Eight German teenagers were hospitalised after a test of courage in which they drank chilli sauce more than 200 times hotter than normal.
The Red Cross in the southern city of Augsburg says that 10 boys, aged 13 and 14, year drank the sauce, apparently in school.
The German news agency DAPD quoted the Red Cross as saying the boys complained of feeling sick, and eight were taken to a hospital.
They were to be kept in overnight for observation.
The Red Cross said that on the Scoville scale, which measures the hotness of chillies, the sauce measured 535,000 - as much as some pepper sprays used by law enforcement. Normal Tabasco sauce measures just 2,500 on the Scoville scale.
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