More Food Health Hazards

While I can't find any confirmed deaths from eating at the Heart Attack Grill, the UK Times Online carries the story of a would-be chef who died from eating his own chilli sauce concoction.

Ironically reported in it's "Life and Style" section, the paper reports that Andrew Lee (33) died after eating a super-hot chilli sauce as part of an endurance competition with a friend.

The paper reports that Andrew was in perfect health and had just passed a medical examination at work.

An inquest was told he took a jar of his home cooked sauce around to his girlfriend's house and challenged her brother to see who could eat it.

“Andrew just ate the chillies with a plate of Dolmio sauce,” his sister said.

“He apparently got into bed at 2.30am and started scratching all over. His girlfriend scratched his back until he fell asleep. She woke up and he had gone. It is incredible."

Also incredible is that a postmortem showed Andrew had no heart problems but doesn't seem to have been able to confirm whether he had an allergic reaction to the chillis.

A number of posts on the Times site and at hot sauce sites believe that Andrew's scratching was anaphylaxis due to one or more of the ingredients in the sauce.

Many chilli lovers are concerned that Government may re-act to the death by banning or restricting super hot chili sauces such as Dave's Unltimate Insanity sauce which we carry on our Charcool site or Blairs Mega Death Sauce used on the Hottest Burgers in the World.