Are you ready for the hottest chili pepper in world? http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/31/asia/AS-FEA-GEN-India-Ghost-Chili.php
CHANGPOOL, India: The farmer, a quiet man with an easy smile, has spent a lifetime eating a chili pepper with a strange name and a vicious bite. His mother stirred them into sauces. His wife puts them out for dinner raw, blood-red morsels of pain to be nibbled — carefully, very carefully — with whatever she's serving.
Around here, in the hills of northeastern India, it's called the "bhut jolokia" — the "ghost chili." Anyone who has tried it, they say, could end up an apparition.
"It is so hot you can't even imagine," said the farmer, Digonta Saikia, working in his fields in the midday sun, his face nearly invisible behind an enormous straw hat. "When you eat it, it's like dying." Outsiders, he insisted, shouldn't even try it. "If you eat one," he told a visitor, "you will not be able to leave this place." If you think you've had a hotter chili pepper, you're wrong.
Around here, in the hills of northeastern India, it's called the "bhut jolokia" — the "ghost chili." Anyone who has tried it, they say, could end up an apparition.
"It is so hot you can't even imagine," said the farmer, Digonta Saikia, working in his fields in the midday sun, his face nearly invisible behind an enormous straw hat. "When you eat it, it's like dying." Outsiders, he insisted, shouldn't even try it. "If you eat one," he told a visitor, "you will not be able to leave this place." If you think you've had a hotter chili pepper, you're wrong.
The world should prepare itself.
Though scientific proof that the bhut jolokia got into the record books — it has more than 1,000,000 Scoville units, the scientific measurement of a chili's spiciness — So India is taking its chili to the outside world.
