A US TV reporter says it felt like fire was coming out of her mouth, nose and ears when she ate what was billed as the hottest chilli pepper in the world and vomited live on air.
Natalie Tysdal and four co-presenters on Colorado's Channel 2 Daybreak show took up the 'Paqui One Chip Challenge' to eat what the tortilla chip company describes as an "eye-watering, curse-inducing chip made with the hottest pepper on the planet".
In video of the segment that's now gone viral, Ms Tysdal and her four male colleagues sitting at a desk cautiously try the chips, but one man refuses to eat a whole chip saying "it's too hot".
Ms Tysdal quietly eats her chip and asks "did you lick your fingers?" before the full impact hits her.
"Oh!" she declares, leaning back in her chair and laughing before desperately swigging coffee, leaning down and disappearing out of view under the desk.
"Oh, Natalie threw up!" a colleague says when he realises what has happened.
"Alright, let's go to a break. When we come back we'll get Natalie together."
Ms Tysdal later took to Facebook saying she'd thought she was okay until she had a drink of her coffee to wash down the chip.
"I threw up, couldn't breathe and felt like fire was coming out of my mouth, nose and ears," she wrote.
"I had a bottle of water, a glass of milk, a tablespoon of honey and three mints and still felt on fire. An hour later I had chills and a massive headache. Three hours have gone by and I feel like I was beat up in a dark alley."
The video posted to the KWGN Denver Facebook page amassed nearly 20,000 views in five hours.
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