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Woman attempts to break Guinness record by eating ghost chilis

An Indian woman has set her sights and taste buds on breaking the Guinness record for eating the most hot peppers. And not just any hot peppers. Anandita Dutta Tamuly plans to eat as many Bhut Jolokia, or ghost chilis, as she can.

Tamuly hails from the state of Assam, where the pepper occurs as a natural hybrid. She seems pretty confident that she can scarf a record-smashing amount of what Guinness recently named the world's hottest chili pepper. On Indian television she recently chowed down on 60 of the fiery peppers in two minutes. Tamuly became a fan of the ghost chili when her mother smeared some chili paste on her tongue to cure a childhood infection.

The current record is held by Anita Crafford who consumed eight peppers in a minute. They weren't ghost peppers though, far from it. They were jalapeños, which are about one one-hundreth as hot as the dreaded Bhut Jolokia. Sheesh, what a wimp!

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Filed under: Food Oddities, Ingredients
Tags: Anita Crafford, AnitaCrafford, asia, Bhut Jolokia, BhutJolokia, chili pepper, chili peppers, ChiliPepper, ChiliPeppers, ghost chili, GhostChili, Guinness record, GuinnessRecord, hot pepper, HotPepper, jalapeƱos, oddities, pepper, peppers, spices

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Jessica

2-28-2007 @10:11AM Jessica said... Then hasn't Ms. Tamuly already won? I know Guinness has weird rules about approving records, but if it was filmed for tv...?
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calamari

2-28-2007 @10:18AM calamari said... According to Yahoo! News, she was filmed eating 60 peppers in India, but on Sunday (2/25) she was going to London to set the world record.
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Foodie Bride

2-28-2007 @11:18AM Foodie Bride said... That's gonna hurt for *days*
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Richard Bacchus

3-05-2007 @4:04PM Richard Bacchus said... Beautiful and Crazy, I'm in Love.
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Leena

3-20-2007 @3:14PM Leena said... Werd, Richard. I wish more men thought like you, maybe I wouldn't be alone snarfing down wasabi peas, kimchi, and anything that can be doused in rooster sauce whilst watching Food TV or reading motorcycle mags on Friday nights ;P
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