Chili Sauce Lands German Teens in Hospital

(AP)  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 normal.

The Red Cross in the southern city of Augsburg says that 10 boys, aged 13 and 14, year 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.

[rwsmith29456]

When I liked spicy foods there was a local reastaurant that served X, XX, XXX AND XXXX Hot sauce. I was stupid enough once to try the XXXX sauce. One bite and I drank up all the beer in the place. I can't remember it tasting good, but I sure remember the heat. I much prefer jalopenos for flavor.

[dnamj]

Capsaicin Extract. The bane of good hot sauce. Like Dave's insanity sauce, which adds the extract just to be hot, but it isn't true to the taste of any pepper.

The title is funny though, what's "normal" hot sauce in Germany anyway?

[Ruckweiler]

Probably Habanero sauce. Germans don't normally eat spicy food. I'm surprised that these kids didn't up and die. Food-1 Kids-0.

[Henri_Rochard]

Tabasco is for wienies.

I prefer Sriracha Hot Chili Sauce.

[BuddyBeanbags]

LOL, sounds a lot like the jalapeno juice drinking contests we had when I was in the army at Ft. Hood, Texas. Young and dumb.

[AtLasOn1Kl733]

What's the sauce called, "The German Tickler?"

[Berkeley-SkirtLifter]

Reichstag Fire Sauce"

[retiredgustav]

Here in Texas that stuff would be labeled mild!

[AtLasOn1Kl733]

not even close to mild but a tickler.

[nomealaska]

Texas, the ridiculously small state with a really big a$$. Thanks for Bush! Any before you thank me for Palin, thank you for luring her out of Alaska for us. Sarah would make a wonderful governor (for Texas).

[I_am_me1953]

Boys will be boys.

Such silly boys.

[jxknowles]

Boy vs food. Food wins again.