Responding to the Reading

Read “Eating Chili Peppers” and answer the following questions. Then “submit” your work.

Question 13.41

1. Reaction How would you react if a waiter accidentally served you the wrong dish — one loaded with chili peppers — and you unsuspectingly took a big bite?

Question 13.42

2. Journal Do you have a favorite food or a food that you cannot tolerate? Choose one of the two and describe the food in vivid detail.

3. Discussion In small groups, discuss the spiciest foods that you have ever eaten and your reaction.

4. Essay MacClancy compares eating a chili pepper to going to a horror movie, riding a roller coaster, or stepping into a cold bath after a sauna. He says the experience of eating a chili is a cheap, legal thrill. Write an essay in which you describe a different kind of legal thrill. Be sure to use words that appeal to the senses.

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