14 Japanese Students Hospitalised After Eating India’s Bhut Jolokia Potato Chips

by BulgingMoose

23 Comments

  1. Total_Philosopher_89

    13 girls and one try hard boy. They were kids!

  2. UtterlyUnimpressed_

    That’s not that many students

  3. Conch-Republic

    I highly doubt this is real. Times Now is an Indian rag.

  4. Kind-Drop-611

    if they cant handle it why did they eat it? japanese cuisine doesn’t have a lot of spicy foods ;-; bhut jalokia/ghostpepper is hard for some adults even

  5. Salty_Intentions

    Hospitalized for ghost pepper chips? 😂

  6. GoBackToLeddit

    If this was in America, the restaurant would have been shut down, the owner sued, and the product discontinued.

  7. Disastrous-Resident5

    It’s always the butt jolly kia

  8. hoopopotamus

    It’s been a long time since I’ve been in Japan but my recollection is that spicy is not really a big thing there. There are a couple of exceptions of course but it’s rare. No one for example is putting Tabasco on things, let alone ghost pepper hot sauce. You can find some pretty manageable chili oils for some things I guess.

    There was a curry chain restaurant I went to in Osaka where you could pick a heat level up to 10. If you hadn’t been there before they would discourage you from going past 5. 5 was really not much in terms of heat to my palate but in North America spicy food seemed way more common. 10 might have been hot but I didn’t get to try it.

    The other somewhat spicy options I remember were:

    tantanmen (ramen). Not much heat but a little, and it was very delicious. I wish more ramen shops made this stuff back home.

    A particular kind of mustard I only ever saw when buying a boiled egg from the Oden container. That was a proper sinus clearing hot mustard, and not in the wasabi sense.

    The occasional store-bought kimchi had a bit of kick, but most weren’t terribly hot

    This one bag of snack I bought once. I think it was habanero rings? Black bag, angry red cartoon pepper with a jack-o’-lantern face on it. I’ve bought a bag recently that looked like that since and don’t find it hot. But the one I got in Japan was either much hotter, or a year there got my tastebuds lazy.

    All this to say, ghost pepper chips are probably a bridge too far for the average Japanese palate. I am not surprised that it scared kids to the point they thought they were in danger

  9. YouDaManInDaHole

    What a great ad for those chips!

  10. commissarcainrecaff

    They will not enter Sto’va’kor for they are weak and without honour.
    History will forget them and they bring dishonour to their House.

  11. PhysicalLetterhead77

    You can’t just post this without telling me where I can buy them!

  12. Impressive-Soup-3529

    No doubt it wasn’t the spice but the excessive amounts of foot skin that was somehow coating the crisps.

  13. Smirknoff

    Best ad for spicy snacks I’ve ever seen. Where can I get some?

Write A Comment