][1]Ah, the world’s hottest chilli story is always a favourite, not just with the blog but also with newspaper editors.
The Telegraph has picked up on the tale of a Grantham chilli grower whose Infinity chilli has topped 1.7 million on the Scoville scale, the unit used to measure the heat of spices.
The paper notes that up until now Grantham was most famous as being the birthplace of Margaret Thatcher. You can do your own gags about breathing fire.
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