Most of the folks reading this comic probably already know that Jerry is based on a real person. Well, a little while ago… he got a hold of some Ghost peppers. It held the Guinness record as the hottest pepper in the world until late last year when the naga viper took its place. Still, this is a pepper which is 401.5 times hotter than tobasco sauce. There is a scale for these things (hotness that is – I’m around a 6 trillion) called the Scoville scale which rates the Ghost pepper at just over 1,000,000. For comparison purposes: a jalepeno is a maximum 8,000 and a bell pepper rates a 0. Yeah, sumbitches be hot.
So naturally Zavier decided to eat one.
Gotta give it up for my dawg Zavier though, looking around the YouTube-verse, most of the other videos where guys scarf these things involve coughing, OMG-ing!, and acting like pansies. And my man Zavier… gets the hiccups. This is the sort of thing that makes me wonder if the real Jerry might just be more absurd than the one in this comic.
Natural selection at work
My mighty masculinity compels me to try to out-do him, strangling that naggy voice in the back of my head which compels me not to do things which endanger my well-being for no good reason.