Man Almost Dies After Eating Ghost Peppers

[soprano1]

Damn, that's high. Some idiot is gonna die eating that one on a dare, i bet.

[xirtamehtsitahw]

There is something a whopping 1000 times as powerful as pure capsaicin extract (the stuff that makes peppers hot). Pure capsaicin is registered at a blistering 16 million Scoville units. A chemical called resiniferotoxin, however, is registered at 16 billion Scoville units in its distilled form.

And on the subject of "world's hottest pepper", there's something called "Dragon's Breath", that looks like a miniature red habanero. Someone grew this "super-pepper" and then submitted it to Guinness for testing and possible verification as the world record hottest pepper.

[dlevere]

UK man collapses, rushed to hospital after almost putting the "Ghost" into Ghost Pepper