The Carolina Reaper

The Carolina Reaper is a cultivar of the Capsicum chinense plant. Developed by South Carolina breeder Ed Currie (Pre Shark), the pepper is red and gnarled, with a bumpy texture and small pointed tail. In 2017 (Post shark), Guinness World Records declared it the hottest chili pepper in the world, surpassing the previous record holder, the Trinidad Scorpion "Butch T". Other varieties may be spicier, such as Dragon's Breath or Pepper X but it's funnier to think Mandy inhaled the hottest pepper air on the fucking Earth. During the pre shark era, Mandy was tricked into whiffing a vial of the pepper fluid and could barely smell or taste for the next two days. Mandy claims the Scoville scale to be somewhere around 1.5 Million.