The festival was held in the Fremantle Esplanade which was fenced off for a huge variety of stalls featuring everything from chilli beer to chilli popcorn (both of which were really delicious).
My favourite stall was the Worlds Hottest Chilli Salt stall, which had a variety of salts (one of my favourite things) that were seasoned with chilli and other spices. We actually had to take a break after this stall, I ate way too much salt!
The highlight of the day was trying the world's second hottest chilli, the Ghost chilli. It had just been beaten in hotness 3 weeks ago by the Moruga Scorpion chilli. It was... a completely different thing to regular chilli! I had a tiny slice on a piece of cracker, at which time one of the boys hosting the stall starting recording us on his iPhone - never a good sign.
The guy at the stall had said to give it a couple of minutes to set in to maximum heat, he wasn't kidding! The burning set in straight away, but I could still talk and function and had motor skills (enough to buy a pod of the Moruga Scorpion!) until about a minute in, where I was rendered completely immobile and sat on the grass feeling very sorry for myself. It was certainly an experience! I think that the pod of the Moruga Scorpion will be strictly for ornamental purposes, I don't even have the courage to open the packet!
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