The sad part is the tolerance you build to it. I love Thai food and one summer we spent a lot of time in the city and went to the same Thai restaurant in downtown Toronto for about three or four months over several visits to the city.

I loved their authentic curry Pad Thai and I always ordered it with a bit of their homemade chili garlic hot sauce. As the visits progressed, I kept wanting more and more chili garlic sauce. By the end of the summer, I was eating two small bowls of the stuff with every order … just for myself! The restaurant people weren’t happy and they started diluting the stuff to discourage me but I just kept wanting more like some sort of street drug addict … I even offered to pay more for it all like some crack addict craving the stuff.

I had to stop by the end of the summer when my stomach and gastronomic system gave up and I started developing bad indigestion and stomach problems and acid reflux :(