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Chipotle Peppered With Complaints Over Salsa Spiciness

To investigate the hot issue, The Wall Street Journal sent samples of Chipotle’s salsa from three cities to a New Mexico lab that tests the Scoville units of chile peppers

Has Chipotle’s salsa become hotter? Some fans insist it has.
By Andrew Restuccia
 and Heather Haddon
 | Photographs by F. Martin Ramin/The Wall Street Journal; Food Styling by Mieko Takahashi

Derek Osborne likes spicy food, but this was different.

A few bites into his chicken burrito, his mouth was overtaken by a wave of heat, dulling his palate for the rest of the meal. The culprit: Chipotle’s Tomatillo-Red Chili Salsa.

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