I love spicy foods and I have a fairly high tolerance for the heat. I have eaten foods with ghost peppers and carolina reapers in it that have barely scathed me, so I thought I would put that tolerance to the ultimate test and eat the hottest pepper in the world, registering at 2.2 million on the scoville scale.

Feeling brave? https://amzn.to/35N89Ox

I was humbled that day. The heat was bad enough on its own, it was the nausea that suddenly came out of nowhere that tripled the horribleness of the experience, the fear of having it come back up and starting the process all over again.

Image of Carolina Reaper taken from https://www.flickr.com/photos/thechililife/23971720178 By TheChili.Life at Flickr.com, CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/