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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