Teen who ate spicy tortilla chip died of high chile consumption and had a heart defect, autopsy says
Teen who ate spicy tortilla chip died of high chile consumption and had a heart defect, autopsy says

Teen who ate spicy tortilla chip died of high chile consumption and had a heart defect, autopsy says

"Died of high chili consumption"? Is this actual English? Those words don't seem to fit together that way. I feel like if this were a real thing, Thailand wouldn't exist.
It seems like a more accurate title would be "died of high capsaicin consumption due to a heart defect".
That's still misleading. He died of a heart defect exacerbated by high capsaicin consumption.
Any high stress event could have exacerbated the heart defect.
There was an arstechnica article on this topic TLDR:
The newer 🌶️ pack so much 🥵 that we discovered too much capsaicin can cause feel bad effects in the body.
Thailand wasn’t built with ghost peppers and above. We never had 14million scovilles per bite before.
Edit: found it https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/09/teens-death-after-eating-a-single-chip-highlights-risks-of-ultra-spicy-foods/
Capsaicin is a crystalline structure. Pure capsaicin is 16 million scoville units, and is a crystal. I highly doubt there's any food that anyone is eating that is 14 million scoville units per bite. That would require 87.5% of the food to be crystalline.
What does Thailand have to do with anything?
There is another country that would not exist if high Chile consumption was a real thing.
This is real title gore, the sentence structure barely makes sense too. Unwinding the journalistic word order and even correcting for the missing word "report" and the chilli misspelling, it basically says
The logic is technically correct but the following bizzare statements are suggested (not implied):
So bad it's good. Personally, I like the description text on the video that makes it seem like the teen who was autopsied is speaking:
Editorially, it's a hilarious article. Though, respect to journalists out there. This might be a situation of, "Johnson, I need that tortilla chip death article on my desk in 5 minutes".
edit: Per the correction in the article, I guess AP style guidelines dictate 'chile' instead of 'chili'. It looks super weird to me!
How hot Thai food is, is somewhat overblown. It's the hottest regularly served food in the world, but it's not hotter than some people enjoy. Their "spicy" comes from red and green chili's, ginger, peppercorn, and garlic. By far, the hottest of that group is the red chili's, but those are around 200,000 scoville. I can eat those and not break a sweat.
The one chip challenge was a lot hotter than any Thai food. Hotter than any of the other challenge or worlds hottest "x" that I've tried (friends and stuff gift me these types of things a lot). I've bought a lot of sauces that are hotter than it, and it still didn't have me wishing for something to drink. My mouth just doesn't react to capsaicin as much as the average persons.
It's pronounced "thigh food."
You mean like "died of multiple mosquite bites" doesn't make sense because people live in countries with a lot of mosquitos?
I'm not sure what part of my post indicated I might be serious, but I wasn't. I was just commenting on the title gore with a funny.