How Kansas City learned to stop worrying and love Da’Bomb
Spicin Foods’ deliberately punishing hot sauce sells one millionth bottle
June 3, 2021
If you’ve never seen
Hot Ones the hit YouTube series from First We Feast in which celebrities are interviewed eating hot wings allow me to suggest an entry point: Paul Rudd.
In the viral 2019 episode, Kansas City’s prodigal son suffers through a series of increasingly hot sauces with Midwest stoicism. The producers have placed a pint of milk at his side; he doesn’t touch it. He jokes with the host and plays around with his phone camera, never losing his Golden Retriever grin.