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In mayo joybuster news: Denmark has forbidden the sale of "spicy" noodles for being too spicy (x.com)

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[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Very much so. ~~It's because a parent complained that their child ate one "with pink packaging" WHICH ISNT EVEN ONE OF THE SPICY ONES.~~ And now there's scores of parents applauding the initiative. I feel like a libertarian crying about a "nanny state".

Edit: no child ate one and got sick, see further down the thread for the even dumber story

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Did something happen to the kid? I don't understand what is happening here unironically

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

In Germany some unspecified number of children have previously gotten food-poisoning equivalent symptoms from ingesting too spicy chiliproduct some have apparently been admitted to hospitals. In Denmark there's apparently a tiktok-trend of challenging each other to eat Buldak spicy noodles. Some "confounded customer" decided to ask the danish FDA wether it could really be true that it was legal to sell these spicy chili ramen packets since some kids in germany at one point ate chili and got admitted to the ER. The danish FDA decided that because some children in Germany at one point got an upset tummy from eating too much spice (from ramen? who knows, they don't say) it cannot allow the sale of "incredibly spicy instant noodles packages" like... Spicy ramen. The consumer asked about the ones in pink packaging which also aren't spicy ramen so?
I could kind of understand the 3x one, maybe, but they've banned the regular one as well.