This Girl Tried The Hottest Pepper In The World
Jaws dropped as a young girl amazed the world in a new video when she tried the hottest pepper in the world.
Kimberly Truelove, 11, was dared to eat the Carolina Reaper peppers by her dad. And she totally nailed it — gagging and crying like any good chili enthusiast would.
The Carolina Reaper is the hottest pepper in the world, according to Guinness World Records. We say best as measured by a muscle thermometer and ground, burning peppers.
Yep, it’s that bad. If you’re scared of spicy foods, stay away from spicy peppers. The heat you get from an ordinary pepper is a warm round of the feeling the one you eat the hottest peppers can give you. It’s simply too intense. So dangerous, in fact, that it will cause serious burns and over-burning.
The Carolina Reaper pepper has a name that’s hard to pronounce — like a city you live in where the rest of the city hates you and doesn’t love you anyway. Before I start pouring my heart out for you Carolina Reapers, please pause and take a sip of water. After all, it’s summer. You’re cooling off, catching a catfish or maybe just enjoying the magic of taking a bus ride.
The Carolina Reaper is so extreme, in fact, that it’s only being grown in two places: Georgia and Kentucky. You know, the place where your Dad went to college. They’re only growing a little over one million of them, and their hottest kettles will make this girl gasp in pain for days.
There are different temps in a pepper. They range from mild to super-hot, but the Carolina Reaper needs to get hotter to be a threat to humans. This doesn’t mean, however, that you should dump your honey out into the hallway for her to taste.
Forget that luscious roast chicken. I think I’m more of a saucy Shredded Delmonico steak guy, but my adventurous spirit may eventually lead me to rip the skin off of that hot sauce-stuffed burger when I’m in a firefight with a badder enemy — such as the FLYING CAULIFLOWER.
Our military is so good at conducting searches, finding treasure and catching bad guys, but they just aren’t as good at surviving them. There are plenty of people (especially young kids) who can get seriously, horribly burnt when caught in a heat attack from a heat-seeking sniper. Because of our military’s focus on finding and killing bad guys, rather than finding and staving off the physical damage that their enemies can cause, we’re not able to warn them about being burned from the inside out.
But then again, they don’t have the big bad scary shapely warrior where it hurts.
And right now, you are.
We do have warnings, though, especially for kids. There are people out there — like Gary Ramsey, a good old American boy from Tampa, Florida — who create award-winning hot peppers specifically for children. These are made of different kinds of scented oils to give the kids a better, blunter view of life. These weren’t the kind of pepper you’d eat, however, because they’re so, so hot.
Sometimes, the best thing for the child is to throw them in a fire, like a ninja or something. When the burn happens, they cry out for crayons or pads to stem the pain. Only, their parent doesn’t know if they could run off once they have the bite, so they get eaten. Parents, look it up. It’s on the Internet.
We’ve all been burned once or twice, but the heat coming out of the most hot peppers comes with a lifetime of healing. But most people don’t have the right health care when they run into this problem. If you need help, the best place to go is the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, the best place to walk into when faced with an epiphanic injury. It’s the one center in the world that can get you out of a bad burn. And most of us can’t afford to go there or if we do, it’s often running out of beds.
That’s why we have the Military and Veterans’ Medical Insurance Program.
That said, we should also say that this camera crew won’t rescue you from burning to death. So, please stay put, or you could hurt yourself. Your cell phones will probably explode and burn your fingers to a crisp.
