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- Emaze, on 10/12/2007, -20/+77My guess is either Flea or Anthony Kiedis. The ladies like both of them, no?
- TenMinuteParty, on 10/12/2007, -1/+36Yeah, I think Homer Simpson ate one and hallucinated.
- dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -1/+31When does a chili pepper stop becoming "hot", and just start corroding your fleshy human insides, like a potent acid? I'm curious. This just doesn't seem to be a safe thing to consume.
- Relentl3ss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+29@bixing -
Also wash VERY hard if you are invited upstairs by your partner - It turns out that habanero flavored fingers and lady bits don't mix. - nzknzknzk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+261,000,000 scoville units? Thats for sissies. Real men eat pure capsaicin.
- nepawoods, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22@dclowd9901
"When does a chili pepper stop becoming "hot", and just start corroding your fleshy human insides, like a potent acid? I'm curious. This just doesn't seem to be a safe thing to consume."
Actually, they don't actually "burn". The chemical in hot peppers that makes them hot is falsely registered by pain sensors in our skin. - osirisothedead, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23Grow your own. Seeds are available here:
http://www.reimerseeds.com/dorset-naga-hot-peppers.aspx
Expensive, though. $15 for 5 seeds. - tmesis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21The hottest chili peppers are usually minuscule...
- Neiby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19@billyboobs34
Please write us from the hospital bed. :-) - skankyBacon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18Feels just as spicy on the way out as well, I'll wager.
- habubu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19My dad can beat up your dad.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18@billlyboobs34:
"Under no circumstances should one of these chillies be left where an unwitting person, especially a child, might handle them." - ezweave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16But he saw Johnny Cash (as a coyote)....
So you're saying that if we eat the pepper, we get to hang out with Johnny Cash?
Score. - zephc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Guacamole, of course, just as Odin intended it.
- EXreaction, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15"Don't eat spicy food if you need to neutralize it."
Some people have stomachs that just can not handle that all the time. I love spicy food, but I will be up all night if it is too spicy and I don't have something like ice cream or some other dairy product at some point(doesn't have to be with it right away, but sometime after).
If your stomach is fine with it consider yourself lucky. Too much of anything even moderately spicy, for me, is like someone stabbing a fork in my stomach. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+19Where can I buy one?!
- Xanin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15What's with all the boasting comments? "I can eat 14" or "the hottest chilli is in my pants"
It seems the mean age of the Digg user has dropped to about 12. - squeevey, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Billy, I'm down with ya. I love the endorphin rush. The best way to eat spicy food. Drink a beer first, or a shot. Then, eat your spicy food. Your body starts processin a bit faster, the endorphins plus the shot, double awesome.
- DoodlesMcPooh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13That has got to burn! ouch!
- MonkeyMCSE, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11they have an ointment for that, you might want to go see a doctor
- Easty, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16What does everyone use to neutralise chili? Milk, water, beer, something else or do you just sit it out like a man?
- dagnabbit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9MtKo6zNkQ
- thatgirlismine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorset_Naga
Also, this is the second story in a row to hit the frontpage from reddit, and somewhere around the fifth or sixth today. - pron*, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Dugg for 'gobsmacked'.
- florin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10@dclowd9901
Never. The pain is caused by capsaicin stimulating the nerve terminations directly, not by a corrosive chemical burning the flesh. So it hurts, but there's no actual injury. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14Fine, digg me down, screw you guys. I'm going to try one when they come out from
http://www.peppersbypost.biz/types.asp
Thanks osirisothedead - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Let them control the seeds... you can be the first person to sequence the DNA, patent the gene sequence that makes it so hot. Then you can sue the seed distributors,
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Cash is dead, so if you eat the pepper you will die.
- kokorhekkus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Scoville rating of Dorset Naga: 876,000 - 1,598,227
Scoville rating of Habanero Chile: 100,000 - 350,000
Scoville rating of standard US pepper spray: 2,000,000 - 5,300,000
Sounds like damn hot to me.
Scoville ratings of peppers at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoville_scale#List_of_Scoville_ratings - EricAnderton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7"Mrs Michaud was stunned when the Dorset Naga gave a reading of nearly 900,000SHU. A fresh sample was sent to a lab in New York used by the American Spice Trade Association and recorded a mouth-numbing 923,000SHUs."
Um, that's a little more than "mouth-numbing" there, cowboy. I think that crosses the line from "edible" to "toxic". For comparison, Mace rates in at 2-5 million HSU, so a mere handful of these would be considered "crowd control" strength.
@easty: I think you'd use milk. And going by the measurement here, you'd need about a gallon of it if you ate one of these. Come to think of it, a taster so-equipped would probably pass out from the pain before they could get the lid off. - xobecide, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8On the contrary, mon ami... my lady friend awhile back is latino and it was a turn on.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13Chili peppers induce an endorphin rush. Much on a nice habanero.
It hurts the ***** outta your mouth but... kinda interesting.
Um, also wash your hands before using the bathroom. I had a bad experience with that. It woulda been worse had I been looking at porn! - Tenlow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I bet you were mean too when you were 12.
- Antha, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6@ Relentl3ss...
Being female, I can definitely back up your story. I have ended up sitting on the floor with an icy glass of bourbon terrectly on my naughty bits. Ay dios mio! - Maddcovv, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Interesting tidbit of information:
You mouth does not have taste buds that sense hot foods, its pain receptors on your tongue.
I used to eat hot foods until one day I ate some over seasoned crawfish at a Cajun restaurant and I cant eat anything hotter than cinnamon candy now. :( - intense321, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I always thought there was a Chiltepin that was grown that measured higher than 923,000. I remember reading that there were several reported deaths from eating the peppers produced by that single plant.
- Xanin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I'm not talking about being mean...I just don't get why some feel the need to boast on the internet of all places o.0
- nepawoods, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Guacamole is the only thing I've ever found to work.
- kiii, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@giveer
Milk is actually slightly acidic, not slightly basic.
http://www.mpcfaculty.net/mark_bishop/pH_range.jpg - endernet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4More info on the Hotness Factor: (With Picture)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoville_scale - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5A local child where I am from ate a pepper by accident and was temporarily hospitalized in a coma.
- diabolicglacier, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Better have a phone nearby to call an ambulance, too.
- Thuktun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4As an added bonus, the linked article spells "habanero" wrong.
- Ramtech, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5make your woman grow a mustache... ! lol
- Backpacker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4giveer...That might apply to irritation you'd get in your stomach, but it's actually the hydrophobic quality of capsaicin that you need to neutralize to get it out of your mouth. That's why drinking water doesn't do anything...it's like mixing oil and water, so the water just runs off. If you drink milk (which has a decent amount of fat), or eat buttered or oiled bread, you'll get the heat off your tongue in no time. I imagine soap would do the same thing, but I've never tried it. For more info on this, check wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsaicin - NtHammer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6i hope you mean LATINA (notice the feminine A at the end)
- wikk!d, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3on a related note, remember... wash your hands after handling these peppers. you never know when you'll have to run to the bathroom
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yeah, that pain freaked me out until I found out what it was.
I thought I had some random case of herpes (it took a while before it really set in). Wooo, it was the worse sensation I've ever felt. I was kinda laughing, but very confused.. then my girlfriend jokingly said, "What else did you do with those peppers?!"
Then it clicked.. "Oh damn, I didn't wash my hands before using the bathroom..." It lasted a good 40 minutes. It *really* burned, too. It's like the pain in your mouth that you feel... 100% on other parts. - themarq, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I can't help but notice that this article shows a publish date of April 1/2006. No I am not complaining that it's old, just wondering if it's a joke.
April Fool! - cheez, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Maybe, but the scoville heat unit is how they measure spicyness so I don't think it is.
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