Do you like spicy food? Think you can handle the hottest and spiciest? So did the 1000 people who gathered in Denmark to eat the world’s hottest pepper….they were wrong!
I bet you’ve all heard of the jalapeno pepper, a rather spicy treat that many have tried. But what about the ghost pepper?
On the Scoville scale of hotness, the fiery jalapeno pepper is between 3,500 and 4,000 SHUs.
The ghost pepper ranges between 800,000 to over 1 million SHUs! It would mean sticking 230 jalapeno peppers in your mouth to have the same effect as a single small ghost pepper.
The pepper is so hot that India’s Defence Research and Development Organization has been researching a way to make the pepper into a weapon similar to tear gas.
1000 brave people showed up in Denmark to eat ghost peppers, leaving many with watering eyes and even causing some to throw up!
There was lots of milk handed out for those who could no longer take the heat as milk is far more effective at cooling down your mouth after spicy food than water.
Each participant walked away with a certificate congratulating their bravery and a memory of a rather hot event!
Article written by D Mulhern
41 Responses
That would be so cool to do I have never tried peppers before
What are they crazy?
Aaaaaahhh!
Never eat those!
I will NEVER eat them!
Wow!! I can’t stand even mildly spicy food!!!!!
Hahaha! Make it into tear gas?? xD Wow! luv it! Creative and stupid, Yet a brilliant way to use it! Congratz to anyone who tried it.
THAT IS AWESOME THAT THEY TRIED IT ANYWAY TRY NEW THINGS BUT SOO SPICEY I CANT EVEN TAKE MILD !
AHHH!!! IT BURNS!!!!
I wander how hot the pepper was. if tasted it i would sweat more than they would
well i certainly wouldn’t go there!!!
: taste ghost pepper : Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh so hot aahhhhhhh!!!!’!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mmmmmmm tatsy peppers it’s so……….. AAAAAAH it burns
i would probley never eat that 🙂
I eat peppers so I would try that ghost pepper!
Yummy yummy chilli mmmmmmmmmmmmm
Wow i wish i could be brave like that and get a certificate…
aewsome but must be hot and spicey better get some ice then
1st I don’t like spicy food only mild spicy 2nd those people were really brave and stupid 3rd I have heard of the jalapeño pepper but not the ghost pepper till now!
i will be abel tao eat it
Oww..
hot hot hot
Hmm I like spicy food
I would never ver in my whole life eat a ghost pepper ever even if I was dared too!!!
That’s what I call spicy
hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot
Ou I’ve tasted that
spicy
i think you would have to be crazy to try that!!!!!!!
i want some!!!!
who would have the guts to eat an ghost pepper?
That must be really really spicy
Wow
wow hot
I hate spicy food i can barly eat an eighth of a japaleno peper but it might be fun to try call me crazy if want
I would neva eva ete that! Ps my name is Keeley Watson
I know one person that ate the ghost pepper and didn’t cry or throw up.
His name is Sohinki
I would try, but I’d get some of my friends to do it with me XD
ive never tried a chilli pepper before but I think this might make me want to
Those guys are fired……….FIRED UP!!!!!!!!!!
i have tried chilli peppers before but they were weak.
Crazy People!!
hi guys why did you call some people crazy