Posted on 03/23/2010 8:16:12 AM PDT by Pyro7480
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.
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.
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.
"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.
"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....
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Hot today, chile tomorrow....
I’d still like to try those, or something made from them. They can’t be all that much worse than some of the peppers my Carribean co-workers have brought in - which were so hot they made my eyes water, my head sweat, my face turn an odd color, and my stomach hurt. And I like hot stuff.
Weapons of @ss destruction. :)
Ping.
Wow, I’d rather have tear gas!
Although the pepper would probably provide both of those as well...
Don’t be so sure. I’ve seen Youtube videos of people who swore they ate jalapenos like candy try one of those things. The results weren’t pretty.
Although...how do you beat crippling summer heat by eating a pepper that’s pretty much like sticking your face into a H-bomb explosion? Everything else feels nice and cool afterward?
}:-)4
Wonder if they’ll be selling this weapon at Taco Bell?
Thanks for posting this.
Not pretty, indeed! :-/
I have seen him eat a lot of crazy stuff on this show, but I swear it looked like this pepper was going to make him have a heart attack!
Where can I get some seeds?!?!?!?!?!....................
They are three times as hot as a scotch bonnet and four times as hot as a habenero, so I guess it is relative. At what point does it matter? My first time ever eating a habenero I threw five of the bad boys in my dish, I can’t imagine anything hotter however they take a few minutes to rev up in heat everything I have seen on the ghost chili suggests the heat is nearly instantaneous.
This is a cure for stomach ailments? I’m thinking my stomach would disagree. Violently.
Did you see the episode where he ate ghost chili hot wings? It is the only time in that entire show where I saw him give up after one bite.
I gots water hose...........
No! I haven’t seen that...WOW.
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