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Post by CMF Newsman on Oct 31, 2007 9:23:07 GMT -5
It's hot. Scorching hot. Guinness World Records hot. Researchers at New Mexico State University have discovered the world’s hottest chili pepper. It's called the Bhut Jolokia, a variety originating in Assam, India. In tests that yield Scoville heat units (SHUs), the Bhut Jolokia reached 1 million SHUs, almost double the SHUs of former hotshot Red Savina (a type of habanero pepper), which measured a mere 577,000. The result was announced today by the American Society for Horticultural Science. Chili is spelled "chile" by some, including Paul Bosland, director of the Chile Pepper Institute at New Mexico State’s Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences. Bosland collected seeds of Bhut Jolokia while visiting India in 2001. He grew the plants for three years to produce enough seeds to complete the field tests. full story |
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Post by Justin Thyme on Oct 31, 2007 9:37:54 GMT -5
I want to try some.
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Post by tncoaster37 on Oct 31, 2007 10:18:06 GMT -5
give them to some prisoners on death row. Screw them if they cry inhumane since they are going to die one way or another.
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Post by Justin Thyme on Oct 31, 2007 10:27:56 GMT -5
If I were on death row I'd be begging for these peppers. I can't imagine the high these things must induce.
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Post by tncoaster37 on Oct 31, 2007 10:42:54 GMT -5
think of how painful it will be though after the high.
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Post by Justin Thyme on Oct 31, 2007 10:45:05 GMT -5
No, the pain comes before the high. Eat these things and your eyes begin to water, your throat starts closing up and you feel all sorts of pain and then.... euphoria overtakes you and the pain just doesn't matter.
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TNBear
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Post by TNBear on Nov 1, 2007 19:19:36 GMT -5
Endorphin Rush!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by daworm on Nov 2, 2007 7:55:15 GMT -5
There's a pain afterwards all right. About 8 to 12 hours afterwards.
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ceallach
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Where am I going and why am I in a handbasket?
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Post by ceallach on Nov 4, 2007 20:29:22 GMT -5
There's a pain afterwards all right. About 8 to 12 hours afterwards. Come on Ice cream........ |
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