What a brutal choice for a young lad from Rio de Janeiro: to try to emulate Ronaldinho and Neymar, or Roberto Carlos and Casemiro? To go play with Lionel Messi or join a club in the midst of a Champions League three-peat? It turns out that not only were those myopic opinions completely wrong about what this clever, explosive Brazilian was capable of on the pitch, they'd completely ignored what a fantastic decision he made, aged just 16, when he opted to sign for Real Madrid and reject Barcelona. was at its most misplaced, most impatient, the main theme was about his decision-making. When the general criticism of Vinicius Jr.
^ "Ed Currie is the Mad Genius Behind the Carolina Reaper".^ 07 - Ed Currie - PuckerButt Pepper Company - The Hottest Farmer in the World *AG ODDITIES EDITION* - United We Ag, retrieved."How this ex-addict turned self-made millionaire created the world's most hellish peppers". " 'We Are the Champions' Showcases Unique Global Contests". "Netflix to Premiere 'We Are the Champions,' Rainn Wilson's Look at Real, Unusual Competitions (EXCLUSIVE)". "How One Man Overcame Addiction by Growing the Hottest Peppers in the World". ^ "Don't Fear the Reaper: Smokin' Ed Currie on the Link Between Peppers and Addiction"."Ed Currie, creator of the Carolina Reaper, is working on an even hotter variety". In 2017, Guinness World Records gave the title of World's Hottest Chili to the Carolina Reaper. To create the Carolina Reaper, he took a pepper from Pakistan and combined it with one from Saint Vincent. Ĭurrie crossbreeds his pepper plants by taking the pollen of one plant with a paintbrush and then delivering that pollen to a different plant.
Currie's hot sauce "The Last Dab" became known when it was featured on the YouTube show Hot Ones. PuckerButt has annual revenues close to $1 million, and it is the largest organic pepper farm in the United States.
He sells seeds, pepper mash, and hot sauce to more than 95 countries. The company has over 500,000 pepper plants and sells peppers considered to be extremely hot. Puckerbutt Pepper Company Ĭurrie started The Puckerbutt Pepper Company in Fort Mill, South Carolina in 2003. He was featured in the episode "Chili Eating" in the 2020 Netflix documentary series, We Are the Champions. In 2001, Currie moved to South Carolina, where he began growing his own peppers in the yard and experimenting with crossbreeds. He graduated from Central Michigan University and fought addiction for many years. Background Ĭurrie was born in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan. He is best known for breeding, according to Guinness World Records, the hottest chili pepper in the world: Smokin’ Ed's Carolina Reaper. "Smokin" Ed Currie is an American chili pepper breeder who is the founder and president of the Puckerbutt Pepper Company. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Quality standards, event notability guideline, or encyclopedic content policy. Please expand this article with properly sourced content to meet Wikipedia's This article reads like a press release or a news article and is largely based on routine coverage or sensationalism.