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Idk how the legal accusations stand up, as there are warnings and liability disclaimers everywhere on it...
I've eaten it, most of my friends have, and we were fine. But I've known others who reacted much more strongly to just a crumb, so I can see how with preexisting conditions that could happen.
In doing some research, I found that there have been quite a few people reporting stomacheaches and being hospitalized from previous years of the chip. There's also been a case of 15 year old dying from a stroke caused by the Carolina Reaper pepper. I hate to say it, but I think that maybe we're taking these peppers too far to the point that they are becoming hazardous to our health.
Wanting to prove how tough you are to others who may or may not even care has always been hazardous to one's health. We're only about a decade past a challenge to eat laundry detergent.
No amount of liability disclaimers will protect you if you sell your products to 14 year olds
That sound like someone with a trench coat selling chip to kids on a dark corner with flickering light.
Marketing an outright painful food product to teenagers by framing it as a social media "challenge" is a bit scummy, frankly.