♪ Ah ♪
- Don't worry, I'm crying because of how happy I am.
Hi, I'm Elise.
And you're probably wondering how I got here.
I'm a food content creator and above all else I love to eat.
So I grabbed a bunch of my friends
and today we are on a mission
to try the spiciest foods the world has to offer.
- Hi, my name is Jaidyn and I'm not very good with spice.
When it's just unnecessarily spicy for no reason,
I cannot stand that.
- Hi, I'm Selorm. I love spicy food.
Every time I'm at a restaurant
I try to get like the spiciest version of a food.
- Hey, what's up? This is Alex.
If you don't know this about me, I love spicy food.
I love eating jalapenos, serranos.
I eat them on the daily.
- My spice tolerance is pretty high.
I am Ghanaian, West African.
I'm not too worried about this situation.
I'm pretty confident that I'm gonna win.
- I think Selorm might win today.
- I think I'm going to kill this challenge.
I think I'm gonna be the winner.
- All right, friends are we ready to go?
- Yeah. - Let's do it!
- Lets get outta here.
- You ain't winning, though.
- Today, we're trying the spiciest thing on the menu
at Orochon Ramen, the infamous spicy ramen bowl,
AKA the special two challenge.
The goal is to finish the entire bowl of ramen
in under 30 minutes.
If we can't do that,
then we'll just compete against each other
to see who will be crowned the spice champ.
(air horn blowing)
It's the heartburn that I'm worried about.
- I'm worried about the visit to the toilet.
- Do you have any strategies in place?
- I think it depends on the way you breathe.
Like when your mouth is hot, you know?
- I think we gotta pace ourselves, yeah?
- No, I'm doing the opposite.
I'm taking the anime approach and I'm just like
(Alex slurping) (Elise laughing)
- Are you guys ready?
- No!
- [Woman Behind Camera] Three, two, one.
(fierce music)
- Okay.
- I'm gonna try the broth first.
Coming into the game I was like, you know what? I got this.
I'm gonna try the broth first and see, you know,
if I can actually take that in first.
And that was a quick no 'cause that
(bleep) was spicy as heck.
- In the beginning, I was thinking to myself
eating the noodles first.
That's what's gonna make the most sense
because I knew the spice was gonna come from the broth, duh.
I see what we're working with.
(fierce music)
- I'm dead.
- I don't talk when I'm in pain.
So I got real quiet as soon as I tasted that broth.
- My eyes are already watering.
So when I started, I was doing my thing.
I was drinking the soup, trying to really keep up.
(Jaidyn panting)
- We're fine. We're good, we're good.
- I thought it was gonna be spicier!
(record scratch) (Elise laughs)
- My issue isn't so much the spice, it's the amount.
- The noodles actually weren't bad at all.
And when I started, I literally said,
"Oh, this is not as bad as I thought it was gonna be."
because it wasn't.
But it's the quantity of this meal.
- I actually don't even know if I'm gonna win
because I'm gonna be bloated.
- That's true, it's a lot of food.
- I'm okay, I was sitting next to Elise,
and she was showing me up.
My stomach is burning.
I had to, you know, keep up with her.
(Selorm coughing)
- Oh there she goes! She's coughing!
- The competition isn't who can't drink water the quickest,
so I'm gonna drink my water.
- So I'm gonna try to not drink anything.
- My hand is shaking.
- Can I get a napkin?
- Ooh.
My chest is burning right here.
Why am I feeling spice in this area?
(tense music with ticking clock)
- Elise, it might be a good time for some trivia.
(bell dinging)
(dramatic music)
- Welcome to the trivia section where I, Elise,
will be asking my friends some trivia questions
as we are all suffering.
According to Guinness World Records,
what is the world's hottest pepper?
Ghost pepper, Jalapeno pepper,
or Smokin' Ed's Carolina Reaper?
- Ghost pepper.
- Carolina.
- All of the above.
- The answer is the Carolina Reaper.
- Alex, you won something.
- Can I have, like, something to get the pain away?
- [Jaidyn] The snot is coming.
- I'm definitely in the lead right now.
- Elise is like, I'm winning right now.
And I saw that she was eating the noodles
and I was like, you know what?
Yeah, I should be eating noodles.
Instead of just, you know eating noodles
like a normal person, I just start swallowing them.
Chewing is not an option.
- My issue here is I'm almost done with my actual noodles.
- She is downing this like no other.
- The issue is the liquid.
I don't know if I'm gonna be able to drink this.
So towards the middle, I kept slurping in the soup.
- Oh no.
- She started drinking it.
Like girl, holy, you doing the most like.
- Oh my God, no, no, no, no
- No. It was very liquidy.
It was swashing around in there,
and I was starting to feel the acid reflux.
That's heartburn, if you don't know.
But I was looking over at everybody else
and I saw that they're bowls was not even close
to where I was, as I expected.
- Elise is a little in the lead right now.
- Very much in the lead.
I'm on my Naruto (bleep) y'all.
- My lips are on fire.
(tense music with clock ticking)
- I can't see, and I can't smell.
- Mama aint raise no punk, okay?
(fierce music)
I think about like 10 minutes in I was done.
I was dead.
Oh my God, you finished all the ramen!
- I'm not losing!
- It's a lot of broth.
This is a questionable amount of broth.
- I didn't chew a lot of these noodles,
so I don't know how it's gonna go down.
(fierce music)
So much burping.
- Ah!
(tense music with clock ticking)
- I think I'm the first one to finish their drink.
I'm drinking. All of my juices was gone.
I had water, I had green tea, coffee.
I was struggling the entire time.
(Jaidyn panting)
Woo!
(bell dinging)
(mellow music)
- Question number two:
Name the common--
(coughing)
Name the common chemical in peppers that makes them spicy.
- Chlorine.
- Is it A sulfuric acid, B calcium carbonate,
or C capsaicin?
- Capsaicin.
- Capsaicin? - Capsaicin.
- [Elise] The answer is capsaicin!
- Oh my gosh! She's almost done with everything in her bowl.
- You only see her bowl so you don't know
who else is almost done!
- Selorm, you feeling some type of way over there?
- I've never felt better.
(tense music with clock ticking)
- Oh Lord have mercy on my soul.
- Someone else might have to drive us home.
And then it just got to be too much.
The issue isn't even like how it tastes in my mouth.
It's how it feels in my belly.
I just started losing it.
I was like sweating, laying down.
I think I was like hallucinating a little bit.
I'm actually afraid I'm gonna puke.
All of a sudden, I just felt like
I needed to go to the bathroom
and I was like, yeah, I need to go to the bathroom.
- Selorm is out!
- I think we lost one.
- We lost one guys.
I'm lightheaded, I might be next.
- When Selorm went to the bathroom,
I was like oh my freaking God.
Like, I can't believe she's really feeling that bad
'cause like I thought I was feeling bad,
because at that point I lost all consciousness.
- We had some individuals who had to tap out early.
We had individuals blowing up the bathroom.
I'm saying individuals as if it wasn't one individual.
(bell dinging)
(mellow music)
Next question.
When is International Hot and Spicy Food Day?
- March 7th.
- June 20th.
- It's January 16th.
- That's my birthday!
Oh my God I was born on the spiciest day of the year.
Selorm, you're out for the count?
- I think I'm out, to be honest.
I just ate a lot of noodles whole. I puked.
- Did you vlog it?
- I did not vlog it, no.
I think I'm gonna chill.
I'm still a little behind you with where my bowl is.
But I'm not going any further.
(bell dinging)
(mellow music)
Okay, so I'm out of the race.
So I'm going to read the trivia questions.
What animal is unaffected by spice?
A dogs, B birds,
C ferrets or D gerbils?
- Birds because they're not real. Do birds have tongues?
- I would say birds.
- I'm gonna say gerbil.
- The answer is birds.
- Y'all we got five minutes left.
(record scratching)
Are you okay?
- Wait, are you okay, Jaidyn?
- So I eat one of the mushrooms
and I feel like I'm gonna throw up.
So I pause and I'm like, yo, what's this?
I'm good.
- This is the timer you guys.
This is how much time we got left.
18 seconds.
10, 9, 8, 7
6, 5, 4, 3
2, 1, we lose!
- All right, y'all we're done. We called it quits.
We tried our best. We did a good job.
Listen, don't start talking unless you tried it before.
- Exactly. - This is hard.
- Okay so ranking wise, you are the winner.
(air horn blowing)
And in the second place goes to
- Selorm! - Selorm.
I think third place will go to Jaidyn.
Sadly, I lost.
- Okay. My stomach hurts. I'm in pain.
I can't even stand up straight.
- I had a good feeling that I was gonna be the winner.
- [Jaidyn] Cheater! Cheater!
- There's some salty individuals in the back.
- I feel like I need a shower and a hug.
- Selorm did tap out, so I'm her second alternative,
so that means I came in third.
- The spice is way too much.
This is a dangerous challenge.
I do not recommend. Don't do this.
What is the reason?
(upbeat hip hop music)