That was one mega size pod, to me it would be perfic to make sauces and powders fewer pods to deal with, but a killer if your just going to eat them raw, when I was young I would just pop the whole pod in my mouth chew it up as fast as I could and swallow in case it was a really hot pepper and follow it with enough food so that it would not burn my gut to bad. Big pods are very hard to do that way as you found out. Now days I have to think about maybe just doing half, if was a big pod like that not so much as the scare factor, but more about choking or having to spit some out just so I could swallow it.
Great Reveiw!