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, ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (KRON)-Imagine eating something so hot that it tears a hole in your esophagus and have to spend more than three weeks in the hospital. That is exactly what recently happened to one ...

The ghost pepper is also known as "bhut jolokia", one of the hottest chili peppers worldwide, with a measured heat of over 1 million Scoville heat units (SHU), on the heat index designed to establish ...

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, ...

Competitive eating is not a team effort. Instead, its very methodof using willpower to gorge beyond all bounds of satisfaction, comfort and healthmakes it an entirely selfish activity, an ultimately ...

For the adventurous (and slightly masochistic) eater, ghost peppers — the red hot chili that’s been likened to one of satan’s “prolapsed organs” in the looks department — are high on the list when it ...

The world record holder for the most Ghost peppers eaten has done it again! And this time Gregory Foster did it faster than before after eating 17 of them in a minute, according to Guinness World ...

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 ...

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 man who entered a ghost pepper-eating contest landed himself in the hospital with a 1-inch hole in his esophagus – a condition that can be fatal – according to a new report. The ghost pepper, also ...