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Burger spicier than pepper spray sends UK journalists to hospital
Foxnews ^ | 7-10-2014

Posted on 07/10/2014 5:49:11 PM PDT by equalator

Arron Hendy and Ruari Barratt were dining at U.K. eatery Burger Off. Each took one bite of the “XXX Hot Chili Burger.” Minutes later, Barratt began suffering from severe stomach pain and soon lost feeling in his hands. His legs also began shaking and his eyes rolled to the back of his head, reports The Argus.

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.

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"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."

1 posted on 07/10/2014 5:49:11 PM PDT by equalator
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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.


2 posted on 07/10/2014 5:52:35 PM PDT by willywill
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To: equalator

XXX Hot Chili Burger

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


3 posted on 07/10/2014 5:53:27 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: equalator

Classic joke about the Texas BBQ judge:

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


4 posted on 07/10/2014 5:54:06 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("Harvey Dent, can we trust him?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBsdV--kLoQ)
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To: equalator

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


5 posted on 07/10/2014 5:54:48 PM PDT by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (I'm not anti-government, government's anti-me.)
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I’m a spice-wimp and tabasco is too much for me at 2500 units. 9 million would put me in the grave


6 posted on 07/10/2014 5:56:09 PM PDT by equalator
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To: Telepathic Intruder

“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.


7 posted on 07/10/2014 5:56:13 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (GM is dead and Al Queada is alive.)
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To: equalator

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


8 posted on 07/10/2014 5:59:12 PM PDT by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (I'm not anti-government, government's anti-me.)
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"It's more tingly than hot."


9 posted on 07/10/2014 6:00:28 PM PDT by Flag_This (Liberalism: Kills countries dead.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Not-a-ping-worthy?


10 posted on 07/10/2014 6:00:54 PM PDT by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (I'm not anti-government, government's anti-me.)
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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.

11 posted on 07/10/2014 6:01:00 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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Nom-a-licious!


12 posted on 07/10/2014 6:01:52 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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They're putting this piri piri stuff in anything

13 posted on 07/10/2014 6:04:43 PM PDT by equalator
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To: EQAndyBuzz

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


14 posted on 07/10/2014 6:07:39 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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This is my limit.


15 posted on 07/10/2014 6:10:32 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need more than seven rounds, Much more.)
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FOX 5.3 (million)

And this burger was 7 - 9 million?

Does it cook itself just sitting there?

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16 posted on 07/10/2014 6:10:58 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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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.


17 posted on 07/10/2014 6:12:27 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: equalator

Must be the qualifying round for the Darwin Awards.


18 posted on 07/10/2014 6:14:41 PM PDT by Squawk 8888 (Lacrosse- Canada's national sport, like hockey only violent)
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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.


19 posted on 07/10/2014 6:16:56 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: equalator

Yuh kan’t fix stoopit.


20 posted on 07/10/2014 6:22:11 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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