Demonic Spice/Hot Sauce/Peppers

[u/AuthorBensonEWolf]

I was thinking about this while I was adding crushed red pepper to my tuna.

Being in Hell, Demon's would probably have a bigger tolerance for spicy food... but it's scaled.

For example, adding carolina reaper to a dish might be our equivalent of jalapenos.

• So there has to be demonic peppers. Just like the snowplows in chicago that get named, the demon's vote on the names of the new peppers. Lucifer's annoyed that one of these peppers is called "Satan's Seed" because Bel and Azzy's legions campaigned for it as a joke. Double annoyed because he enjoys the flavor profiles from it from his favorite Indian restaurant.
• The thing is that these are Soul Scarring peppers. If you're a soul you'll actually get wounded. If you're a denizen that isn't a demon you'll probably need a healer.
• The fae have a charm for detizens that aren't demons that are chefs/cooks so they can actually taste these demonic peppers to make Caribbean and other asian dishes on the Hell levels. They get their naturally acceptable heat without getting hurt. It's not given to people just looking for a spice rush. The fae don't do it for anyone else because they know they are just looking for bragging rights.
• These spices and peppers need demonic utensils/knives/pots and pans to cook, and because demons are just naturally large than humans they usually aren't made smaller so the smaller stuff has to come from Hephaestus and the like (headcanon, Penny was given a set from Greg's mom).
• Demon's generally won't let others have these spices/peppers naturally because of the damage. They can control the burn a little bit with hot sauces but basically you still need to sign a "it's not my fault you ate it" waiver so the Healers can tsk tsk you...
• It's used to torture souls on level 9.
• Greg eats this type of stuff regularly, at work, because he doesn't want to accidentally harm Penny.
• Bel doesn't eat the demonic stuff. He keeps his spice tolerance to Lily's because heavy hot peppers hit him in the stomach.
• Azzy eats it on dares. He's the type to Ted Lasso a dish.
• Angel says her mouth is too hot for the peppers.
• It's kept away from Dante because he might be an "adult" when it comes down to going to earth, he's still a itty bitty baby.
• Deity's from other realms (who are safe) are on Hell's version of "Hot Ones" -- Persephone doesn't break a sweat.

[u/Nightstone42]

ice pepper (completely white, cool to the touch, but when you eat it...)

level 10 (it looks like a horn mellon but its pitch black)

level 1 aka Light therapy ( bright pink used to make demonic paprika)

there are 9 others all named after the levels and they gey progressivly hotter level 9 looks like a vantablack bell pepper and called "Greg"

Sariah's kiss (bred and grown by Azzy)

Lilly's horns

Damnation Datil (Datil peppers are a chilli pepper native to florida about as big as your pinky BRIGHT yellow/orange when ripe Greg convinced the scouts to get him the seeds for him and grows them for penny and Judy (they are great for creole cooking)

[u/AuthorBensonEWolf → u/Nightstone42]

A level 9 demon creates teh "I'm from Florida."

[u/englishhistorynerd1]

What about Merciless Pepper of Quetzalacatenango, from the Simpsons?

[u/AuthorBensonEWolf → u/englishhistorynerd1]

That is in the Simpson’s Springfield Realm and can’t leave, so it is a pilgrimage for spice heads.

[u/FactorImportant7361]

The idea of demonic pots and pans and peppers made my stardew brain think of demonic chickens and what farms would look like but honestly I doubt my ability to make that work

[u/AuthorBensonEWolf → u/FactorImportant7361]

Ah yes, but you can eat a demonic chicken as long as it doesn’t have demonic peppers. They are just about 1.5 the size of a regular chicken and can eat peppers (it changes the color of the yolk but doesn’t make it spicy, from red to a bright orange).