Hot Foods and Kids

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When did you let your kids start eating hot (burn the hair out of your nose just by smelling it) foods? I got a call not so long back from the school saying the lunch my son took was totally inappropriate for a 9yo and I would have to bring him something or pay the cafeteria a charge because they were going to let him eat something dangerous. He took an order of hot wings, which by his standards weren't nearly as hot as the jalapeno dill pickles spears he had been taking. They actually refused to let him eat it and called children's services to investigate. Just to spite them I agreed to bring him something knowing he would ask for the spiciest thai he could remember the name of. The real b*tch of it was they tossed the wings rather than give them back to me. So when did you start eating spicy food? How about your kids? When I was a kid the hottest and most tasteless thing we had in the I ever had were the jalapeno slices that sat in the fridge for nearly four years before they were thrown out. My stepmom got them for some recipe someone gave her. She smoked horrible nasty unfiltered cigarettes but anything spicier than a little black pepper was somehow too much and too much better was obscene. Dad's top for spicy food cavenders greek season salt. Them "damned mexicans" of which our town had but a handful ate that kind of spicy stuff and he wouldn't have it around for fear of making me less white or worse gay. If running mash potatoes needed seasoning, you mixed them with lumpy gravy. If lumpy gravy needed seasoning, salt was only 32 cents a pound. Then there was a bright spot in my life. A man and his wife moved into the neighborhood. I showed interest in his daughter, she showed interest in me, Dad knew I wasn't gay when we were caught, and her dad was as biggoted as they came so my parents got along great with him. I might have had to put up with a few more years of idiots, but I had me a catholic girlfriend who everyone was sure was a proper parochial school girl (except my father) and I began my love affair with spicy food. Anyone else with kids and spicy food stories?