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Company pulls spicy One Chip Challenge from store shelves as Massachusetts investigates teen's death (qz.com)

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Authorities are raising the alarm about a social media challenge in which people eat extremely spicy chips and attempt to avoid eating or drinking anything for as long as possible

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The One Chip Challenge chip sells for about $10 and comes wrapped in a sealed foil pouch that is enclosed in a coffin-shaped cardboard box.

People pay $10 for a chip that tastes deliberately nasty? People are weird.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, I can handle habaneros (at least Red Savina level) and those 2 reasons are why I never had the desire to try this. I've heard people say it smells and tastes gross. Then again, I'm put off by the vinegar/fermented taste of most hotsauces and many seem to like it (even in context where the taste doesn't really have something to mix into).

Even those spicy noodles I never tried due to higher cost and needing to order online, and I'm sure those actually taste good. Then again, if I want to "challenge" myself I could always just take normal food and add enough home-grown peppers (when I have them) or flakes/powder for free. Though I wouldn't even go too far with that.

Also this reminds me of a video by the BPL, where a guy had disgusting liquor (Malort) before the disgusting hot chip. For charity.