About 10 years ago I brought some habaneros from my garden to the owner of a local restaurant (back then you couldn't get them locally). He wasn't in and so I gave them to the bar tender and explained what they were and that they needed to be put somewhere so no one mistook them for something else.
One of the cooks always bragged about being able to eat anything, nothing was too hot for him. Well, the bartender decided to play a joke on the cook. In all concience I could not sit there and allow it to happen and so in no uncertain terms told the guy not to eat it....he didn't pay attention to me. He didn't take a bite.....he put the wholel thing in his mouth and started chewing.
It is the closest I have ever come to seeing a black man turn white......prior to him turning green.
I suppose if you had any kind of heart ailment, you might actually die eating one of these....