hot!
By atramesil
@atramesil (685)
United States
May 24, 2007 6:28pm CST
Get this, my crazy 11 year old nephew can eat a habanero pepper. Now the interesting thing about it is that he can do it without screaming, tearing up in the eyes or otherwise crying for relief. My brother who is an afficianado of all things hot (He drinks the salsa at Mexican restaurants and then asks the waiter to bring him something hot), well he can't even do that. He eats the peppers, but he takes a small bite out of the tip of them and then regards them respectfully for a while before he eats some more of them. So should I enter the kid in the world record book, or do you guys think that his heat receptors in his mouth have sriveled up?
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@gizmo528 (731)
• United States
25 May 07
Wow, that is interesting. I thought that was the hottest pepper around. I've heard about other animals eating them and I know that our parrot loves them. I'm think he probably doesn't even taste them anymore. You can try to get him in the book. Maybe they have an opening for someone who can eat the most peppers or the hotest ones. You'll have to look it up.
@atramesil (685)
• United States
28 May 07
As far as I know there is actually one pepper that is hotter, but not by much. My younger brother got the bright idea to put some habenaros into a lasgna he was making. Once he started cuttinh them up he and his wife had to leave the house because their eyes startinbg burning. He said that for several days afterwards when he put his contact lenses in his eyes stung.
@atramesil (685)
• United States
28 May 07
Actually, I have a new theory that his ADHD meds are interfering with his heat receptors.
