History Main / FireBreathingDiner

* Seen in the music video 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.]]

** In the book ''Discworld/{{Hogfather}}'', the wizards are somewhat disappointed that Bilious, the Oh God of Hangovers, doesn't display this as part of the "humorous side effects" of the HideousHangoverCure they'd just made for him.

--->'''Peter''': I can eat this taco with two squirts of hot sauce.\\
'''Jason''': I can eat this taco with three squirts of hot sauce.\\
'''Peter''': Four squirts.\\
'''Jason''': Five squirts.\\
'''Peter''': Six squirts.\\
'''Jason''': Eat that taco.\\
''(foom)''\\
'''Andy''': [[FunnyBackgroundEvent Paige, stay out of this!]]

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* Sydney [[MeaningfulName Scoville]], the protagonist of ''Webcomic/GrrlPower,'' actively searches for this sort of thing, having an extreme love of spicy food. It generally astounds watchers and occasionally turns her breath into something approximating a chemical weapon.

* Webcomic/StupidFox believes that eating hot chili peppers will do this. [[http://stupidfox.net/45--backfire It doesn't quite work out the way he'd planned it.]] [[CloudCuckoolander StupidFox is kind of strange that way]].

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* ''WebVideo/TheTryGuys'' [[https://youtu.be/XEqknalf6OQ?t=5m10s try the spiciest dish in Los Angeles.]]

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* Spicy foods really do make you feel hot due to a substance called capsaicin. One of the reasons hot peppers are so popular in hot countries is that they make the consumer break out in a sweat. It's also why the morning after a really spicy meal can be unpleasant.
* The method of food preparation known as ''flambé'', in which the meal is doused with alcohol and set alight. Although the flames are usually extinguished fairly quickly, some dishes, such as Bombe Alaska, can remain ablaze for several minutes.
* Drinking 151, an over-proof rum with 75.5% of alcohol made by Bacardi, results in the feeling that one's mouth is burning.
* Huy Fong Foods was sued by the city of Irwindale, California, because the odors from its sriracha sauce plant were allegedly causing a public nuisance.
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* ''WebAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsDigitalSeries'': In "X Marks the Spot", Pinkie Pie eats a sushi roll with too much wasabi, and breathe ''green'' fire before dipping her face in a nearby fountain.

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* [[ComicBook/LuckyLuke Tortillas for the Daltons]] sees Lucky Luke as the victim of this trope. The Mexican who talked him into drinking tequila just says: "Refreshing, isn't it?"
* This is one of the effects of the HideousHangoverCure that ComicBook/{{Asterix}} accidentally invents in ''Asterix and the Laurel Wreath''.

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* In several HarryPotter fics firewhiskey makes the drinker breathe flames for several seconds after consumption.
* 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.
* ''FanFic/ThePiecesLieWhereTheyFell'': The [[spoiler:human Pinkie Pie]] does this all over Vix-Lei after eating a cupcake with a tabasco sauce filling. She loves it.

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* Peter Fox from ''Comicstrip/{{Foxtrot}}'' spent an entire week having to live down his girlfriend Denise's April Fool's joke- a chocolate rabbit filled with hot sauce, which he of course ate in about two bites before his mouth was set aflame.
** One strip had Jason cheerfully putting four bottles of hot sauce on his taco so he could breathe fire. He'd been to the dentist, and the painkillers hadn't worn off yet, preventing him from feeling the burn. "Is Novocaine great or what?"
* ''Comicstrip/{{Garfield}}'':
** [[http://garfield.com/comic/2000/09/17 One strip]] featured Garfield and Jon having a contest to see who can eat the hottest pepper without invoking this trope. Garfield loses after eating a [[MeaningfulName Peruvian Death Pepper]].
** In one Garfield Sunday strip Jon accidentally eats some dog food, and when he asks Garfield to brings him something to drink, Garfield obliges by bringing him a bottle of hot sauce. Jon chugs the bottle without looking at it; the next panel shows him clutching his throat, breathing fire, with his eyes wild and hair standing on end.
** Also happened to Garfield on [[http://garfield.com/comic/1982-06-19 his fourth birthday,]] because he swallowed his cake before blowing the candles out!
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* A magic item available in ''Forged By Dragon's Fire'', an ''TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness'' supplement, is the "ginger dragon", a small candy most often produced in rural China. They produce real fire.

* ''WebAnimation/MysterySkullsAnimated'': In the photo on Arthur's laptop in "Freaking Out" he can be seen in obvious pain with a trail of smoke emitting from his mouth from his spicy, ... milkshake? A closer look reveals Lewis's prankster sister Cayenne laughing under the table with a bottle of hot sauce in her hand implying she put hot sauce in the milkshake.

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* Ozymandias from ''Webcomic/OzyAndMillie'' [[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.

* ''Webcomic/TheWhiteboard'': In one of the Halloween arcs Jinx, already mutated by consumption of Doc's experimental Mountain Dew, drinks some more and [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1720.html snorts fire.]]

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* WebVideo/TheTryGuys [[https://youtu.be/XEqknalf6OQ?t=5m10s try the spiciest dish in Los Angeles.]]

* Sydney Scovillle, the protagonist of ''Webcomic/GrrlPower,'' actively searches for this sort of thing, having an extreme love of spicy food. It generally astounds watchers and occasionally turns her breath into something approximating a chemical weapon.

* Don't forgot [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3s9WvoTtxc Red Robin,]] okay okay so only smoke in this case, but hey where there's smoke...

* A ''Comicstrip/{{Garfield}}'' [[http://garfield.com/comic/2000/09/17 strip]] featured Garfield and Jon having a contest to see who can eat the hottest pepper without invoking this trope. Garfield loses after eating a [[MeaningfulName Peruvian Death Pepper]].

* ''Webcomic/StupidFox'' believes that eating hot chili peppers will do this. [[http://stupidfox.net/45--backfire It doesn't quite work out the way he'd planned it.]] [[CloudCuckoolander StupidFox is kind of strange that way]].

** The same batch of hotwings had the same effect on Doc's new LoveInterest [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2191.html here]].

* Buzzfeed's Try Guys [[https://youtu.be/XEqknalf6OQ?t=5m10s try the spiciest dish in Los Angeles.]]

* 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.

* Spicy foods really do make you feel hot due to a substance called capsaicin. One of the reasons hot peppers are so popular in hot countries is that they make the consumer break out in a sweat.
** It's also why the morning after a really spicy meal can be unpleasant.

* In several Franchise/HarryPotter fics, firewhiskey makes the drinker breathe flames for several seconds after consumption.
* In ''[[http://jeconais.fanficauthors.net/Happily_Ever_After/Chapter_2/ Happily Ever After]]'' Harry comes close to this when smoke comes out of his mouth after his first (and presumably last) taste of goblin cooking.

* Fire breath inducing black pepper "deserts" are a mentioned treat of Honeydukes in the Hogsmead establishment during ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban''.

* Fire breathing ''deserts'' are a mentioned treat of Honeydukes in the Hogsmead establishment during ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban''.

* A ''Comicstrip/{{Garfield}}'' [[http://garfield.com/index.php/comic/2000-09-17 strip]] featured Garfield and Jon having a contest to see who can eat the hottest pepper without invoking this trope. Garfield loses after eating a [[MeaningfulName Peruvian Death Pepper]].