Before trying to set a Guinness World Record, Mike Jack set up a picture frame featuring two photos on a table at a brewery in London, Ont.
Around 2015, Mucho Burrito, a Canadian chain of Mexican restaurants, began offering a hot sauce made from ghost peppers. After he’d gotten used to that hot sauce later that year, Jack learned about Ed Currie, the creator of the Carolina Reaper. Jack ordered hot sauces from Currie’s business, the PuckerButt Pepper Company. Again, dabs of hot sauce turned to splashes, which became pools.
Then, around 2017, a friend familiar with Jack’s affinity for the hottest of hot sauces told him that people were eating chile peppers on YouTube as a sort of internet spectacle. He thought Jack should give it a try. Jack did, eating his first Carolina reaper. It was hot, to be sure, but Jack didn’t think it was that hot.Article content
Mike Jack set a Guinness World Record by eating 50 California Reaper peppers in six minutes and 49 seconds. The peppers are known as the world’s hottest.Seeking ever higher mountains to summit, Jack started looking into Guinness World Records related to eating hot peppers. He discovered that most of them centred on how fast someone could consume small numbers of them.
Last year, Jack set his sights on something more ambitious. He’d beaten Guinness World Records centred on eating as many of a certain kind of pepper in a short period of time, like when he ate the most Bhut Jolokia peppers in both one- and two-minute time limits.
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