A therapy-grade hot sauce could be made by "re-distilling" spicy food (passing it several times through the alimentary canal). The body would absorb more and more of whatever is absorbable in the food leaving only the boarder-line, unabsorbable, spicy, "aquired" tastes. The excrement might be "cleaned" before reingestion if it is possible to clean without removing the desired distillates, but hardcore spice- therapy enthusiasts would probably reintroduce matter without processing for a "purer" final product. The final product of repeat distillings of a carefully prepared meal would be a proof-is-in-the-pudding sort of way of turning up the contrast and brightness on an individual's taste over a certain period of time. Artists would evolve around this practice. -- Have you tried the Joe Blough, "Summer Vacation 2005?" Also, this would be a way for healers to be extremely precise about what they recommend as a theraputic concoction. The resulting "sauce" would be a distillation of all the boarderline aquired tastes they chose to eat at the first sitting.-- JesusHChrist, May 04 2005 But how do you separate the undigested bland fiber from undigested spice. And is the undigestable spice really "better"?-- sophocles, May 04 2005 hmm... maybe separating liquid from solid? Maybe what floats from what doesn't?-- JesusHChrist, May 04 2005 The undigestable spice would be "spicier" if not better.-- JesusHChrist, May 04 2005 I prefer unadulterated crap; the purist in me screams, "Know! Know for sure!".-- reensure, May 04 2005 Erm... yuk.-- david_scothern, May 04 2005 One wonders how JHC knows that the shat-out spices are 'spicyer' [sic] than the ones that went in.-- waugsqueke, May 04 2005 "Spice is the variety of life" -- Terrence McKenna-- JesusHChrist, May 05 2005 yeah! lets eat poop!-- Voice, Feb 21 2008 random, halfbakery