Topic: Scotch Bonnet

John Dvorak presents a "Tip of the Day" featuring Tabasco's Scorpion Pepper Sauce. Found in an obscure Mexican mercado, the sauce is significantly hotter than standard Tabasco and features a black label. Dvorak recommends it for "hot pepper loving friends," noting it is manufactured in Louisiana using one of the world's hottest pepper varieties.

A story from Rio de Janeiro involves a "pepper-eating challenge" between two journalists at a barbecue restaurant. After the speaker swallowed several hot peppers with no reaction, the competing journalist attempted to do the same but turned "beet red" and suffered physically because he had previously been faking eating them.