“The Merciless Peppers of Quetzlzacatenango! Grown deep in the jungle primeval by the inmates of a Guatemalan insane asylum!”
Capsicum just stimulates nerve endings. It does not damage flesh. Complete Bullshirt story.
I love peppers and hot stuff but there are enough hot enough peppers around that I’ve never felt the need to try a Ghost Pepper.
snowflake.
That tears it. No ghost peppers for me.
Probably didn't do the ol' rectum any good on the way out, either.
I guess it's my wimpish avoidance of unnecessary pain. I've already been married...
He spent 23 days in the hospital recovering from the incident—the costs of which we can safely assume far outweighed whatever the prize was in the eating contest.
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This reminds me of the guy who died after a roach eating contest a few years back, in Florida, of course.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-20503586
Ghost peppers are hardly ordinary supermarket “chili” peppers one would know as typical.
And yes, I do take a lot of tumeric and curcumin and pepper everyday. It is a great antibiotic, antiparisitical, anti-inflammatory, item, among other things.
“The Merciless Peppers of Quetzlzacatenango! Grown deep in the jungle primeval by the inmates of a Guatemalan insane asylum!”
I had some ghost pepper salsa one time. Very tasty and surprisingly not as hot as I expected. The flavor from these peppers is very good.
After that, however, I tried some ghost pepper hot sauce. Man, that hurt. Good thing I had a bottle of water in hand.