Dear god and to think Lena was going to eat a second one of these!
Zero chance the chip killed him.
Spicy foods don’t actually burn you, they just ‘taste’ like burning. That’s why holding a pepper doesn’t hurt your hand.
Spiciness hurts in two places, your mouth and ass. Both of which have taste buds that the molecule interacts with. It’s not corrosive.
Even the clickbaity description in the article of the dangers of capsaicin state that the potential esophageal damage is from vomiting, not the chemical.
Barring any allergies or heart problems, the chip didn’t do it.
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That article is an untested hypothesis. A football player with hypertension suddenly got symptoms of an issue most common with head trauma, physical exertion, and hypertension, three days after he ate a hot chip. That aside, the only other case study cited was effectively a question to whether it’s possible.
The article cited about the esophageal tear straight up states the hot peppers are not known to cause harm. The patient already had the tear, the spicy food just made him aware of it.
They sell this at 7-11, and I literally did this Sunday to show off to my kids. It’s horrible.
I’ve done the hot ones thing a few times (annual team-building thing at work), but this is different. It’s very hot, that’s to be expected, but the dryness and the amount of crumbly stuff on it makes it SO much worse. It gets between your teeth, and later when you think it’s over and you take a drink, it re-awakens it fully. It was still in my mouth like 30-45 minutes later.
Then I thought I was done so I took a bite of food like 2 hours later…instant stabbing abdominal pain. I found slamming 2 cups of yogurt fixed that (after 10 minutes of pain) then I was good.
I doubt this chip alone killed a kid, but it’s not fun especially if you’re new to hot challenges.
