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I participated in this hot chicken tenders eating contest, because it was hosted by Willy\u2019s, basically my favorite eatery in the entire city of Atlanta metropolitan area.\u00a0 This is the same company in which I became the self-proclaimed Burrito King™ of Atlanta when I won a promotion they had where I had to visit and make a transaction at all 28 Willy\u2019s locations within a 30-day span which I accomplished in four.<\/span><\/p>\n Well, the Willy who created my favorite burrito joint got into hot chicken, and has been slowly expanding his restaurant portfolio into the hot chicken game, opening a location of one of his new ventures not terribly far from where I am.\u00a0 And then I saw that there would be a hot chicken tender eating contest, and I thought to myself, no better way to flex on the small world of Willy\u2019s than to go and win another contest.<\/span><\/p>\n After all, being Korean gives me a natural +10 in spicy food tolerance, and what the fuck do white people know about spicy food anyway, so I figured it would be a layup to roll in, crush three hot chicken tenders in the span of six minutes and walk away with a little bit of swag.\u00a0 Honestly, the photo on their wall of winners was probably the most important prize of all, because when it comes to fat guy accolades, showing my superiority at spice tolerance is something that I wouldn\u2019t mind flexing on all the pleebs who can\u2019t handle heat.<\/span><\/p>\n Anyway, I came, went and saw, and much like I knew I could, crushed the three hot chicken tenders in six minutes and walked away a winner.\u00a0 This wasn\u2019t a contest where there was a last man standing, but basically series of waves, where 10 people take the challenge on at a time.\u00a0 Six people bounced in the first wave, and I was a part of the second wave where another five people dropped out from the heat.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t stick around for the third wave, because I had already proven my point.<\/span><\/p>\n Howlin\u2019 Willy\u2019s hot chicken was definitely among the higher tiers of spicy I\u2019ve ever had in my life, but I will maintain that it was still not the spiciest thing I\u2019d ever eaten either; that distinction goes to some nuclear pork I had in Seoul, where mythical then-gf and I had to tap and waste the food, and the retribution was fairly immediate.\u00a0 But as for Willy\u2019s, I definitely felt the heat through the challenge, but I was able to make it through without much difficulty.\u00a0 The heat was slow acting, but after it burns, it burns off quickly, and before I left the shopping center, I was already back to feeling fine.<\/span><\/p>\n That is until the remainder of the day progressed, and I started to get hit with what I\u2019m guessing was the mother of heartburn.\u00a0 I don\u2019t really know, because I really didn\u2019t know what heartburn was supposed to feel like.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t like indigestion pain, but just this really dull ache in my stomach that made me want to stop whatever it was I was doing, and just put myself into a position where I could apply pressure to my gut or be in a folded position where the pressure would alleviate.<\/span><\/p>\n Effectively, the rest of my day was ruined, because I couldn\u2019t really get comfortable, and it impacted my ability to be present with my kids and physically competent to operate at a normal level.\u00a0 I crushed a bunch of Tums hoping it would help, and I don\u2019t think it really did.\u00a0 After the kids were down, I ran to the store to get some Pepto, since the thought of something coating my insides was an appealing one, and by the time I went to bed, I probably downed a quarter of the bottle.<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019d never felt more relieved when the indigestion did hit, because it was finally giving my body the opportunity to purge the hot chicken from my body and not to get too graphic but boy did it feel as hot evacuating the body as it did burning my mouth earlier in the day.<\/span><\/p>\n Fortunately, a night\u2019s sleep seemed to cure what ailed me, but before going to bed, I expressed that I felt a lot of regret for participating in a fairly meaningless contest, even if it was held by Willy\u2019s.\u00a0 The prizes were minimal, but the punishment I put onto my 40+ year old body was pretty vicious.<\/span><\/p>\n At first, I was just wondering if this was just my body reacting to ghost pepper, something I don\u2019t really think I\u2019d ever had before.\u00a0 But the reality is more likely that this was a stark reminder of how I\u2019m not the 25-year old that could eat whatever I wanted and shrug it off within hours.\u00a0 Lesson learned that this was a situation where I could\u2019ve been smarter and erred on the side of not punishing my body for a pretty useless reason.\u00a0 Even for Willy\u2019s, no matter how much of a fan I am of the brand.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I participated in this hot chicken tenders eating contest, because it was hosted by Willy\u2019s, basically my favorite eatery in the entire city of Atlanta metropolitan area.\u00a0 This is the same company in which I became the self-proclaimed Burrito King™ of Atlanta when I won a promotion they had where I had to visit and … Continue reading One of those my age is catching up with me moments<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,120,56,83,133],"class_list":["post-49894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-angst","tag-fat-people","tag-food","tag-observations","tag-old-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49896,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49894\/revisions\/49896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}