Tribal People Try Spicy Food Challenges

Every time the tribe has tasted spicy food challenges: 8 videos of first impressions from villagers in rural Punjab, Pakistan, usually International food they have never seen before.

Also covers: spicy challenge, hot sauce, carolina reaper, ghost pepper, hottest, one chip, spiciest, chili challenge, wasabi, hot ones

What it is

Spice challenges: Carolina Reaper chips, Buldak 3x fire noodles, Da Bomb hot sauce, ghost pepper wings. The genre assumes the taster will suffer; the tribe eat raw green chillies with lunch, which changes the odds.

What to watch for

They handle heat better than most, but extract-based heat is different from chilli heat — it is chemical, sharp and it lingers — and the strongest sauces get to everyone eventually. The interest is watching people who are not scared of chilli meet something that is genuinely hotter.

The village comparison

Green chillies are eaten raw with meals and red chilli powder goes in most dishes, so a 'spicy' challenge starts from a high baseline. Milk and yogurt are the remedies reached for.

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