SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF / CBS NEWS) -- A Bay Area man who ate one of the world's hottest peppers landed himself in the hospital with a 1-inch hole in his esophagus that nearly killed him. The ...

If competitive eating shows on TV have taught me anything, it’s that ghost peppers are a food you don’t want to mess with. But somehow, 40 middle school students in West Milton, Ohio were treated by ...

The Journal of Emergency Medicine reports the unusual case of a man who tore a hole in his esophagus after eating ghost peppers as part of a contest. A 47-year-old man went to the emergency department ...

I think most of us would admit that we made bad decisions when we were adolescents. When I was in middle school, that meant trying and failing utterly to make my hair mimic “The Rachel.” But ...

Just a few bites of one of the world’s hottest peppers has been known to send tasters to the hospital. But one competitive eater recently chomped his way to infamy by consuming 13 esophagus-burning, ...

This week, a video of a kid swallowing a ghost pepper (and promptly screaming his face off) has gone viral, garnering almost 1.5 million views in the space of a few days. If the video teaches us ...

Daredevil eaters be warned, chowing down on ghost peppers can be potentially dangerous. A 47-year-old male, who made his way to the hospital following a violent bout of vomitting and retching, ...

It’s a tale of fire and ice-- cream. The Ice Cream Shop in Rehobeth Beach, Delaware is heating up summer with its Ghost Pepper Ice Cream, a dessert so hot that customers have to sign a waiver just to ...

The grand tradition of eating spicy and insane things while on camera always leads inevitably to the Ghost Pepper, the world’s spiciest chili. Apparently this fiery pepper rates at over one million ...