What the man won't do for a dollar...or 50

When Ben was in the MTC in Brazil he wanted some hot sauce. If you know Ben, you know that he likes hot sauce on just about everything. Well, in Brazil they don't really have hot sauce, they have hot peppers in vinegar, and you just pour the vinegar out and that's your hot sauce. Well, someone bet him to eat one of the peppers. Ben pulled one out and popped it in his mouth. Where it touched his tongue, it bled. It burned all the way down, around and through. It completed its noisy, burning trip start to finish in about 45 minutes. There was no prize to be had or reward for this crazy act.
Flash forward about 11 years to the Happy Sumo in Provo. Ben and his co-workers were treated to lunch by a vendor. After finishing lunch the vendor told Ben he would give him $50 if he ate the golf ball size wad of wasabi. Ben told the man to give him the money, with 5o dollars in his hand he picked up the wasabi and popped it in his mouth. He described it as being like playdough in consistency. He got it down and kept the money. His coworkers rolled their eyes and said "whatever" while the vendor was shocked. You see, Ben has an iron gut and nothing he eats really bothers him. In our 9 years of marriage the man has never thrown up once. I must say I'm jealous. Ben's co-workers know he has an iron gut and weren't surprised at all by his wasabi eating. Ben said that it took about an hour before he knew it would stay down, crazy I say. I guess that's one way to make a quick buck. So, I asked if he would eat another Brazilian hot pepper if offered $5o, he thought for a second and then said yes. Crazy!