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Tuesday, 22 November, 2011
Zurich sausage so hot you might need a medic
A sausage seller in Zurich is putting its customers to the test with the spiciest banger around—500 times spicier than tabasco sauce. You might have heard of the Scoville scale—it ranks chilies in order of how spicy they are. Tabasco sauce and jalapenos rank at about 3,500 to 8,000 heat units on the scale. This sausage in sauce comes in at one million heat units. WRS’s Jo Fahy went to see Michael Marchetto, sausage afficionado at Körry Art of Wurst on Zurich’s Langstrasse, where they’ve been selling this painful snack for a few weeks:
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