Posted on 09/02/2016 9:57:12 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The incident happened during the lunch period, and the district was still working to determine how many students were involved and where the hot peppers came from, said Superintendent Brad Ritchey of Milton-Union Exempted Village Schools.
Police and emergency crews were called to the school on Milton-Potsdam Road. The investigation revealed all involved students “took these peppers voluntarily,” according to police.
In total, five students were taken to local hospitals and approximately 40 students — ages 11 to 14 — had ingested the peppers.
“The response of emergency services was amazing; deputies and help from surrounding paramedics … we really had a lot of help here this afternoon,” Ritchey said. “This was serious but sometimes situations at schools become far more serious than this.”
Ritchey said symptoms ranged from blotchy skin, hives, tearing of eyes, sweating and general discomfort.
Cody Schmidt, an eighth-grader at the school, said he tried one of the peppers and it was in fact “really hot.”
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Louisiana and Tabasco are like ketchup in comparison.
For me my limit is up to the Serrano.
My father taught me when your mouth is hot from eating a hot pepper. Sprinkle some Salt on a spoon or on your hand and eat it. It does work, I do not know why, but it does. The hotness tend to go away quick after having Salt in your mouth and eating it.
“Here, hold my juice box and watch this!”
I had way too many fried anaheim pepper sandwiches a few weeks ago. Some are mild and then there are ones that make my mouth burn. I haven’t figured out how to tell the difference, so it’s always a surprise.
Years back, I made the mistake of planting my Anahiem chilies next to my Jalapeños. Cross pollination!
With the years has come an increased sensitivity to hot. My wife only uses a small fraction of the Thai chilies in her cooking as she used to. A Thai recipe for steamed fish covered with chilies, garlic and lime is forever out of our ability. Used to love it.
I tried a taste of one of those brutal multi-million-on-the-Scoville Scale novelty hot sauces, because I generally like spicy foods.
A guy I worked with had a bottle of it on his desk. I put a drop the size of a pinhead on the web of my hand. He said “No- wipe half of that away, not kidding”. I did, and tasted the remainder.
It felt a lot like getting CSed in the gas chamber at Combat Engineer School did. Stuff packs a real wallop. Not sure what it’s good for, except maybe making a swimming pool full of chili that no one can eat.
Ritchey said symptoms ranged from blotchy skin, hives, tearing of eyes, sweating and general discomfort.
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And they’ll get to enjoy them a second time when they come out the other end.
I like hot peppers and I have some ghost pepper sea salt. The folks at the sea salt store said that they had to wear gas masks when grinding the ghost peppers to put in the salt.
The salt is really hot and do not know how someone could take more than a nibble of a whole pepper without tearing up and maybe choking.
I dont like food that is scorching hot.
I do like pepper spices, and chili spices, with curcumin, but blowing out my tastebuds with something that is essentially inedible, is not eating food, to me.
I was dared once, in my youth, to eat a habanero. I did so in one bite, chewed and swallowed. Bad, bad mistake. Needless to say, I learned my lesson in moderation for spicy. :)
>>>Anaheim is about my limit.<<<
I usually don’t go further North than Garden Grove, unless I’m going to Disneyland. 8#;^)
Making "challenge" videos for YouTube.
I love em. But that’s just me.
The best you can find in stores around here are Habañeros. Wish I knew where to get some Ghost Peppers!
I believe the Carolina Reaper is the hottest pepper going, scoville scale 2,200,000, in case someone is dumb enough to try.
That’s funny. But the thing is that was just an orange designer bell pepper variant (looks like) and probably only mildly hot. Still funny though.
Fatalii Gourmet Jigsaw is reportedly hotter than Carolina Reaper, although it has yet to be confirmed by Guinness. I have a couple dozen of these ‘Jigsaw’ plants. :-)
I might have had some in Okinawa, they were about an inch long and IIRC were yellow. Locals would nibble on one end while eating their meal. I made the mistake of eating one whole.
Many years ago, I was at a Chinese restaurant with friends. One decided to show he was tough and put one of those fried up red/black peppers into his mouth. He lasted just a few seconds before grabbing a water pitcher from a passing waiter and drinking it down.
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