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Chef dies after making ultra-hot sauce for chilli-eating

dailymail.co.uk — An aspiring cook who challenged his friend to a chilli-eating contest died just hours later. Andrew Lee, 33, had used a bag of home-grown red chillies to make a super-hot sauce. The forklift truck driver, who had recently passed a medical at work, dared his girlfriend's brother to eat a spoonful - then ate a plateful himself, then died.

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  • binky79, on 09/29/2008, -8/+761Was it made with the merciless peppers of Quetzaltenango? Grown deep in the jungle primeval by the inmates of a Guatemalan insane asylum?
  • meruru, on 09/29/2008, -0/+454They say he carved the spoon himself...from a bigger spoon.
  • akchrs, on 09/29/2008, -5/+296What's better, death or having to poop those out 8 hours later. I'd choose death.
  • CasinoJack, on 09/29/2008, -0/+256IT'S CHAOS OVER HERE - SEND HELP QUICK!!!
  • Xebozone, on 09/29/2008, -5/+218Thats'a spicy meat'a ball'a!
  • fani, on 09/29/2008, -3/+148Most of these stories seem to stem from the UK these days. Whats going on over there ?
  • nesagwa, on 09/29/2008, -4/+115"home-grown red chillies"

    I know its the dailymail and all, but honestly, specifics please. Red bell peppers are red chillies.
  • deeboe, on 09/29/2008, -2/+108"Don't quit your day job chief, what ever that is."
  • Sunflare670, on 09/29/2008, -3/+109"Mister, you don't want to drink wax!"
    "Or do I?"
  • zombiecarlin, on 09/29/2008, -4/+75How does the Daily Mail still get on Digg? Have we not learned their stories are complete rubbish yet?
  • joebaloney, on 09/29/2008, -2/+69So basically, they don't know why he died but he ate some spicy sauce the night before. Okay, moving on.
  • chesterjosiah, on 09/29/2008, -4/+66One of the comments on Blair's 16 million reserve hot sauce
    http://www.sweatnspice.com/429-13.htm

    Milo on 2007-09-29
    I bought some of this and I put three flecks in a large bowl of chili. Of course my mouth felt like it was going to dissolve and my eyes were watering, but then the pain hit my stomach. I felt this intense burning then I started ***** large amounts of blood. Right when this happened my eyes started pouring with tears and then I started vomiting at first it was chili, but then I started vomiting blood also. My girlfriend woke me up when she got home about 2 hours from when I first went into the bathroom. I woke up on the floor covered in blood, *****, and vomit. I was rushed to the hospital and at the time I really didn't even remember what had happened. Apprently I tore something in the lining of my stomach and I have been on a restricted diet ever since. All I can say is be careful with this it really can kill you.

    LOL! What a nutcase! You're supposed to put ONE spec into a huge POT of chili. This bozo put THREE into ONE BOWL.

    Just goes to show how important it is to know WTF you're putting into your body.
  • boneit, on 09/29/2008, -2/+58People keep digging tabloid trash for the daily mail, a minor daily rag in the UK generally bought by women.
  • drmangrum, on 09/29/2008, -1/+54You just gotta love sensationalized media. At no point in that "article" is there a direct link by a medical expert between the hotness of the sauce, or the sauce at all, and his heart attack. Just another reporter trying to start a panic.
  • Nevermor7, on 09/29/2008, -6/+49Johnny Cash- Best guest star ever.... "I am a coyote..."
  • SierraAlpha, on 09/29/2008, -0/+42CALL TODD!!!
  • serif69, on 09/29/2008, -1/+40England could have started a space program.
  • boneit, on 09/29/2008, -4/+41It couldn't have been that hot. When I used to have regular chili sessions with a friend, the food would put us into a mild hallucinating mode for want of a better description. I was told out bodies were in pain and we were getting endorphin rushes. Home grown peppers in the UK won't be hot, they need heat and sun to ramp up the scovilles, something the UK climate can't really supply. I doubt he had a grow farm in his attic.

    Poor chap probably had a bad reaction. We'll have to wait for the pathology report.
  • Spandia, on 09/29/2008, -14/+52"The next morning, his girlfriend Samantha Bailey, a mother of four, found him unconscious. "

    He really knows how to pick 'em.
  • nesagwa, on 09/29/2008, -7/+43"But as he went to bed after the contest, Mr Lee, of Edlington, Doncaster, had complained of itching, she added."

    And he died of cardiac arrest.

    So he was probably allergic to what he put into the sauce.

    If the stuff could kill you so easily no restaurant would ever be able to serve "death" type sauces.

    I should bury it for being a really ***** stupid story. Tabloids. Stop posting them.
  • Reziarfg, on 09/29/2008, -1/+36Simpsons did it.
  • MachineMessiah, on 09/29/2008, -1/+36"This is just your memory. I can't give you any new information."

    Johnny Cash FTW!
  • DivisibleByZero, on 09/29/2008, -3/+37Should have drank a candle first.
  • oldhick, on 09/29/2008, -5/+39Have some compassion. A lot of people eat a lot of spicy foods. Most people don't really see death as a potential outcome... Mistakes happen.
  • cloudberries, on 09/29/2008, -0/+33It depends on your sources. If you take the Daily Mail as a source of "news" then yes, it's full of crap and sensationalist propaganda. Unfortunately, a great deal of people do take the Daily Mail as a source of news.

    I mean, even The Sun's a higher quality paper. Mainly because it has ***** in it.
  • mtwoar, on 09/29/2008, -7/+36That's hot.
  • FcukAllYall, on 09/29/2008, -9/+38Speechless...I don't know whether to say, "wow, I feel sorry for his family" or just call him a dumbass? I'm confused here.
  • rajkalex, on 09/29/2008, -1/+29Irrelevant. It looks like he had an allergic reaction to the peppers.
  • DarkPrincess74, on 09/29/2008, -0/+28Wait, dogs can't talk. *ruff*
  • chrissku, on 09/29/2008, -2/+30Eat up and we'll tell ya.
  • tenspeedogbb, on 09/29/2008, -0/+27Look at him, he think's he's the Pope of Chilitown
  • xtothepowerofx, on 09/29/2008, -1/+27well... there's very little i COULDN'T do if dying was an acceptable outcome.
  • Herminator64, on 09/29/2008, -2/+27Oh, Daily Mail. Where press standards are things of myth.
  • RaynOfDarkness, on 09/29/2008, -1/+25Ah well, at least he won!
  • yaryarhumphump, on 09/29/2008, -4/+28thats a 5 alarm chili
  • g00mba, on 09/29/2008, -4/+27such misfortune for the family but...am I the only one that would like to have just a litle zip of that sauce? must be great with tacos
  • powatom, on 09/29/2008, -1/+23What British people have YOU been talking to? We are far more informed about government matters and general news than most other countries. Anybody who sticks to dumbass tabloids is obviously not going to get a full picture - but the vast majority of people I know read many sources - broadsheets, websites (And government websites), union literature (the UK is very unionised, people know what their company is up to, what the government is doing to help or hinder them etc), anything really.

    The BBC doesn't ever really focus on anything except big news, government issues, and foreign affairs. Sure, the regional BBC news does focus on semi-trivial stuff occasionally, but News 24 is very good for anything non-trivial.

    The private TV news sector is pretty crappy, sure - but I really don't know anybody who spends that much time watching those, except while waiting for some other program to come on.

    As for the comments about authoritarian measures - don't assume we're not pissed off. There is very little we can actually do until the next general election. The ID card may turn out to be a step too far, so I wouldn't discount some radical activism going on fairly soon.
  • powatom, on 09/29/2008, -0/+2211 exclamation marks.
    0 question marks.

    What a genius!
  • an0nymous, on 09/29/2008, -5/+26He got off easy. Can you imagine trying to pass that?

    "...and it burns, burns, burns, that ring of fire"
  • powatom, on 09/29/2008, -1/+22That's because the Daily Fail is gaming Digg. They must hire people to digg this trash up.
  • copypastry, on 09/29/2008, -1/+21I hope he didn't brain his damage...
  • MysticSavage, on 09/29/2008, -0/+20I would prefer either submerged in a vat of Glenfiddich or possilby orgasmed to death by Danity Kane.
  • inactive, on 09/29/2008, -4/+23hot off the presses at dailymail!
  • Chubaccatron, on 09/29/2008, -0/+18Funny fact: Creating a hot sauce that can kill a man, and then to actually end up being the one it kills, automatically elevates you to Paul Revere legend status here in Texas.
  • rugabug, on 09/29/2008, -0/+18Damn straight.
  • inactive, on 09/29/2008, -1/+17Well, you realize that most of Digg's news is rubbish too, right?
  • xGeneric, on 09/29/2008, -1/+17Holy *****!

    I just read all the user reviews... wow, just wow. I never imagined you could get a spice ingredient that's so hot, it renders you unconscious, lying in a pool of vomit and feces.

    I don't know if you could put a Simpson's episode of Homer eating this stuff on regular cable TV. That would be one hell of an episode though!
  • kitsua, on 09/29/2008, -1/+16Except, possibly, exclamation marks.
  • Blydchyld, on 09/29/2008, -3/+17Habenero's are for Girls.

    Naga's is where its at.
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