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| It's Gonna be Chili Today and Hot Tomale |
| 2010-03-23 |
| GAUHATI, India (AP) - The Indian military has a new weapon against terrorism: the world's hottest chili. After conducting tests, the military has decided to use the thumb-sized "bhut jolokia," or "ghost chili," to make tear gas-like hand grenades to immobilize suspects, defense officials said Tuesday. I grew some. Made some 5 gallons of Chili with one. Jeebus! I burned for a week! The bhut jolokia was accepted by Guinness World Records in 2007 as the world's spiciest chili. It is grown and eaten in India's northeast for its taste, as a cure for stomach troubles and a way to fight the crippling summer heat. If you eat some of one you will sweat gallons. It has more than 1,000,000 Scoville units, the scientific measurement of a chili's spiciness. Classic Tabasco sauce ranges from 2,500 to 5,000 Scoville units, while jalapeno peppers measure anywhere from 2,500 to 8,000. It's hotter than Satan's Toejam. "The chili grenade has been found fit for use after trials in Indian defense laboratories, a fact confirmed by scientists at the Defense Research and Development Organization," Col. R. Kalia, a defense spokesman in the northeastern state of Assam, told The Associated Press. The chili I made turned out to be a grenade, all right. A Gut Grenade. I won't go into details. "This is definitely going to be an effective nontoxic weapon because its pungent smell can choke terrorists and force them out of their hide-outs," R. B. Srivastava, the director of the Life Sciences Department at the New Delhi headquarters of the DRDO said. It'll probably make them want to crawl 10 miles over broken glass to get to some icewater. Srivastava, who led a defense research laboratory in Assam, said trials are also on to produce bhut jolokia-based aerosol sprays to be used by women against attackers and for the police to control and disperse mobs. |
| Posted by:Deacon Blues |
| #9 Many years ago, I had a Mexican-American friend whose father made hot sauces strictly for hot pepper aficionados. At seven kinds of prices. He showed me some small, berry-like white peppers about the size of a pea. His father had smuggled them North, not because they were illegal, but because they were unclassified, unknown to botanists. So they were his "secret weapon", worth a fortune in a hot sauce. Dried and very finely ground, about one of these in a gallon of sauce, and a few drops would be more than even most hot pepper eaters could tolerate. He said they were discovered by accident, when his father's jack burro had nibbled a few and died, rather unpleasantly. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-03-23 20:15 |
| #8 For some mysterious reason I'm in the mood for TACO BELL, or Chinese??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-03-23 19:15 |
| #7 This could become a new arms race. If the Nepalis ever start weaponizing their version of curry powder, Mama look out! |
| Posted by: Mike 2010-03-23 18:16 |
| #6 In Buffalo I learnt that the best defence against capsicums is milk. Ordinary capsicums, that is, not the kind mentioned in the article. |
| Posted by: trailing wife on the other computer 2010-03-23 18:10 |
| #5 :) Hi ya Deacon! I cut the ones you sent into itsy bitsy teenyy weeny little crazed Bikini. I used 1 portion (less than a milligram) in a smallish stew. The stew is still perfectly preserved in the backyard. :) Yes. I wore gloves and had milk handy. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2010-03-23 17:25 |
| #4 Actually water doesn't help. You need to immediately suck on a lemon or lime or drink lots of lemonade. And some bicarbonate of soda. |
| Posted by: Mike Hunt 2010-03-23 16:52 |
| #3 I dount he has intestines at all if he ate all that chili |
| Posted by: chris 2010-03-23 15:12 |
| #2 The chili I made turned out to be a grenade, all right. A Gut Grenade. I won't go into details. But I rather imagine you haven't any intestinal parasites any more... ;-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife on the other computer 2010-03-23 14:48 |
| #1 that guy on Man vs. Food ate some hot wings with a sauce made with these things, it blistered his face on the first bite! |
| Posted by: chris 2010-03-23 13:06 |