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Monday, August 25, 2008
Pepper popping part
of hot time at Underground Atlanta
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Monday, August 25, 2008
Colley Handspike was cool as a bell pepper Sunday.
The Atlanta resident crouched at the table, Latino music blaring, and stared intently at his meal of fiery, plump, mostly green-with-a-few-red jalapeño peppers. The challenge: Eat as many as you can in one minute. One at a time.
Mikki K. Harris/mkharris@ajc.com
Colley Handspike of Atlanta ate 20 peppers in less than a minute to win the contest Sunday to benefit the Atlanta Community Food Bank. He vowed to spend his $500 prize on his fiancee.
Mikki K. Harris/mkharris@ajc.com
Maru Gonzalez gets ready for the contest, but her strategy of eating the peppers whole without chewing landed her a third place finish.
Mikki K. Harris/Staff
Douglas Foster of Asheville, N.C., chews his peppers Sunday in the La Costeña ‘Feel the Heat Jalapeño Eating Challenge Tour’ during the Festival Peachtree Latino at Underground Atlanta. Foster rated the heat of the peppers a 6 on a scale of 1 to 10.
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