Ghost Peppers Hot Hot Hot
Ben Vitale
Some patrons at a local Spanish restaurant, were amazed that I
was able to eat a "Ghost Pepper Burrito” The
only thing hotter than a ghost pepper is a Propane Torch! LOL! Just for fun, I
told the customers that the older I get, the hotter I like my food! This is
true! I told them that I was an Italian, who is slowly turning Spanish! I got
lots of laughs! LOL!
The peppers in the photo above were grown by my wife with her little hands; I have no idea what kind of peppers they are. A ghost pepper looks similar to these peppers but is usually a lot thinner.
I was fascinated with the fact that fast food businesses, and
others in the food industry have recently been making ghost pepper burritos
available to the general public. Hummm… I asked myself; could I survive eating
one of those ghost pepper burritos? The New York Post reports: that the Ghost
Pepper is 107 to 417 times hotter than a jalapeño and 10 times hotter than a habanero
pepper. Wikipedia reports that In 2007, Guinness World Records certified that
the ghost pepper was the world's hottest chili pepper; 400 times hotter than Tabasco sauce.
Please permit me to give you some background material that
will help you to understand my lifelong quest to conquer the art of eating hot
food. Many decades ago, my brother-in-law Jack Mistler and his friend Joe
Mendoza, conspired against me in an attempt to embarrass me into eating one of
the hot peppers that are sent to Joe, every year, by his mother that lives in
Mexico. One day I succumbed to the pressure and actually took a bite out of one
of Joe’s hot peppers; I thought I was going to die! LOL! : - ((
I went to Atlantic City, NJ, and passed many Spanish
Restaurants. My fascination with hot peppers prompted me to ask the local
Spanish residents, questions about ghost peppers. I asked one young Hispanic
lady if she liked ghost peppers… She quickly took a defensive position by displaying
both of her palms from the left side of her body. While looking at me over her
left shoulder she said, I can’t eat those peppers! Another young lady asked her boyfriend to
answer my question about ghost peppers, because he was a Chef! He replied… I
thought they were illegal in the United States! LOL! Wow! These peppers must
really be hot!
And now comes the test that I have been working toward for a
lifetime; I will attempt to eat a burrito that contains the "king of hot
peppers;" the ghost pepper. I took my first bite and I immediately realized that
the ghost pepper burrito was really hot… I was now in the “big league” of
culinary pepper consumption! LOL! I took my second bite and then I realized
that I actually liked the very hot ghost pepper burrito! Wow! I really liked
eating the “hot” burrito! LOL!
So… I actually survived eating what is known to be the
hottest pepper in the world! An Italian eating a hot ghost Pepper burrito that
even some Spanish people refuse to eat! So… I am very proud of myself surviving
the consumption of a ghost pepper. Yesss… An Italian, who was slowly turning
Spanish, has finally arrived! LOL! I feel like I have just climbed Mount
Everest! LOL! : - ))
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