They have blue tongues and flushed faces. On TikTok, many netizens participate in the “One Chip Challenge”. This viral challenge consists of eating a chip presented as the spiciest in the world. The only problem is that a young American died after being crushed, recounts the parisian.
According to the American site NBC, Harris Wolobah, a 14-year-old student, complained of stomach pains after eating the famous French fries on Friday, September 1. After going through the infirmary of his establishment, the student is sent home. His mother came to pick him up.
When he gets home, he briefly feels better, but passes out as he is about to leave for his basketball practice. Harris Wolobah is then taken to hospital where he will be pronounced dead a few minutes later, reports the Daily Mail.
Over two billion views
According to the young man’s mother, her son’s death is directly related to the French fries he ate that same day. An autopsy is awaited before the exact causes of Harris Wolobah’s death are known. A kitten has been posted on the GoFundMe site and has already raised over $22,000.
The “One Chip Challenge” has more than two billion views on the Chinese platform TikTok. Its European counterpart, the “Hot Chip Challenge” (as the product is commercially called), generated 123 million views. But this Tuesday, September 5, Tech&Co discovered that the hashtags (key words) associated with the challenges did not show any videos.
However, some are still accessible from the application’s search engine. While some date to the start of the TikTok trend in October 2022, others were posted over the summer.
This is how we see netizens open the package before swallowing the spicy chips. Depending on the brand, some see their tongue turn blue during tasting. A color that contrasts with the faces that blush quickly.
Keep out of the reach of children
The food consists of two types of peppers, explains the daily mail: the California reaper pepper and the Naga viper pepper. They show respectively 2.2 million Scoville and 1.3 million Scoville (the scale that measures the strength of a pepper). By comparison, the Espelette pepper is a thousand times less strong, with an alcohol content of 1,000 to 3,000 on the Scoville scale.
This danger has led manufacturers to indicate that the chips are intended for adults only. They also specify that the product must be kept out of the reach of children. In addition, a Louisiana school had banned its consumption as early as October. The police had also carried out prevention campaigns after the intervention of the emergency services in a secondary school in Georgia.
how do you remember West of France, ingestion of a very potent pepper can cause anaphylactic shock. This type of severe allergic reaction can cause such stimulation of the mucous membranes of the mouth, stomach, and intestines that death can result.
Source: BFM TV
