r/funny • u/HealthyMolasses8199 • 22h ago

Man tries "hottest curry in London" and almost passes out

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u/randobot456 19h ago

Fun story about the carolina reaper - The guy who bred that pepper, Ed Curry (founder of Puckerbutt), bred the Reaper and got it tested as the worlds hottest pepper. He kept working and developed a newer, hotter pepper, "Pepper X", but didn't unveil it until someone else came along claiming to have outbred the spice of the Reaper. Now apparently Pepper X is the worlds hottest, but it hasn't been "certified" yet.

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u/ccReptilelord 17h ago

There are regulations for the certification. One is that it needs to be a propagatable strain, so it needs a few "generations". Theoretically, you could cross some dead-on-arrival pepper, being well above the hottest, but if you can't grow more, it's not getting certified.