re: What is the hottest hot sauce/hottest thing you have ever had??

Home-made pickled pepper just outside of Puebla, Mexico, up in the mountains, when I was 18. Grown and preserved by Mexican GF's aunt.

First bite blew the top of my head off, with sinuses emptying out and a feeling of being very high.

My buddy, who was blond and fair, turned beet red. He had to go to the bathroom and deal with his sinuses. His first bite was his last.

I finished mine, though I took tiny bites with plenty of rice, fish, bread, and water to help it along.