"plenty menty hot" reminds me of the time we took my inlaws to our favorite local Thai restaurant, ordered our heat level of 4 on a 5 scale, as my wife and I had done MANY times before, and as we all ate our food, we began to sweat and our faces turned red from the heat, for which it was explained to us "oh, we're getting chilis from Thailand now, they are much hotter than the chilis we had before".