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[[File:BeavisButtheadFire.jpg|link=Beavis and Butthead|thumb|400px|[[Catch Phrase|FIRE! FIRE! FIRE!]]]]

 

 

Excessively spicy food invariably results in a (usually metaphorical) [[Breath Weapon|blast of flame from the mouth]] of the diner, often after he or she has quickly turned red from feet to top of head (in the manner of a rising thermometer, sometimes with a distinctive rising "boooOOOP!" or whistling kettle sound effect).

 

Not to be confused with the [[Unsatisfiable Customer]], for whom the fire breathing is verbal, rather than metaphorical or literal.

 

== [[Advertising]] ==

* A [http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=J31hjRbC3SA Dairy Queen Flamethrower] commercial uses this, sort of a live-action [[Memetic Mutation|Spicy burger is spicy]]. [http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=zuk4uHzk25M Another with three unfortunate customers.]

** This has happened a few other times as well: In one episode, Ash ate a Tamato berry (a ''spicy'' berry that looks like a tomato with spikes on it) and breathed fire. He was later shown with lips swollen from that. It's also happened to Team Rocket a few times.

* In ''[[Kirby: Right Back at Ya!]]'', an entire episode had an [[Escalating War]] between two restaurants in making spicier and spicier foods. Everybody ended up doing this, except Kirby. Finally food spicy enough to affect him was found, just in time, as the flame spewing Kirby did allowed him to beat the [[Monster of the Week]].

* The episode in ''[[Sailor Moon]] R'', the one with the upgrade to the locket, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlSVpj28oR0 has the Rei Eats Wasabi scene that was cut from the dub.] (starts at 4:32)

* In one episode of ''[[Super GALS!]]'', Ran accidentally becomes a meek girly-girl. Her rival, Mami Honda, tries to crack Ran's unflappable smile by spiking a couple of fast food burgers with Tabasco sauce and hot mustard, which Ran eats without even breaking a sweat. Mami tries a burger herself and suffers from this effect, even after taking a drink. However, Ran does notice a burning in her mouth (though no fire) after turning back to normal.

* The ''[[Naruto]]'' fillers have a particularly infamous arc named for the Curry of Life. Even though it is the titular character who truly invokes the trope, the only part that makes it truly worth watching is [[The Comically Serious|Neji's]] reaction to tasting it. [[Masochist's Meal|On]] ''both'' [[Ship Tease|occasions]].

** Completely averted by Rock Lee, who has a fondness for the stuff... He and Neji at a contest would play out akin to [[The Lord of the Rings (film)|Legolas and Gimli drinking]].

 

 

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* Lampshaded in a ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' sketch with Christian Slater. He and Victoria Jackson go to a restaurant to try the Buffalo wings, available in mild, medium, hot, or "super fire hot'. Slater says he wants to try the super fire hot. The waiter tries to talk him out of it -- "They're very hot"—it escalates, the manager is called out to explain "They're very hot"—finally he has to sign release forms—he bites one, freeze-frame, and then the conventional effects of the trope are narrated in detail by a voice-over. The final joke is that he did all that, and they had secretly given him the medium-hot wings.

* Done in ''[[Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide]]'' to break a [[Big Eater]] of his habit of eating other peoples' food.

* In one episode of ''[[Bottom]]'', Richie invents a dish called "sprouts Mexicaine" which turns people into Fire ''Farting'' Diners.

* Played for laughs during a scene transition on ''[[Home Improvement (TV series)|Home Improvement]]''. Al had been asked to fill in as host of a cooking show, with Tim as his assistant (in a reversal of their usual roles on the ''Tool Time'' show). Tim accidentally eats some hot peppers and scrambles around the scene to try to find a way to cool his burning mouth, concluding just before the transition with Tim guzzling down milk, then [[Funny Background Event|spraying flame into the air as Al smiles for the camera.]]

* In an episode of ''[[Parks and Recreation]]'', at a dinner party at Leslie's house Ron eats a whole red pepper which impresses his date, who happens to be Tom's ex-wife. A jealous Tom tries a pepper as well, despite Ron's warning. Immediately after popping it into his mouth he has to leave the table. He spends the rest of the party in Leslie's bedroom with sucking a pillow, because his mouth feels like it's on fire.

 

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* A magic item available in ''Forged By Dragon's Fire'', an ''[[Old World of Darkness]]'' supplement, is the "ginger dragon", a small candy most often produced in rural China. They produce real fire.

 

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* ''[[Kirby]]'s Dream Land'' had a Super Spicy Curry item that let you breathe fire.

** The same item appears in ''[[Super Smash Bros.|Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'', with much the same effect.

* One of the mini-games in ''[[Rayman]]: [[Raving Rabbids]] 2'' has the titular Rabbids using this as a means to cook chicken.

* There's a craftable food in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' called Dragonbreath Chili. Eating it will cause the player to occasionally breathe fire that does minor damage to nearby enemies. During the Midsummer Fire Festival, some vendors sell a drink that causes the player to breathe fire, although unlike the chili it doesn't harm enemies.

* Doppel Nanase pulls this trope using ramen for one of her attacks in ''[[Eternal Fighter Zero]]''.

* The Spicy Curry from ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]. Brawl''. The fireballs are actually a weapon that are difficult to defend against.

* Ozymandias from ''[[Ozy and Millie]]'' [http://ozyandmillie.org/2000/07/15/ozy-and-millie-432/ deliberately invokes this trope] to impress the matriarch of his extended (draconic) family, and get out of an arranged marriage. He's adopted.

** In a more recent example, the same character [http://ozyandmillie.org/2007/02/27/ozy-and-millie-1834/ makes use of the trope again], this time as part of an attempt to let his friend to go on a field trip without a permission slip.

 

 

** Played straight earlier in the same episode, as Homer's uninsulated tongue glows neon red when it comes in contact with a Guatemalan Insanity Pepper. It evaporates anything less than an armful of liquid on contact.

** Also played straight in ''[[The Simpsons Movie]]'', when Homer is revived by the Inuit woman.

* In ''[[Garfield Specials|A Garfield Christmas Special]]'', Grandma spikes Mom Arbuckle's sausage gravy with chili powder ("Who am ''I'' to tell you how to make gravy? The Green Country gravy champion, that's who!"), and Garfield ends up spewing a gout of flame as a result. ("Perfect.")

* An early example comes in the Walt Disney cartoon ''Donald's Nephews'' (1938), when Huey, Dewey, and Louie feed [[Donald Duck]] a slice of pie that's been doctored with mustard.

* A variation is played in ''[[Saludos Amigos]]'', where Donald drinks a glass of Brazilian ''cacha?'' (saying it's an ''extremely strong'' sugarcane spirit is a very great understatement) that causes him to spout flames. José then uses Donald's flame breath to light a cigar.

* Even ''[[Beavis and Butthead]]'' got a [[Pun|taste]] of this trope by eating tacos seasoned with "Mexican Death Sauce" in the [[Missing Episode]] "Way Down Mexico Way".

* In the ''[[Sushi Pack]]'' episode "Red Hot Chili Planet," Ben had to pass along a message from Wasabi to the others, but since Wasabi [[The Unintelligible|speaks "mustard"]], Ben has trouble getting the inflection right. Ikura suggests he drink some hot sauce to get it right, and with one drop, Ben is breathing fire (and starts speaking "mustard")!

* In one episode of ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'', Elmyra accidentally feeds Dizzy Devil a can of hot chili instead of dog food. Cue the eyes watering up, breaths of flame, then running to the shower to put out the fire.

** A major problem for Cat whenever Dog uses too much hot sauce on his tacos. Because they're conjoined, the hot sauce passes from Dog's stomach to his, causing him to belch fire out of his mouth.

* Done realistically in one of the ''[[Rugrats]]''' earlier episodes, "Waiter, there's a Baby In My Soup!", where Stu has no choice but to bring Tommy with him to an important business dinner with the president of Mucklehoney industries (a toy factory). Tommy wriggles out of his baby crib under their notice, and wanders into the kitchen where he pours garlic powder, pepper, and hot sauce into a chef's soup prepared for the president. Upon sampling the concoction, the president struggles all over the floor, gasping for water while Tommy returns inside a bowl of spaghetti.

** Played straighter in the episode "Griffon the Brush-Off," when Gilda eats some lemon drops tainted with pepper. Pinkie Pie even whips out a marshmallow to roast using her breath.

** Even Pinkie Pie herself falls victim to this; she breathes fire for a moment after literally tasting a rainbow in "Sonic Rainboom". The fire even turns multiple colors. Keep in mind that Pinkie is seen eating a cupcake drenched in hot sauce in the pilot episodes.