An aspiring chef died after eating a super-hot chilli sauce as part of an endurance competition with a friend.Andrew Lee, 33, challenged his girlfriend’s brother to a contest to see who could eat the spiciest sauce that he could create.
The fork-lift truck driver, who wanted to cook for a living, prepared a tomato sauce made with red chillies grown on his father’s allotment. After eating it, however, he suffered intense discomfort and itching. The following morning he was found dead, possibly after suffering a heart attack.
Toxicology tests are being conducted to try to establish if he suffered a reaction to the food.
An inquest was told that Lee, from Edlington, England, was in perfect health and had just passed a medical examination at work. He was a keen cook and would often prepare meals for his parents. It is believed that Mr Lee had never prepared a dish as hot as the one he made the night before his death.
Found by Jason Baker.
You know, when a substance raises welts on your body, nature is yelling at you to spit.
Darwin Nominee.
I wonder what sort of peppers he was using?
I used a seranno pepper in some bbq sauce I made and it was pretty hot. But fairly mild on the Scoville chart. I also have some Habaneros in the garden that’ll light your fire. Its about midway up the scale at 100,000 to 350,000 units… I’ve eaten these raw and hole, but not in great numbers, I wonder what this guy ate?
D’oh! Remember what happened to Homer?
I’ve read where hard core heroin junkies get excited to find a powerful fix that brings them to the edge of death. People dying is considered a good thing in their minds.
So, I wonder if there are some people that really like hot foods who will be more intrigued by this development than scared.
They grow chillies in China?
#5
You are either the wisest man in the world for knowing that you know nothing at all or just a plain retard (which proves that anyone can surf the web.)
No soup for him!
I believe it was on this site where i first read about the Bhut Jolokia or ghost chile. 3,000,000 on the scale. hottest chile in the world. Wonder if this was it
From hearing this on the radio, it seems he had an allergic reaction, and died from that, not the hot chile itself. He went to bed and died in his sleep, if I heard it right. Poor guy. Imagine living your whole life, headed for this fate. But then, we all are headed for some kind of death. Most hope for a peaceful one at an old age but nobody wants an unexpected on at a young age. My theory is, when you are sick and tired of it all, and have seen enough, and everything seems to get stupider and stupider, then it is a relief to die. This website is scooting us all to that point.
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Hey. I didn’t mean to double post. I never got the secret question part of the posting. You know, what letters are these: 5TH8
He ate the suace and died but I doubt the capsasan (sp) did it.
The way I see it – if you drop dead – you win!
Maybe it was one of his farts later that night that killed him.
Doesn’t this count for a Darwin Award?
CAPSAICIN CRUNCH
NEWSWIRE–An amateur chef died the day after eating a “superhot” pepper in a bet over who could make the hottest dish.
To this handy rule of measurement I’ll clue you;
It determines if you lose or if you win:
There are things of which a little dab will do you,
And of others which a dab will do you in.
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