Zowie! Teens guzzle hot sauce, end up in ER
In test of courage, eight German teens drink extreme chili sauce
BERLIN - Officials in Germany say eight teenagers were hospitalized after a test of courage in which they drank chili sauce more than 200 times hotter than typical Tabasco sauce.
The Red Cross in the southern city of Augsburg says that 10 boys, aged 13 and 14, drank the sauce Wednesday morning, apparently in school.
The German news agency DAPD quoted the Red Cross as saying the boys complained of feeling sick, and eight were taken to a hospital. They were to be kept in overnight for observation.
The Red Cross said that on the Scoville scale, which measures the hotness of sauce, the sauce measured 535,000 — compared to 2,500 for normal Tabasco sauce.
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1 comment:
Oh my gosh! I can't even handle tabasco sauce. What are these kids thinking! Next time they want to do something brave, they should go rescue a school of kids in a burning building. hehe
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