The hot pepper linked to teen's death can cause arteries in the brain to spasm.

The hot pepper linked to teen’s death can cause arteries in the brain to spasm.

  • redfellow@sopuli.xyz
    311·
    1 year ago

    Still no proof capsaicin caused the death. I’m eagerly awaiting for what the autopsy unveils

      • retro@infosec.pub
        2·
        1 year ago

        There’s no proof aliens didn’t shoot him with an invisible laser… also interested to see what the autopsy unveils

    • NuPNuA@lemm.ee
      2·
      1 year ago

      Seabrook’s in the UK did Trinidad Scorpion crisps for a bit and they were gorgeous. Haven’t seen them for a while either.

    • LotrOrc@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 year ago

      I’m with you I regularly eat spicy food, and also grow my own scorpion and ghost peppers and add them into my cooking. I hate most hot sauces in general, as they’re all burn and no flavour. I have however found some that do buck the trend, but in general I don’t go for hot sauces too often

        • LotrOrc@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          I’ve had a couple spicy shark ones that have flavour. They also have the pure extract ones but I usually stay away from those

          There’s a Korean BBQ hot sauce that I think is really good

          There’s a matouks west Indian hot sauce I’ve enjoyed

          I’ve found that hot sauces that are a bit chunkier and have actual ingredients like small chunks of chilli or pineapple tend to have a more balanced flavor and heat profile though

      • eran_morad@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        Drop some knowledge, bruh. I can’t find a decent hot sauce that’s both hot and tasty, that’s not overpowered by bullshit like garlic powder.

    • NuPNuA@lemm.ee
      1·
      1 year ago

      It’s probably fine for industrial cooking where it’s being heavily diluted. These crisps don’t use it though.

    • kmkz_ninja@lemmy.world
      55·
      1 year ago

      Why?

      Edit: Nice autodownvote. Yeah, I agree. Nothing artificial should ever be eaten. No extracts. Hell, processed seaweed is too artificial. Frankly, if ypu can’t grow it, we should ban it because I’m an authoritarian tool.

  • porkins@sh.itjust.works
    49·
    1 year ago

    I did the challenge two days ago. It was the third spiciest I’ve had. Was definitely something that could do harm to someone who doesn’t know how to handle ultra-spicy. The kid won a Darwin Award. You can’t ban spicy food nor should you. This is a parenting issue. If this kid didn’t die from this skull and crossbones coffin wrapped in warnings, it would have been some other TikTok challenge like drinking bleach.

    • fear@kbin.social
      4·
      1 year ago

      The 14 year old ate the chip at school, there’s no mention of who gave the chip to him. It’s a school administration problem, but hardly a parenting issue unless the mother bought the chip for her son and sent it to school with him. The mother came to pick the boy up right away when he complained of pain, rushed him to the hospital when he lost consciousness, and she is now speaking out to warn others about the dangers of this stupid challenge.

        • magnusrufus@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 year ago

          Warnings of what? Which warning would have made risk clear? Death imagery is part of their marketing not a legitimate warning. The kid eating a commercially sold food item is not on the same level as drinking bleach. It’s weirdly cold and callous victim blaming to say that he was so stupid that he would inevitably die in some similar way. It rings the same as the people that scoff at the McDonalds coffee thing. Yeah you shouldn’t ban hot coffee but you probably should ban serving coffee hot enough to cause third degree burns.

          • porkins@sh.itjust.works
            21·
            1 year ago

            These warnings. They are prominently displayed. It is a stretch to call him a victim. The only exception would be if someone tricked him into eating the chip.

              • porkins@sh.itjust.works
                1·
                1 year ago

                The keep out of reach of children and the adults only warning. Also, the thousands of videos online of people showing how hot the chip is or even ones of kids his age eating it and resulting in an ambulance trip. It wasn’t even the hottest thing that I’ve eaten honestly, but it was enough to make most people have a very bad time. The hottest natural thing that I have eaten was hot sauce prepared by the founder of Halal Guys many years ago when he worked at the original location. He called it a bad batch because it was too strong. The hottest extract was the hot wing challenge from The Mean Fiddler. This was third, but ranked closely with quite a few others.

                • magnusrufus@lemmy.world
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  Honestly you think keep out of reach of children on a food item is the same level of warning as not drinking bleach?