The internet is rife with videos of people eating extraordinarily hot chili peppers.

But you’ve probably not seen the Royal Danish Navy Band (Søværnets Tamburkorps) play traditional songs while eating 17 Carolina Reapers and 4 ghost peppers.

Enabled by Danish chili-enthusiast and connoisseur Chili Klaus, the band dutifully eats the peppers before beginning their music routine, before visibly breaking down during their playing.

It’s a hilarious moment, and makes us less likely to try these mega-hot peppers than ever before.

Ghost peppers and Carolina Reaper peppers in hand

See the video below.

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Group of sailors in uniform playing musical instruments, some covering their mouths, with a ship and harbor in the background.
Consuming the extremely hot peppers.
Watch the royal danish navy band play while eating ghost peppers
The band beginning to feel the burn
Definitely feeling it.

By Moss & Fog Staff

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