Burger spicier than pepper spray sends UK journalists to hospital

Foxnews ^ | 7-10-2014

[equalator]

"The sauce uses a concentrated piri piri chili sauce from India. Gambardella estimated that the sauce measures between seven to nine million units on the Scolville scale.

Tabasco sauce comes in around 2,500 – 5,000, while pepper spray ranks 500,000 to five million units."

[willywill]

I know this is not a very Christian thing to say, but why does it hardly ever bother me when the victims are members of the media.

[Telepathic Intruder]

XXX Hot Chili Burger

Maybe they should rename it to “100 Million Degree Thermonuclear Fireball with a 10 Mile Radius Blast Zone Chili Burger”.

[ClearCase_guy]

Classic joke about the Texas BBQ judge:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/544975/posts

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

I love my spicy foods, but if this thing could put me in the hospital I think I’ll pass.

[equalator]

I’m a spice-wimp and tabasco is too much for me at 2500 units. 9 million would put me in the grave

[EQAndyBuzz]

“Maybe they should rename it to “100 Million Degree Thermonuclear Fireball with a 10 Mile Radius Blast Zone Chili Burger”.”

Next mornings ablutions must be like pooping a wood rasp.

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

I don’t care for Tabasco, personally. It isn’t the heat (I can tolerate more than it provides) but the lack of flavor.

[Flag_This]

"It's more tingly than hot."

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

Not-a-ping-worthy?

[Billthedrill]

I can imagine the conversation. "Now let me see, I need something nice and light. A salad, maybe? Little Italian dressing? Oh, wait, no, here's this 'XXX Hot Chili Burger. Please note next of kin before ordering.' Just the thing for a sensitive tummy, what?"

We were dining al fresco at a local barbecue place. My friend notices he's dripped a drop of the super hot sauce on the table, and then a wasp lands, touches it, and promptly keels over dead. True story. I switched to the mild sauce, myself.

[who knows what evil?]

Nom-a-licious!

[equalator]

They're putting this piri piri stuff in anything

[Telepathic Intruder]

Or like someone said in “Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead”, like white hot razor blades.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

This is my limit.

[TLI]

FOX 5.3 (million)

And this burger was 7 - 9 million?

Does it cook itself just sitting there?

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[who knows what evil?]

Piri piri has been part of the hot sauce scene for years...maybe it’s being pimped as the hysteria over ‘ghost peppers’ winds down.

[Squawk 8888]

Must be the qualifying round for the Darwin Awards.

[Secret Agent Man]

i am sorry’but if it’s hotter than pepper spray it ain’t food. it isn’t edible.

these people aren’t making an edible burger.

[Vendome]

Yuh kan’t fix stoopit.