“Do you like hot things?” my co-worker asked with a sly grin.<\/p>\n

I do like hot things, to an extent. I like spicy salsa and wasabi, but I can’t handle “burn your face off” hot. <\/p>\n

For the record, “Cocoa Loco” is “burn your face off” hot. And then some.<\/p>\n

Cocoa Loco<\/a>, made by the Pucker Butt Pepper Company, is a small square of chocolate infused with Black Reaper pepper sauce. <\/p>\n

For those unfamiliar, allow me to explain “Scoville” heat rankings to you. The Scoville chart measures how hot things are in Scoville Heat Units (SHUs). Think of the hottest jalapeno that’s ever burned your mouth. Jalapenos have an average SHU rating of 5,000. Habanero peppers, which many people claim is the hottest thing they’ve ever consumed, start around 200,000 SHUs. At one million SHU, the Bhut Jolokia pepper was once considered to be the hottest pepper on the planet until the arrival of the Carolina Reaper, which measures 1.5 million SHU. There are a ton of videos on YouTube of people eating Carolina Reapers. Almost all of them end with tears, vomit, or both. The video by these kids is one of my favorites. Seemed like a good idea at the time!<\/p>\n