"I guess growing up a pyromaniac did have it's pluses."

That reminds me of my younger pyromaniac days. We used to play around with Sodium Chlorate (weed killer) mixed with sugar 50/50. That was some neat burning stuff. Don't know if it would catch a spark from a fero rod though. Maybe from one of those big honking BlastMatches. These days playing with a mixture like that would probably get you branded as a terrorist, but back in my youth it was standard fair for bored teenage boys!