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The spiciness comes from the potent “ghost pepper”, cultivated in northeastern India, where it's known as bhut jolokia.

His six spice levels, though exactingly prepared, are mostly stunts to attract the kind of knuckleheads who think ingesting Bhut jolokia and Carolina Reapers — two of the hottest peppers on Earth — is somehow a sign of manhood.

The cause of my distress was Bhut jolokia, or ghost pepper, a chile that can be three to 1o times hotter than a habanero.

As a point of reference, a Carolina Reaper is twice as hot as the Bhut jolokia, which basically places the former in the same category as pepper spray, and last time I checked, pepper spray is still used as a weapon.

The couple were soon identified as Bhut' Hector and Nonhlanhla.