That's right - I said Red Hottt

[hiddenmuse]

"God Won't Hot Sauce You ... But You Need To Learn Consequences" {Or, the new Christian method of corporal punishment - AKA: "WWBWD? - What Would Blair Warner Do?"}


I swear, I'm not making it up. According to Christian circles, Hot Saucing the tip of your wee bairn's tongue is the way to punish them - without really punishing them.

What does this mean? Well, besides McIlhenny experiencing a spike in their sales - due to Upstanding Christian Parents using Tabasco in an almost sadistic manner - there will be the spawn of those Upstanding Christian Parents, afraid of anything beyond the utterly banal for the rest of their days, associating it (in an almost-Pavlovian sense) with punishment and negativity.


So, I leave it to you all to discuss, debate and decimate. Hot Saucing: Legitimate Punishment Method - or Borderline Child Abuse?

Comments

[princessmeesh.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't that be kinda dangerous? I mean, unless the parent was sadistic, they wouldn't be using the most potent hot sauce, but still....if used often often I would think it would burn their tougue, or do something funky to their taste buds...

[princessmeesh.livejournal.com]

doh! that last sentance was supposed to start if used often enough. I really should go to sleep

[hiddenmuse.livejournal.com]

From what the article was stating, there are experts (physicians, social workers, et al) saying that it could be dangerous - that a child could have an allergic reaction to the capsacin(sp?) in the hot sauce ... and some Child Protective Service offices regard it as an extreme punishment, akin to having a child kneel in a gravel pit - with their knees exposed.

[princessmeesh.livejournal.com]

oy. that pisses me off...I work with kids and I would never never NEVER even dream about doing something like that to them