Fire Eating
Created | Updated Apr 27, 2002
Warning! You cannot do this! Only very special people with flame retardant innards can achieve the temperatures necessary to consume fire without it consuming them back. These people are generally more anxious for cash than most and use their special gift as a way of entertaining the masses for small handfuls of loose change.
Fire eating generally involves putting the flaming end of a kerosene soaked stick in your mouth and removing it again with a flourish. It does occasionally have tragic and usually unforeseen consequences. Should you, for instance, swallow some of the kerosene and then belch, you might explode all over your audience, thus reducing your earning power by at least the front two rows.
