COIMBATORE(PTI): Driven by the desire to get into the Guiness Book of World Records, Panthasararthy, popularly known as Snake King, took his 83rd shot at the record book by eating 9,500 peppers in just five minutes here in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu last week.
He had originally planned to swallow 10,800 peppers, but could chew and wash down with water only 9,500. In the process he split over 1000 peppers.
For Parthasarthy, a local hero, such attempts have almost become the order of the day.
He had gulped down 510 bean seeds in June last, and in the last couple of months, swallowed 35 eggs in 15 seconds, eaten 51 dried chilies and an entire jackfruit— skin, seeds et al, a kilogram of ice and a kilogram of pickle.
He had also pushed a mustard seed backwards with his nose over half kilometer.
Article extracted from this publication >> September 23, 1994
