History Main / FireBreathingDiner

* A vseries of commercials for UsefulNote/TacoBell's Volcano Taco determines who stole and ate said Volcano Taco by having the person breathing fire.

* A very similar series of commercials for Taco Bell's Volcano Taco used the same trope, namely to determine who stole and ate said Volcano Taco.

** Ozymandias [[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.
** Another time, we see the [[https://ozyandmillie.org/1999/07/02/ozy-and-millie-168/ aftermath]] of a meal that was too spicy for a dragon.

* The SF short story ''Buck and the Gents from Space'' features a young boy from the Southwest US serving a group of aliens a meal made primarily of chili peppers. Their reaction is described as being "sort of like the Apache snake dance, except they didn't have no snakes in their mouths. Maybe they would've ''preferred'' a snake, at that." He then offers them some of the hired hand's rotgut tequila to wash it down with, prompting much the same reaction.

* The Creator/RayStevens song "Red Hot Chili Cookoff" tells of an unfortunate fellow who was roped into judging a Texas chili cook-off when his pal (the local judge) fell ill. Unfortunately, this trope is played for BlackComedy because the Texas chili is so hot it causes internal damage.

->''"It's like a hell in my mouth and everyone's been'' '''''damned!"'''''

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* A very similar series of commercials for Taco Bell's Volcano Taco used the same trope, namely to determine who stole and ate said Volcano Taco.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mVJT7C7tHE Red Robin]] only has smoke in this case, but, [[AsYouKnow hey, where there's smoke]]...

* A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVUrQgWyvZw Wendy's commercial]] features test subjects taste-testing another restaurant's attempt at chicken strips. One man tries their sauce, which results in him yelling and breathing out fire.

* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Td_4HzF0qI Flaming Hot Cheetos]] commercials have this happen, typically with Chester Cheetah.

* A long gout of flames is one of the effects of the HideousHangoverCure that ComicBook/{{Asterix}} accidentally invents in ''Asterix and the Laurel Wreath''.

* One ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' oneshot has Betty Cooper making chili. To demonstrate how spicy her chili is, she takes a spoonful, and the ''breathes'' on a candle. Her breath is so hot it ignites the wick!

* In ''[[http://jeconais.fanficauthors.net/Happily_Ever_After/Chapter_7/ Happily Ever After]]'' this happens to Fred and George after their first taste of goblin food. Harry plans to use this in a restaurant, having a "Eat a dish of goblin food and your party's meal is free" hook and sets them to replicating the sensation without the actual flames.

* [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/54477/celestia-and-luna-eat-a-hot-pepper Celestia and Luna Eat a Hot Pepper]] gives us ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. At first the [[PunnyName Mareuga Scorpion]] they eat is relatively sweet. Until that is Celestia literally becomes this trope, spitting flames like a dragon hot enough to melt her throne. Luna fares no better, discharging lightning instead of fire until both cave in and go for the buckets of milk to ease the pain.

* ''WebAnimation/TheMostEpicStoryEverToldInAllOfHumanHistory'': [[MeaningfulName Epic Fail]] eats an entire glob of wasabi. This results in fire shooting out of his mouth with the caption “Mount Vesuvius Eruption: 79 AD”.

* ''Webcomic/PocketPrincesses'': In [[http://amymebberson.tumblr.com/post/69899564138/pocket-princesses-86-spicy-please-reblog-do this strip]], [[WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog Tiana]]'s gumbo is so spicy that it turns [[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 Elsa]]'s ice powers into water powers.

* [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/54477/celestia-and-luna-eat-a-hot-pepper Celestia and Luna Eat a Hot Pepper]] gives us ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. A first the [[PunnyName Mareuga Scorpion]] they eat is relatively sweet. Until that is Celestia literally becomes this trope, spitting flames like a dragon hot enough to melt her throne. Luna fares no better, discharging lightning instead of fire until both cave in and go for the buckets of milk to ease the pain.

* ''WebAnimation/EtraChanSawIt'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmVu5hRLdbA Akamatsu]] deliberately serves extremely spicy ramen to customers that he doesn't like for [[ForTheEvulz his own amusement]], it eventually backfires when he serves his spicy ramen to a nerdy looking customer, causing him to be admitted into a hospital due to the extreme spiciness from the ramen. Akamatsu eventually gets fired from his job and the ramen company also demands compensantion money from him for the damages he did.

* ''WebAnimation/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers'': In "Mario Gets Lit", [[WebAnimation/SunsetParadise Aziz Yousi's]] peppers exaggerate this trope by having you not only breath but ''catch'' fire after eating too many. In fact, just licking one of them causes Meggy to shrivel up from the heat.

''WebAnimation/EtraChanSawIt'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmVu5hRLdbA Akamatsu]] deliberately serves extremely spicy ramen to customers that he doesn't like for [[ForTheEvulz his own amusement]], it eventually backfires when he serves his spicy ramen to a nerdy looking customer, causing him to be admitted into a hospital due to the extreme spiciness from the ramen. Akamatsu eventually gets fired from his job and the ramen company also demands compensantion money from him for the damages he did.

* [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/54477/celestia-and-luna-eat-a-hot-pepper Celestia and Luna Eat a Hot Pepper]] gives us ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. A first the [[PunnyName Mareuga Scorpion]] they eat is relatively sweet. Until that is Celestia literally becomes this trope, spitting flames like a dragon hot enough to melt her throne. Luna fares no better, turning into a living hurricane and lightning storm until both cave in and go for the buckets of milk to ease the pain.

* [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/54477/celestia-and-luna-eat-a-hot-pepper Celestia and Luna Eat a Hot Pepper]] gives us ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. A first the [[PunnyName Mareuga Scorpion]] they eat is relatively sweet. Until that is Celestia literally becomes this trope, spitting flames like a dragon got enough to melt her throne. Luna fares no better, turning into a living hurricane and lightning storm until both cave in and go for the buckets of milk to ease the pain.

* In several ''Franchise/HarryPotter'', fics firewhiskey makes the drinker breathe flames for several seconds after consumption.

The fourth hottest pepper in the world is the Naga Viper pepper, coming in at a mouth-scorching, sweat-inducing 1,382,118 Scoville Heat Units (for comparison, the Jalapeño ranks 2,500-8,000). It has been trounced in March 2011 by the Trinidad Scorpion Butch T chili, which clocks in at 1,463,700 SHU; in February 2012 by the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion, which measures 2,009,231 SHU; and in 2018 by the Carolina Reaper, which is rated at 2.2 million SHU. Hot sauces made from any "super-hot" peppers (or even ''all of them'') have to be stored in glass, because they all corrode plastic like (snaps fingers *click!*) ''that''.

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* [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Link]] from ''Webcomic/AwkwardZombie'' likes ''Super Smash Bros'' curry so much, he set the group's apartment on fire several times and burnt through his stomach wall.

* In the webcomic ''Freighter Tales'', a robot coaxes [[ButtMonkey Mzzkitti]] into eating a batch of Huevos Rancheros... [[http://www.mzzkiti.com/log016.htm who plays the trope]] in true, cartoonish manner.

* Seen in the AnimatedMusicVideo for Loco Loco's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSzgNRzpjo8 "It Burns Burns Burns"]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXlrCKujdhg and]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEw8bn02tcs the]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQd5epbbSO0 meme]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXkhL8BrxV8&feature=youtu.be it]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4jBE98F85k&feature=youtu.be sparked.]]

* ''Machinima/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers'': In "Mario Gets Lit", [[WebAnimation/SunsetParadise Aziz Yousi's]] peppers exaggerate this trope by having you not only breath but ''catch'' fire after eating too many. In fact, just licking one of them causes Meggy to shrivel up from the heat.

In RealLife, capsaicin (the chemical found in 'hot' foods) works by directly stimulating the nerves responsible for detecting heat. This fools the brain into thinking the affected area is being burned and causes heat-related effects such as a flushed face and sweating. However, no spice can actually produce ''real'' heat, let alone fire - although there are certainly some foods that can make you ''feel'' like your mouth is on fire.

While foods containing menthol have the opposite effect, stimulating cold receptors, inversions of this trope involving freezing due to excessive mint consumption are rare outside of ads for breath mints. This is likely due to the fact that minty foods rarely achieve the levels of discomfort associated with capsaicin, unless you drink ice water while chewing particularly potent gum.

The fourth hottest pepper in the world is the Naga Viper pepper, coming in at a mouth-scorching, sweat-inducing 1,382,118 Scoville Heat Units (for comparison, the Jalapeño ranks 2,500-8,000). It has been trounced in March 2011 by the Trinidad Scorpion Butch T chili, which clocks in at 1,463,700 SHU; in February 2012 by the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion, which measures 2,009,231 SHU; and in 2018 by the Carolina Reaper, which is rated at 2.2 million SHU. Hot sauces made from any "super-hot" peppers (or even ''all of them'') have to be stored in glass, because they all corrode plastic like (*click!*) ''that''.

** A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J31hjRbC3SA Flamethrower]] commercial features a man breathing fire on his work desk after having eaten the advertised burger; sort of a live-action [[MemeticMutation Spicy burger is spicy]].

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mVJT7C7tHE Red Robin]] only has smoke in this case, but hey where there's smoke...

* The commercial for Advertising/MAndMs' [[MilestoneCelebration 75th anniversary]] flavors has Yellow consuming their appropriate ingredients. For Honey Nut he eats a jar of honey and gets attacked by [[ScaryStingingSwarm bees]]. For Coffee Nut he drinks several cups of [[KlatchianCoffee coffee]] and gets jittery. For Chili Nut he crams his mouth with red peppers, setting it on fire.

Excessively spicy food invariably results in a (usually metaphorical) [[BreathWeapon 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). Sometimes it may be accompanied by a factory-like steam whistle or a fire alarm sound.