The American Ed Currie bred “Pepper X”, by far the hottest chili in the world. The question: Why does someone experience unbearable pain when eating? Currie has the answer to that – and a few tips, for example: no milk!
It’s this lout’s smile that immediately makes Ed Currie come across as likeable. Only ten-year-olds can usually manage this facial expression of malicious anticipation in this perfect execution when they know that they are going to really throw a punch at their younger siblings or best friends. But Currie is 60 years old and doesn’t want to hurt anyone. People who eat what Currie has bred do so voluntarily – usually for the first and often for the last time: “Pepper hottest chili in the world. For comparison: chili for Tabasco sauce measures just 50,000 heat units; almost a joke against the inferno of the yellow-green, rather shriveled growth.