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How This Ex-Addict Created The Last Dab Hot Sauce
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Ed Currie, founder of PuckerButt Peppers, runs a successful business, goes to church and supports community programs in his hometown of Fort Mill, South Carolina.
He's also a recovering addict who had some trouble with the law. Then an angel saved him, only to turn him into a bit of a devil.
"I like to hurt people," Currie says.
He certainly does. The 55-year-old self-proclaimed "mad scientist" makes the world's hottest hot sauces from the world's hottest peppers for PuckerButt Pepper Company. His Smokin' Ed's Carolina Reaper holds the Guinness World Record for hottest pepper.
Yours truly sampled a few, and I paid a steep price. More on that later.
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