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The (null) -team is looking for your ideas and comments. Join and show your support for (null).  Hot sauceFor certain feeding-related contexts. Addition of a suitably powerful hot sauce into somebody's food, which is then ingested, may lead to short-time temporary disabling of that person, who suddenly gets a set of mouth-on-fire related problems to immediately take care of. Usually accompanied with a telltale comedic behavior. A few chosen people from the top ranks of chileheads are virtually immune to such effects. This difference in the individual response rate may be used to lure the victim into thinking that their bottle of ketchup is not spiked with anything dangerous. Said extreme chileheads, adapted to the effects of capsaicin, also tend to have very attenuated response to pepper spray. |
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I know. I tend to take things too seriously and sometimes find it difficult to see when to stop.
...but in many cases it's more fun that way :D
Hey, we're not really going to do this, it is just for a fictional film... :)
All we need is the dramatic concept of something hot being put in the food. It doesn't matter whether a particular brand would actually work.
Tabasco is probably the best known brand in this field, so if there was a real world brand shown then that would be the one most familiar to the audience.
Tabasco is weak. Try out the infamous Dave's Insanity Sauce. Also, according to friends from Texas, other over-the-top rated ones to try are Vicious Viper, Black Mamba, the aptly named You Can't Handle This!, and few others. Some manufacturers even offer pure capsaicin - the food industry equivalent of a tactical nuclear demolition grenade. There's a small but hot market segment catered for by a few vendors, e.g. this one:
http://www.chez-williams.com/Hot%20Sauce/hothome.htm
Check out the table for the Scoville unit strength for comparison. Tabasco is somewhere... below. :D
Other set of available offers is here:
http://www.saucestore.com/hottest-hot-sauce.html
Also, for description of rating the hot sauce (and conversely, OC-based pepper sprays), see here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoville_scale
FOrget tabasco, Dave's Insanity Sauce is the way to go:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/jeremy_clarkson/article6860067.ece
Also, something like hat, a much smaller amount is needed so there is no suspiciousd "WHy is my food the worong color=?" moments.
THe ketchup bottle scenario is still possible as well - I have consumed this stuff straight eithout ill effects. :P
This would be a really good way of temporarily distracting/disabling someone without any kind of violent intent, and it would also be something the whole audience can relate to (it's almost road runner territory!).
Maybe the spy has intercepted a person's takeaway lunch and inserted a large amount of tabasco into it...