"drinking chile sauce" news and stories

A group of German teenagers got more than they bargained for after drinking chili sauce more than 200 times hotter than normal Tabasco sauce, the Associated Press reported.

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.