5774: Spiciest Pepper Eating Contest
Spiciest Pepper Eating Contest |
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Explanation[edit | edit source]
This strip is another take on substituting an actual pepper for the fictional "Peruvian Death Pepper", this time implying the pepper in question reduced Garfield to a skeleton. The author had this idea prior to 2023's official confirmation of Pepper X as the world's spiciest--#4059 having not waited for official confirmation--but still opted to make usage of the Dragon's Breath they had at the time of the idea (the Dragon's Breath's status as spicier than the Carolina Reaper, but less spicier than the Pepper X, is still officially unverified as of this writing).
Unlike other spicier-pepper substitution strips that previously ran on Square Root of Minus Garfield, this strip substitutes the earlier steps as well with prior recognized spiciest peppers--the ghost pepper (never a subject of an SRoMG pepper race strip prior to this strip--the only other time that pepper was mentioned was in 3870: Bad 2 Santa outside the scope of the pepper race--but the verified holder at the time SRoMG began), the Trinidad Moruga scorpion (subject of 1520: Garfield Plus an Actual Pepper), and the Carolina Reaper (subject of 1940: Garfield Plus an Even Spicier Pepper leading into the Dragon's Breath.
The author writes[edit | edit source]
Even though Dragon's Breath is no longer the hottest pepper, I wanted to bring this out for the sake of making this a twist since I had this idea before SRoMG #4059 came out. I made Jon's foot face the other way since it doesn't make sense in #1940 as that would imply Jon is lying next to Garfield.
Original strips: 1984-08-12, 1989-01-08, 2000-05-25, 2000-09-17, 2013-06-09.
Transcript[edit | edit source]
{Garfield and Jon, with a glass of water between them, look at each other eagerly...}
Jon: Hot pepper eating contest!
{Jon eats a Ghost Pepper}
Jon: Ghost Pepper!
{Garfield eats a Trinidad Moruga Scorpion}
Garfield: Trinidad Moruga Scorpion!
{Jon eats a Carolina Reaper}
Jon: Carolina Reaper!
{Garfield eats a Dragon's Breath}
Garfield: Dragon's Breath!
{Instead of breathing fire, despite the name, Garfield explodes}
SFX: POW!
{Garfield has been reduced to a smouldering skeleton}
Garfield: You win...
{Jon doesn't respond, as he is lying on the floor burnt to a crisp}