He had spittle on his shirt and seemed to be drooling out of every possible orifice from the neck up.” According to Fox, the principal explained to the parents this whole thing was part of the Carolina Reaper Challenge that was going around and that a student had brought a big old bag of them to school. “He looked like his dog had died,” wrote Fox, describing her son. Fox shared that she was called to her son’s school by the nurse, and that multiple students were crowded into the nurse’s office with horrible symptoms, including vomiting and painful, burning rashes caused by the peppers. Tonya Fox, a Scary Mommy commenter, recently shared the story of her 12-year-old’s experience with the reapers. Minutes later, kids were puking blood, and according to reports from middle school parents, ambulances were called to the scene because some kids were in such bad shape that they needed medical attention.Īt the time, I thought this was an isolated incident, but it turns out my town’s middle school was not the only one to be hit by this ridiculous (and downright dangerous) new trend. Someone had brought the peppers to school, and during recess, the kids - seemingly not knowing what the heck they were exactly - happily devoured them. Last year, at a middle school nearby, a group of kids apparently took the challenge. After all, YouTubers are basically celebrities to the tween/teen cohort. Not only do these videos have literally millions of views, but kids all over seem to be willing to take these YouTubers up on their challenge. Then, of course, these adorable YouTubers not only ask you to subscribe to their channel, but challenge you, too, to try the Carolina Reaper Challenge - filming yourself while doing it so that the whole world can partake in your mouth-and-stomach-on-fire misery.īut if you think that no one in their right mind would play along with this crap, that’s where you are dead wrong. Soon after, you get to watch them chug gallons of milk to ease the pain others just go ahead and vomit up the peppers (yes, onscreen, for all our viewing pleasure). Over the past year, YouTube has exploded with videos of people eating these peppers, then proceeding to jump around like idiots, screaming and crying because they ate the world’s hottest peppers.
EATING CALIFORNIA REAPER FULL
But we know YouTube is full of fools looking to make a million bucks off of doing totally inane things, so here were are. So, yeah, why in hell anyone would want to go near these hella spicy mofos is absolutely baffling. (By way of comparison, the more common habañero pepper is about 350,000 on the SHU, and the jalapeño that we all know and love measures a mere 8,000 SHUs.) And while the newly discovered “ Dragon’s Breath” pepper might have superseded that record with a reading of 2.48 million on the SHU scale, Carolina Reapers are still hot AF. The Guinness Book of World Records deemed Carolina Reapers the hottest peppers in the world in 2013, with an average hotness rate of 1,569,300 Scoville Heat Units (SHU), the unit used to measure the pungency of peppers. The mechanical thing of speed eating and trying to eat those as quickly as possible really is a matter of chewing dynamics and swallowing and putting your mind outside of what’s going on with your body,” Foster said.Just when you thought the world couldn’t possibly be going any more bonkers, enter the latest YouTube craze: the Carolina Reaper Challenge.
Competition wise it’s a whole different ball of wax. “When I’m consuming regularly, I’ll slice it up and add it to food, on top of a burger, in a salad, with steak, chicken wings, you name it, I’ll just eat a little piece throughout a meal. “Every time people ask me if it’s spicy after doing this for years and years, the answer is still a resounding yes,” he added.Īs far as the peppers go, Foster says eating them competitively is much different than consuming them regularly. San Diego native and hot sauce maker Greg Foster ate 10 of those peppers, considered to be the world’s hottest, in 33 seconds.įoster, who grows Carolina Reapers in his backyard, says the peppers are “one of the hottest things you can get.” ( NewsNation) - Only one man can lay claim to having eaten the most Carolina Reaper peppers in the shortest amount of time on record.
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