First there is sniffing, then crying, gasping for air or worse. With the “Hot Chip Challenge”, a dangerous TikTok trend also reached Austria. But it is not only such extremely hot tortilla chips that can cause health problems or even death, but above a certain amount they can also be everyday foodstuffs.
The fact that the chip packaging is shaped like a coffin should be sufficient explanation and warning. Yet more and more (young) people are taking up the ‘Hot Chip Challenge’ on TikTok. A “test of courage” that involves eating or at least nibbling a tortilla chip containing the fiery hot powder of the hottest chili in the world: the Carolina Reaper!
It doesn’t get sharper than that
For comparison, while an average hot pepper adds a few hundred Scovilles to the spiciness scale, or a Tabasco sauce adds about 5,000 Scovilles, this devil’s pepper has a whopping 2.2 million Scovilles! She also appears again and again at chili festivals and competitions, where she brings the daring “foodies” to their knees…
Source: Krone
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