Paqui, the maker of extremely spicy tortilla chips marketed as the “One Chip Challenge,” is voluntarily pulling the product from shelves after a woman said her teenage son died of complications from consuming a single chip.
The chips were sold individually, and their seasoning included two of the hottest peppers in the world: the Carolina Reaper and the Naga Viper.
Each chip was packaged in a coffin-shaped container with a skull on the front.
Lois Wolobah told NBC Boston that her 14-year-old son, Harris Wolobah, ate the chip Friday, then went to the school nurse with a stomachache. Wolobah said Harris — a sophomore at Doherty Memorial High School in Worcester, Massachusetts — passed out at home that afternoon. He was pronounced dead at the hospital later that day, she said.
Until sales of the product were suspended, Paqui’s marketing dared people to participate in the challenge by eating a chip, posting pictures of their tongues on social media after the chip turned it blue and then waiting as long as possible to relieve the burn with water or other food.
The challenge has existed in some form since 2016.
You’re supposed to put a couple dabs of the last dab into a pot of chili. That’s when it adds the right amount of flavor and heat. Eating it straight is what gets you.
So dilute it and then mask it with as many other flavors as possible? Sounds about right…
I would need to check, but my general preference for a table sauce to “make food spicy” is in the hundred thousands range, but I’ve enjoyed a few Carolina Reaper (million-ish) sauces more as an accent to something else (fried foods really are amazing with hot sauces). Like, not gonna be dunking my chips in there on movie night but more than willing to use them to spice up a lazy wings or whatever night.
The Last Dab and similar “hottest sauces in the world” very rarely have a good flavor of their own. Partially because it is really hard to maximize you scoville count without being a REALLY thick (often “grainy”) sauce. And partially because you are more or less overloading your tastebuds immediately. So why waste time dialing in on the flavors that chili peppers enhance?
And this is a pretty common refrain with The Last Dab especially. I think even some of the Hot Ones staff have even talked about how it is actually a bad sauce and you should only eat it if you want the pain.
Are you sure you aren’t talking about Da Bomb? The Last Dab isn’t that bad.
Possible? I am not a fan of either, but “Da Bomb” is a lot hotter so that would probably line up.
You must be mistaking Last Dab for something else. It’s really hot but it also tastes great. It’s one of those sauces that I can’t eat much of because of the heat but I’m constantly coming back to because the flavor is excellent.