Here we see the usual response to stupidity playing out.
Amazon and eBay have removed a super-hot tortilla chip linked to the death of an American teenager from sale.
The parents of Harris Wolobah, 14, believe that the One Chip Challenge caused his death last week.
It was taken off shelves in the US, where it was widely sold, but imports from global sellers remained on-sale.
Paqui is working with retailers in the US to remove the product from the shelves. Why? Because some people can’t read the label that clearly says that it is not for children and not for anyone with underlying health issues or sensitivity to spicy foods (that would be me).
I think the whole idea is pretty stupid, but here we are seeing that it weeds out the terminally stupid. Personally, I’d leave it on the shelves and let it carry on weeding them out. Let Darwin do his thing.
Harris’s official cause of death has not been confirmed, but his parents have called for the One Chip Challenge to be banned.
Of course they have. The answer to stupidity is always to ban something.
I quite like spicy food but Scotch Bonnet peppers are about my limit for hotness, California Reapers are on a whole different level so I wouldn’t want to touch them. Eating really hot peppers as some kind of challenge no, I don’t need to prove I’m harder than someone else, I grew out of that when I was eleven.
The stupid always like to ban things at it increased their chances in the gene pool.
But, never fear, the internet is hear and if they can’t make and sell them then the could at the very least put the recipe online.
here not hear. Duh.
OK, if we’re banning food and drink because stupid people consume something they shouldn’t (or consume too much of something) then what about water intoxication? Drinking large quantities of water too fast can kill you. So, we’d better ban water then.