minutes with no napkins, and only two cups of water. Bathroom breaks and throwing up were grounds for disqualification. I had to sign a waiver before I began that said I acknowledge the risks involved, the worst being death. As the name of the pizza implies (inferno), this thing is HOT! And by hot I don’t mean drizzle some tabasco sauce on your eggs, I mean swallowing a burning battery and then chasing it with some pure alcohol with a pinch of nitroglycerin. It contains many habeneros and “ghost chili” peppers among others. A few days earlier Mike’s friend Eddie took on the challenge and got through a whopping one bite before calling it quits. I ended up being able to eat 4 slices (half of the pizza) before my body refused to let me eat any more. While milk calmed my mouth down eventually, (provided to me after I admitted defeat) my stomach seared until I fell asleep. Thanks to Pazza Bistro to providing a food item that was finally hot enough for my senses! The links below show my effort in its entirety. Rated ‘R’ for language! (Sorry, but I felt like I was dying at the time, heh.)