Watch a symphony orchestra try to make music after eating the world's hottest chili peppers

Watch a symphony orchestra try to make music after eating the world's hottest chili peppers
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When attending the symphony, most food-related annoyances are related to noisily-unwrapped lozenges. For the Danish National Chamber Orchestra, however, playing a symphony meant surviving one of the spiciest foods on Earth.

The orchestra — conducted by Danish musician and noted chili aficionado Chili Klaus — paused during a recent performance of the Tango Jalousie to pop a combination of chili peppers that included Carolina Reapers, Trinidad Moruga Scorpion Peppers, and Ghost Peppers. The scene that follows (starting at 1:35 in the video below), with virtuoso musicians struggling to make music while suffering from the debilitating effects of the world's hottest chilis, is an agonizing, hilarious manifestation of "the show must go on":

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Mike Barry

Mike Barry is the senior editor of audience development and outreach at TheWeek.com. He was previously a contributing editor at The Huffington Post. Prior to that, he was best known for interrupting a college chemistry class.