Word to the wise

[unixronin]

This may come as an unexpected revelation, but when you're picking through and de-seeding a bunch of dried chile peppers, and you manage to drive a sharp shard of hardened dried chile up under your nail and into the nail bed, IT REALLY @&$#(*&$($#$%@$ HURTS, and continues to do so well after you dig the *@#&$*&%*&#$%% shard out.

Capsaicin .... the gift that just keeps right on giving.

Comments

[lisa-marli.livejournal.com]

All the more reason for me to avoid hot peppers of any kind. I do all the cooking in the house.
Capsaicin is nasty stuff.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I think it's great stuff. Sucks to get it in tender bits or an open wound though.