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Officials say eight teens were hospitalized after drinking the hot sauce. The Red Cross in Augsburg, a city in southern Germany, told the Associated Press that 10 boys, ages 13 and 14, drank the sauce Wednesday morning in school. Officials say it was a "test of courage."
The Red Cross told the German news agency DAPD that the boys felt sick and eight were taken to the hospital and were to stay overnight, the AP reported.
The sauce the teens ingested measured 535,000 units on the Scoville scale, the scale that determines hotness in chili peppers. Tabasco sauce measures 2,500.
1-22-2010 @6:14PM CP said... Why would you accompany this article with a picture of Sriracha sauce? It's misleading - my immediate assumption was that the boys had consumed my favorite, not-nearly-as-hot "rooster sauce". I'm betting more than a few readers will walk away with the same assumption.
Also, it's "Tabasco".
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1-23-2010 @6:30AM Merle T Cornpone said... Well, the intellectually challenged can think of unique ways to injure themselves. Hot sauce, no matter what the pepper type used is for mixing with food, not direct consumption. Sauces based on very hot peppers, like habanero peppers are very hot, especially to persons raised eating a bland diet. The actual hotness of a pepper is rated in scovilles, with most sauces in the 2000 to 4000 scoville level. Habanero peppers are about 400,000 scovilles.
When used to enhance the flavor of food, pepper sauces can be very tasty. But, just as a hammer can be a useful tool, it can hurt you if you misuse it.
1-23-2010 @10:26AM Inkling said... I can't figure out why they used a picture of Rooster Sauce either. It's not nearly as hot as Sambala Oleck. Anybody with half a brain would know not to do something like that, but seeing that they were teens it is easy to understand since most don't operate with a full deck, especially not teen boys. They don't start realizing consequences until they are well into their twenties. I find it amusing they don't mention the brand of hot sauce.
1-23-2010 @10:26AM Inkling said... I guess it was Sriracha Chili Sauce as it showed a picture of the bottle in a different link. In any case, chili sauce is meant to add spice not be drunk as a beverage. Is THIS what kids learn to do in school? I'm glad mine doesn't go to a public school. I can imagine the stuff that goes on in American High Schools is three times worse.
1-23-2010 @10:28AM barbara said... iam so glad you posted that comment. i also that it was my favorite sriracha sauce. this is very misleading. what kind was it, do you know? yea that makes me mad.....
1-23-2010 @12:42PM Kel said... @Tim...wow you have some major anger issues there .Are you having a bad life or something? What did the girlfriend (or boyfriend) dump you? Mom raised the room and board fees for living in her cellar again?
1-23-2010 @7:21AM upurs said... things like this give our "over bearing governments" fuel to create more "police tactics" for more control of the masses...and not to mention possibly,putting an age limit on purchasing the stuff...hahaha...i know i hate what wmerica has become because of these thieves that run this country..!
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1-23-2010 @9:14AM gerald said... Gimpy is correct. When our Gov't bans hot sauces it will be for our own good. Hopefully they will outlaw teabags also. I have not heard on the news of this practice of knocking one's self unconcious w/teabags, but if it is indeed an epidemic of self-abuse it should be addressed by our elected officials IMMEDIATELY.
1-24-2010 @7:06PM Brian said... BWAHAH I agree with the previous two repliers to this comment. This individual is absurd. The article definitely states with distinction that these guys were from southern GERMANY. And it was completely their own idiocy, not that of the govt's nor of anything that would be able to control the masses.
Clearly, you saw this as a prompt for you to use a certain sort of language that "invigorates passion." But when it's steriotypical jargon used in a confusing string of points that don't support any point you're trying to make, we see it as junk.
Thieves...? Who be stealing what here? Ehe. I see what you're trying to say, but hot sause is by no perceptible means a possible fear-inducing agent that could be manipulated by the government.
1-23-2010 @7:47AM Jusbnfrank said... It doesn't say the type of hot sauce they drank, or the amount. I will say this, had they have eaten a bowl of my five alarm chili, they would no longer be with us. The habenero's alone would have killed them, and that is just one of five that I use. Germans are the "Super-race", unless we are talking chili. Went to the hospital, give me a break.
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1-23-2010 @10:42AM MAGUS47 said... YEAH NOT LIKE THE INTELLIGENT TEENS IN MY DAY THAT JUST DROPPED ACID OR MY PARENTS THAT ATE GOLDFISH OR THEIR PARENTS THAT DANCED TILL THEY FELL OVER. YEAH TODAYS TEENS ARE MUCH DUMBER THAN WE WERE.
1-23-2010 @1:52PM shelulu said... I want your recipe!
And, regarding some of the other comments... bottom line (as is always the case): the parents failed these kids. When parents continually fail their kids, the government has to step in because
there's nobody else to take responsibility. That's why there are child protective agencies and annoying "laws". Oh - and it has nothing whatsoever to do with the public school system. It's the PARENTS.
1-23-2010 @8:06AM c said... Teens today are pure idiots!
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1-23-2010 @11:16AM Hollie said... haha ur soooo funny..... not!!!! think b4 u stereotype!!!!
1-23-2010 @1:07PM Elle said... Your statement is sooooo intelligent.
There are responsible and smart teenagers in the world, just like there are stupid and reckless adults. Please try to contribute something worthy of reading next time you post.
1-23-2010 @8:09AM John F. C. Taylor said... Who cares what type of hot sauce it was? At 535K s.u.'s it is one of the hottest sauces around. I think they featured one or more 500K + hot sauces on Man vs Food. If he had it with food, you can imagine the distress these teens were in just drinking it by itself.
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1-23-2010 @9:41AM JIMMY said... Richman on man versus food usually loses when he does the super hot food challenges.I bet these dumb kids got the idea from the show.Id pay to watch them flop on the floor like a fish.Like the guy in dumb and dumber who ate the pepper.
1-23-2010 @8:15AM Dave Hughes said... Gee....you'd think that a 'Food Editor' would (or at least, should) know how to spell TABASCO.
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1-23-2010 @9:10AM jimbo said... did his parents teach him STUPID..or was he born that way> Idiot
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