NMSU prof finds hottest chile pepper on record

The Guinness Book of
Records agreed, confirming recently that Bosland, a regents professor
at New Mexico State University, had discovered the world's hottest
chile pepper, Bhut Jolokia, a naturally occurring hybrid native to the
Assam region of northeastern India.

The name translates as ghost chile, Bosland said.

"We're
not sure why they call it that, but I think it's because the chile is
so hot, you give up the ghost when you eat it," he said.

Bhut
Jolokia comes in at 1,001,304 Scoville heat units, a measure of hotness
for a chile. It's nearly twice as hot as Red Savina, the variety it
replaces as the hottest.

By comparison, a New Mexico green chile contains about 1,500 Scoville units; an average jalapeño measures about 10,000.

i dread to think aboot the morning after..............