Paqui carolina reaper madness one chip challenge tortilla chip reviews

Some coworkers and I recently all purchased the one chip challenge. It was a terrible experience.
First, I LOVE my spice and heat. I enjoy seeking out spicy foods to challenge my tongue, so I felt conditioned going into this challenge. Overconfident from past heat challenges, I thought this would be a short sprint of napalm to my palate.

Right as I crunched down the chip some dust immediately hit the back of my throat. It tasted wretchedly old. Like old enough that it was the first item on Amazon warehouse shelf.

The heat from the chip didn’t fully hit me until about 20 seconds after I had choked and swallowed on the mound of old dust. It was definitely a fiery opponent. An intense rush of heat flooded my head. Lips tingled and burned simultaneously. Hot sweats gathered on my forehead, upper lip, and neck. Then, as I felt heat transpire in my pits I knew my Old Spice I applied 4 hours earlier stood no chance for the wave of sweat coming it’s way.

Overall, the challenge itself was ok. It lasted about 12-15 mins in total. It’s the horrendous after effects that earned this the single star review. About an hour after the challenge was completed I had a brief victory meal. All of the sudden, I started to get a massive upset stomach. My insides were at war. I wanted to throw up and first couple trips to the bathroom I struggled to purge this inner demon from my stomach.

Then, on about the 4th trip to the bathroom the full effect of nausea set in, and I knew it was time to purge. But I could only make it to the sink. As it came up into the sink it burned my esophagus and piled up in my nasal cavity. I didn’t want to blow my nose because I knew exactly what would happen. The burning in my nasal cavity was so intense I had no choice but to blow my nose. Out came the residue of the familiar Carolina Reaper dust from the left side of my nose. It was like an uncontrollable California wildfire.

After ralphing in the sink I laid on the floor. My throat, mouth, and left nostril inflamed. My body fully sweating and writhing in pain. It felt like I was a coerced extra on the most recent Lil Nas X video. Laying on the floor I pulled the bathroom towel from the rack above me and buried my face in to calling to any religious deity I could think of from Jesus to John Wick to Harambe to please save me.

Then, I felt my stomach bubbling again. I knew round two of the hellish exorcist was upon me. I was able to drag my body up to the toilet to prep to hurle this demon into the sewage abyss once and for all. It was almost an exact replay discharging out of my mouth and left nostril. Again, I felt the flames of hell in my throat, mouth and nose. Broke out into another sweat and lay back down on the floor.

As the time ticked past the intense sensations dulled. It then dawned on me that round 3 would most likely exit out the other end. So, here I sit hours later, tail end on the commode absolutely flamethrowing into the bowl. Retelling the ptsd I gained from a %*#*ing chip.

Next time, just know I’d rather throw myself down a never ending staircase.

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