If competitive eating shows on TV have taught me anything, it’s that ghost peppers are a food you don’t want to mess with. But somehow, 40 middle school students in West Milton, Ohio were treated by ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF / CBS NEWS) -- A Bay Area man who ate one of the world's hottest peppers landed himself in the hospital with a 1-inch hole in his esophagus that nearly killed him. The ...

Just a few bites of one of the world’s hottest peppers has been known to send tasters to the hospital. But one competitive eater recently chomped his way to infamy by consuming 13 esophagus-burning, ...

The Journal of Emergency Medicine reports the unusual case of a man who tore a hole in his esophagus after eating ghost peppers as part of a contest. A 47-year-old man went to the emergency department ...

Daredevil eaters be warned, chowing down on ghost peppers can be potentially dangerous. A 47-year-old male, who made his way to the hospital following a violent bout of vomitting and retching, ...

The Dunkin' Spicy Ghost Pepper Donut is a two-faced, strawberry-frosted pastry imp that will stab your tongue in the back with a pitchfork made of cayenne pepper. It will be one of two things for most ...

A Canadian man, Mike Jack, set a Guinness World Record by eating 50 Bhut Jolokia chillies in just under 15 minutes.

Well, eating one of the world’s hottest chilis is one way to really spice up some regular choir music. YouTube star, Danish musician and self-proclaimed “chili enthusiast” Chili Klaus goes around the ...

Things calmed down a bit after this morning’s monkey moshpit, praise the lord, but only momentarily. It seems all that early-morning activity left the MS Mansion Monkeys with quite the ravenous ...

(NEWSER) – The ghost pepper is one of the world's hottest peppers, with a Scoville rating of more than a million. So it might follow that you shouldn't ingest it in more than tiny quantities. And yet, ...

The ghost pepper is one of the world's hottest peppers, with a Scoville rating of more than a million. So it might follow that you shouldn't ingest it in more than tiny quantities. And yet, the ...