The King Is Dead . . .
Long Live The King.
It was nice to sleep in and not have to travel down to Clear Lake, but then there’s tomorrow.
The weather really cooled off today, with a high of 77 and going down to 56 tonight. And 79/59 tomorrow. Very Nice.
I was reading an article this morning about a new hot pepper, hotter even than fabled Carolina Reaper.
It’s called Dragon’s Breath, and it was developed by a guy in England not to eat, but to be used as topical anesthetic for people who are allergic to regular anesthetics.
And at almost 2.5 million Scoville units, it’s almost a million units more than the Carolina Reaper.
Once the Ghost Pepper became the first pepper to cross the 1 million unit line, the newer peppers, i.e. 7 Pot, the Scorpions, the Reaper, etc., all crept up a couple of hundred thousand units at a time.
Until the Dragon’s Breath, that is.
But before I could even finish researching the new king, the Dragon’s Breath, a new hotter king came along, the Pepper X.
And the old king was deposed with another large jump, all the way up to almost 3.25 million Scoville units.
These peppers are in a range that they can kill people, and have. Ruptured esophagi, anaphylactic shock, suffocation, etc. But if you want to try some of these peppers, at your own risk of course, check out the The iBurn Store here in Houston
Although I’ve got some Trinidad Moruga Scorpion pepper flakes, recently the 3rd hottest, and just used them the other day at the Asian BBQ & Grill, I’ve never tried the Carolina Reaper, and I probably won’t. And that goes for the Dragon’s Breath and Pepper X as well.
A man’s got to know his limitations.
The Word of the Day is: Tendentious
Thought for the Day:
I’m a secondhand vegetarian. Cows eat grass. I eat cows.
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