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Teen Death After Spicy 'One Chip Challenge' Raises Alarm
Medpage Today ^ | September 8, 2023 | Jennifer Henderson

Posted on 09/13/2023 5:43:14 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 09/13/2023 5:43:14 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Can’t blame Tide pods for this one.


2 posted on 09/13/2023 5:45:25 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: nickcarraway

That warning label is also on the packaging itself.

The kid was stupid.


3 posted on 09/13/2023 5:46:05 PM PDT by Don W (When blacks riot, neighborhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn)
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To: nickcarraway

Can you imagine the boardroom:

“Guys I got a great idea. Let’s make a chip that so hot, that people puke their guts out, and it sets their digestive tract on fire.”

“BRILLIANT! Let’s do it!”


4 posted on 09/13/2023 5:46:15 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Don W

Since they took it off the shelves, you can go online and buy it, and it’s like $40 per package.


5 posted on 09/13/2023 5:47:28 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Though the cause of the 14-year-old's death was not immediately clear

Probably Covid.

Or the clot shot.

:)

6 posted on 09/13/2023 5:48:25 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Keep America Beautiful by keeping Canadian Trash Out. Deport Jennifer Granholm!)
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To: nickcarraway

It does not raise alarm to me.

one person has died, and we don’t even know why. Company has been around since 2008 and sold lots of chips. For all we know the kid ate something else too, or maybe he had a case of myocarditis that was undiagnosed, and the chip was coincidental. If these chips were deadly we likely would have known before now.

According to wikipedia:

Paqui is an American brand of tortilla chips made by Amplify Snack Brands, Inc, a subsidiary of The Hershey Company. Its Carolina Reaper chips, sold individually wrapped, was known for being one of the spiciest flavors sold.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9] Doug Lyon, a veteran of the advertising industry, and Alissa Bassana founded Paqui in Austin in 2008.[10] SkinnyPop acquired Paqui in 2015, after which Lyon became the parent company’s vice president of creative and innovation.[11] After SkinnyPop later reincorporated as Amplify Snack Brands, The Hershey Company acquired Amplify in 2017.[12]


7 posted on 09/13/2023 5:48:43 PM PDT by algore
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To: nickcarraway

A 14 year old is not a “child” in the physical sense. His body is likely more resilient than a older adult.

What the hell was in that?


8 posted on 09/13/2023 5:48:49 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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To: nickcarraway

How about the Volcano Jump Challenge, or the Fistful of Fentanyl Challenge?


9 posted on 09/13/2023 5:49:04 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: nickcarraway

How about a clogged heart due to “vax” causing leading to a heart attack unders stress from the chip?


10 posted on 09/13/2023 5:50:31 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: nickcarraway

Still looking for more Blair’s Death Rain Habanero potato chips. A small bag of those will light you up with a sweet touch at the end. Out of stock for years.


11 posted on 09/13/2023 5:53:47 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Seriously.)
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To: dfwgator

I was on board until I saw the cost of one chip. Nope.


12 posted on 09/13/2023 5:53:54 PM PDT by null and void ( Fall Is Here: Pumpkin Spice-Scented Children Presented To Joe Biden)
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To: nickcarraway

Sprinkle that stuff all around as an obesity treatment.


13 posted on 09/13/2023 5:54:43 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: Fester Chugabrew

I can handle the hotness in the mouth but it’s in the intestines that is the reason I would never do it. You’ll suffer for hours as opposed to a few minutes.


14 posted on 09/13/2023 5:56:13 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SauronOfMordor
"What the hell was in that?"

Carolina Reaper and Naga Viper peppers

Pure Capsacin has a scoville level of 16,000,000.

Below from

https://pepperscale.com/

The Carolina Reaper is the current official hottest pepper in the world. How hot? With a heat range from 1,400,000 to 2,200,000 Scoville heat units, the Reaper is hotter than many defensive pepper sprays

Naga Viper - It sounds like a crazy pepper joke, but this extreme chili – a wicked offspring of the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion, Naga Morich, and ghost pepper (Bhut Jolokia) – sits among the hottest of the hottest (900,000 to 1,382,118 Scoville heat units)

15 posted on 09/13/2023 6:02:23 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: algore

https://www.forbes.com/sites/eustaciahuen/2016/09/28/worlds-spiciest-tortilla-chip-so-hot-its-sold-one-per-package/?sh=37b6131f156b


16 posted on 09/13/2023 6:03:02 PM PDT by algore
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To: dfwgator

To be sure, with certain foods there is ample irritation at the other end to spoil what otherwise would be pleasant. “When will I learn . . . ?”


17 posted on 09/13/2023 6:06:44 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Seriously.)
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To: nickcarraway
I have one of those chips in my kitchen cabinet. It remains unopened. I eat lots of peppers...ghost, carolina reaper, habanero, scorpion. I can handle them just fine. Dinner last night was "exotic curry" with chicken/lamb with the "hot" rating at the limit the kitchen could produce. My wife ate one piece of chicken and proclaimed it way to hot for her taste.

My chip will probably remain unopened. Discontinuation just makes it more valuable.

18 posted on 09/13/2023 6:34:55 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Don W

No, the kid was a kid.

The company was stupid to make such a product, and then to sell it in a little coffin.

“When you say it out loud beforehand, that makes it premeditated”.

One would love to be the mom’s attorney in the wrongful death suit. They’ve already admitted culpability, what a nice thing of them to do.


19 posted on 09/13/2023 6:43:07 PM PDT by OKSooner (Maybe Quix was right about some stuff. Pronouns=(XY, XYim, XY's))
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To: Don W

Well, to be fair, their brains aren’t fully developed yet. Don’t think I’m defending the teen, because I’m not.


20 posted on 09/13/2023 6:54:33 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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