HabanerNO!
Today one of my students ate a habanero pepper. Apparently he'd asked for a hot pepper and as if in slow motion, from the hand of the farmer, the kid grabbed it and popped it into his mouth. Whole. Fresh picked. Hot shit. I blinked "did that just happen?" and within moments he started reacting. The farmer notice right away and quickly told him not to touch his eyes, but it was too late. I walked over and started sneezing from the fumes. My mouth and eyes burned, and all I did was walk close to the kid. He spat it out and another farmer got some goat cheese that he cut up and I fed it to the kid as quickly as possible. WTF. This poor student would later tell me he didn't realize it was a habanero, he thought maybe jalapeno but STILL. DUDE. Another student chimed in with the old "don't you put it in your mouth" tune from those drug infomercials, on the drive back to the city. Hilarious. The whole thing was quite funny. But quite serious.