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The World Has a New Hottest Chili Pepper

Pepper X is the latest from the creator of the Carolina Reaper

(Newser) - The Carolina Reaper has been dethroned as the world's hottest pepper after 10 years by the man who created it. The Guinness Book of World Records says the new hottest pepper is the Pepper X, grown by South Carolina pepper expert Ed Currie. Guinness says that in lab tests,...

Man Stirs Chili, Ends Up in Hospital

The early morning attack occurred in Detroit

(Newser) - If "never stir another man's chili" isn't already a saying, maybe it should be. Adhering to it would have spared a 30-year-old Detroit man a trip to the hospital with stab wounds. About 5am Friday, the Detroit News reports, a 26-year-old man allegedly bit and stabbed the...

Would-Be Robber Thwarted With Chili Sauce

Treated for minor burns after incident

(Newser) - Unlikely thief-thwarting device of the day: chili. Police say a 24-year-old man tried to push two workers aside at a chicken restaurant in Sydney, Australia, last night so he could get to the cash register. But a female employee "responded with a bucket of chili over his face,...

Chilis May Lower Blood Pressure

Spicy food could counter hypertension: Study

(Newser) - Good news for spicy food lovers: Eating chili peppers may lower blood pressure over the long term. A new study, carried out on rats, is the first to establish a link between long-term ingestion of capsaicin, the ingredient that makes chilis spicy, and lowered blood pressure in animals predisposed to...

Wendy's Chili Finger Lady: 'I Cooked It'

Anna Ayala is out of prison, barred from chain for life

(Newser) - Anna Ayala, the woman who was sent to prison for pretending she’d gotten a severed finger in her Wendy’s chili, has finally come clean. “I cooked it,” she tells CBS-5 when pressed on how she carried out her crime. After keeping the finger in her freezer...

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