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Posted by Clancy on 17/11/2007, 6:03 am
Link: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/articles/2007/08/01/1185647946289.html
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Extract from Brisbane Times Aug 1, 2007
'When you eat it, it's like dying'
Tim Sullivan | August 1, 2007 - 11:46AM
CHANGPOOL, India - The farmer, a quiet man with an easy smile, has spent a lifetime eating a chilli pepper with a strange name and a vicious bite. His mother stirred them into sauces. His wife puts them out for dinner raw, blood-red morsels of pain to be nibbled - carefully, very carefully - with whatever she's serving.
Around here, in the hills of northeastern India, it's called the "bhut jolokia" - the "ghost chilli." Anyone who has tried it, they say, could end up an apparition.
"It is so hot you can't even imagine," said the farmer, Digonta Saikia, working in his fields in the midday sun, his face nearly invisible behind an enormous straw hat. "When you eat it, it's like dying."
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