Local news attempts to eat world's hottest chip and things went off the rails real quick

'Oh, Natalie threw up!'
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Brian Koerber
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There's just something glorious about watching local news anchor suffer through embarrassing or painful situations.

KGWN in Denver recently decided to make five of its anchors do the Paqui One Chip Challenge. The lone chip is flavored with the world's hottest pepper, the Carolina reaper. Despite it being only a single corn chip, the snack can bring people to tears, make them chug milk, vomit, and completely ruin their day.

As you could have guessed, things did not go so well for the anchors that took the challenge.

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Brian Koerber

Brian was the Culture Editor and has been working at Mashable on the web culture desk since 2014.


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