FFF: The Jalapeño Contest

My first thought when reading this story is why the first thing the brothers did after not seeing each other for a while is sit down and have a jalapeño eating contest.  This contest seems very serious to the brothers.  The story says they laughed it off when they were younger but now it seems as if this contest is more of a pride contest, like whom is manlier.  They are starting to see things around each other and now I'm forced to wonder if the jalapeños are really jalapeños or if they are drugs or something of the sort.  It is like they are hallucinating.  I did not really like this story, it was weird.