Wasabi!

It doesn't take much to entertain our family.  Yesterday we were at 14526 because Adam and Brian were working on Van Gogh's rotors.  After they were finished we hung out in Adam's garage.

Someone got the bright idea to have a wasabi pea eating contest.  Wasabi peas are dried edamame coated in a wasabi powder.  They are potent!  These peas are so addicting.  They give you that burning nasal feeling and make your head feel like it's going to explode, but it hurts so good!  You have to just keep going back for more to see how much you can handle.  Yeah, I know.  We're morons.

We tried eating them different ways to see if that reduced the burning intensity:  eating them without breathing (that makes a back draft in the back of your mouth, I do not recommend that technique) eating them with your mouth open, and holding your nose while eating them with your mouth open (the latter is Brian's recommended method.)

Our contest was to see who could go the longest without making any sort of face or having our eyes water.  We tried this with 6, then 8, then 12 wasabi peas at a time!

Here's our pictures.

our handfuls of peas

Ready, set, go!

I'm the first one out

My head!!!!!

I can't take it

Neither can Adam.  these pictures are blurry because Halle's laughing so hard and can't keep the camera still

Brian trying out his nose holding method.  Brian is the winner

I thought Jack was crying from all of the commotion.  Turns out he found a wasabi pea that fell on the floor and ate it.