These are legitimately hot. I’m the idiot who orders their curry “native extra spicy” and I have half-used bottles of ghost pepper sauces in the fridge. I love ludicrously spicy food.
The 2x ramen nearly beat me. The first fork was merely volcanic. Drinking the last of the broth in the bottom was infernal. It’s hot.
A few years ago I was really into spicy food. I would cut up entire ghost peppers or habaneros and put them in almost every meal. I was at the point where physically it made we sweat but i could actually enjoy the flavor.
Eating the 2x spicy ramen two days in a row destroyed my stomach and also had me in tears as that oil makes it linger. When I say destroyed i mean it took over a month for it to get back to normal and even after that it wasn’t like it was before.
I don’t eat any spicy food anymore. I could see why you might pull these.
The packet specifically in the BBC image - I was at the Chinese supermarket in London Chinatown, when some Korean students walked in and one of them saw those packets and said ‘oh yeah that’s the one that completely beat me.’
I was curious, so naturally I bought five packets.
I was unable to finish a single whole packet. Tried five times. Failed five times. Got very close but never quite made it.
I don't know if "acute poisoning" is gross exaggeration or some medical classification but having tried them and know people who really shouldn't have tried them fuck up their stomach for week+, these should be behind the counter purchase. I can see kids too audacious to know when to quit.
From browsing around it seems small children can be poisoned by amounts of capsaicin that are perfectly safe for adults (if unpleasant), and that Denmark might've been using the metric of "what if a small child consumed the entire sauce packet".
Same here, I eat spicy food all the time but these are on another level. I will eventually finish a bowl, but my lips and throat were always sensitive for a few hours afterwards. Using a half or a third of the sauce sachet is more than enough for me. I stopped buying them because as much as I enjoy spicy food this flavour was just pure extreme self-torture.
The 2x ramen nearly beat me. The first fork was merely volcanic. Drinking the last of the broth in the bottom was infernal. It’s hot.