Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Nampa Farmers Market has been around for more than 30 years and for the second time they hosted a hot pepper eating contest.

NAMPA, Idaho — The Nampa Farmers Market held a hot pepper eating contest on Saturday, where 14 brave contestants ate some of the world's hottest peppers for a chance to win a $300 cash prize. Peppers ...

The Carolina reaper — with its fiery red color and gnarly, bumpy skin — measures in at up to two million Scoville heat units. That means the reaper is 200 times hotter than a jalapeno. These peppers ...

Competitive eating is not a team effort. Instead, its very methodof using willpower to gorge beyond all bounds of satisfaction, comfort and healthmakes it an entirely selfish activity, an ultimately ...

EASTON, Pa. – Heritage and heat will take center stage at the Easton Farmers’ Market during the next two weekends as the market celebrates Hispanic Cultural Day (Sept. 16) and presents its annual Hot ...

The Paddy Wagon Irish Pub brought the heat this past Thursday, Sept. 28, with red hot chili peppers — not the band, but rather many of the hottest peppers known to man. The Paddy Wagon, a staple in ...

I went to the City Beverage Farmers Market Pepper Eating Contest on Saturday afternoon expecting to see a bunch of grown men cry. Instead, I saw just one woman cry — and she turned out to be one of ...