Buldak 2x is a regular (~1.5x a month) go to of mine. It's strongly spicy sure but I definitely felt like the thread above was heralding it in as some great destroyer of mouths and that hot praise was over the top too me. Selling the premise too hard. I would never have guessed it's so worthy of note, much less controversial/bannable.
“so high that they pose a risk of the consumer developing acute poisoning”
That seems odd. I would expect it to be potentially dangerous from extreme irritation, but I wouldn't think that was "poisoning". An amount required to be "poison" would be inedible.
Perhaps he's speaking loosely, or the definition of "poison" used by regulators is different from what I expected.
I think of poisoning as more systemic, less topical. Capsaicin acts as soon as it touches something.
I don't know if it enters the bloodstream or not, but since people eat it without more than a surface irritation, I would think that a quantity enough to cause systemic damage would be far too concentrated to touch, much less eat.
You know who likes spicy things? Americans! Last time I was there I had a hard time finding a ramen that wasn't spicy. I mean, I like peppers and pepper sauce, but over there is ridiculous. By the way, how the heck did jalapeños made their way all the way to Alaska? Every single food had jalapeños on it; pizza, burger, breakfast burrito... At some point I had to ask them to remove jalapeños from my food cause it was burning my back end when going to the bathroom (another thing I learned is real, I thought that was a joke).
It is definitely regional. I read in a book about grocery stores that the stores only stock about 10% of items that are uncommon for a given market area. Everything else is based on priory buying history, which is why you might find different items in different parts of the country for the same grocery brand; i.e. Kroger.
The 2x Ramen is one of the foods I pack into my BWCA camping trips. We started with the standard ramens, started experimenting with finds on Amazon, and then discovered the wonders within our local Asian store. The 2x, for me, is just on the edge of what I can handle. I was not even aware there was something hotter.
You would not want to get the paste on your fingers and rub your eyes. No different then a proper hot chicken wing sauce.
I saw some Bulwak noodles in the local Asian food shop but didn't buy them because my wife doesn't tolerate spiciness anymore because of health reasons. None of these noodles had omitted "spicy" on the package so I left them.
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Buldak 2x is a regular (~1.5x a month) go to of mine. It's strongly spicy sure but I definitely felt like the thread above was heralding it in as some great destroyer of mouths and that hot praise was over the top too me. Selling the premise too hard. I would never have guessed it's so worthy of note, much less controversial/bannable.
I have not tried the 3x, did not know it existed.
That seems odd. I would expect it to be potentially dangerous from extreme irritation, but I wouldn't think that was "poisoning". An amount required to be "poison" would be inedible.
Perhaps he's speaking loosely, or the definition of "poison" used by regulators is different from what I expected.
Fatality is not necessary to be a poison.
I don't know if it enters the bloodstream or not, but since people eat it without more than a surface irritation, I would think that a quantity enough to cause systemic damage would be far too concentrated to touch, much less eat.
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I live in New England, and at my grocery store most of the ramen flavors are quite tame.
You would not want to get the paste on your fingers and rub your eyes. No different then a proper hot chicken wing sauce.
They were too hot for me, but I seen it as a novelty item so bought more packs to dish out to friends.
Any chemical in the wrong dosis is potentially hazardous to your health.
There was the "One chip challenge" some time ago where the reaction to the chip caused the death of a child with an existing heart condition.