westerners are so weird about spice. they either think black pepper is too spicy or they eat these bizarre hot sauces/foods that are just pepper extracts that give you food poisoning. just be normal and throw some chilis in your food when you’re cooking.

I mean, Buldak noodles are supposed to be something like that, but they legitimately do taste good. They are exactly at the point where it is actually painful to eat, but not too much to enjoy it. I have heard they have variants that are 2-4x as spicy and do not intend to try them.

Some of the hot sauce they sell is literally hotter than pepper spray.

It’s a fetish that somehow became mainstream.

Maybe? I kinda wanted to try one just to see what my tolerance is. All my meals are spicy, I absolutely love spicy food, and I’ve wanted to grow some ghost peppers in my yard (though I haven’t because I worry the neighbor’s dog might get into it and get hurt). Maybe there’s some element of toxic masculinity in it, I definitely would brag if I ate one after letting people laught at my pain.

But I’ve never heard of someone dying before. Worst I have heard was someone passing out at convention, but waking up just fine - I had assumed that was just from the pain. A lot of the adventurousness of ultra-spicy foods comes from knowing it’s safe (so long you don’t get any in your eyes, wear googles like a dork), so knowing it’s even possible to die takes away a lot of the fun.

i also truly can’t say I’ve heard of someone dying from spicy food. Someone on Hot Ones is gonna die i guess. it’ll be a celeb though so that’s more fun at least.

pain can be fun.

seems like some shit for marketing to toxic masculinity

It is. That’s all it is.

I’m starting the “hold your tongue on a hot stove for 10 minutes” challenge

Usually it’s not the spiciness itself that gets you, but certain medical conditions can be aggravated by it since that high of a scoville unit basically triggers all of the body’s pain receptors

this chip is fuckin insane. i do wonder what the autopsy will say. Did the chip cause cardiac arrest in a 14 year old or something? Fuckin crazy. I saw some videos of this “challenge” but it was all adults.

Who knows. Bodies are weird and horrific. I did here from a nurse that some brave adventurer chewed and swallowed a 9,000,00 scoville gummy bear at a middle school this week. wonder how that will turn out.

Pain can cause inflammation, hyperventilation, disruptions to heartbeat, a spike in blood pressure, and many other things that you probably know can lead to death in someone with a vulnerability

Americans will see other cultures doing something that uncomfortably clashes w/ their lifestyle (eating spicy foods) and assume it must be masochism. Then they start to replicate it cynically with an emphasis on the “challenge” aspect. The USA is really something else

This entire thread is way fucking overblown. As if a spicy corn chip trinket creates any food waste or whatever the fuck over the million other stupid, boring ways we waste shit

I see that energy drink can you and millions of other people couldn’t be bothered to recycle.

tell me about it, i feel like getting indian food with a spice level of 3 out of 6 should be spicy but way too often its not shit, probably cause of white people.

I mean, they designed the chip as a thing to be eaten. It doesn’t appear that the marketing made the child eat it in a way that was different from anyone else.

The product has the challenge on its packaging.

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CTRL+F for white shows only me talking about my indian food not being spicy enough, so post receipts and quotes with usernames instead of what you gleaned. Take your time getting the receipts, I’ll check back for them.