From the Sydney (Australia) Morning Herald:

Chef dies after eating 'super hot' chilli
September 30, 2008 - 8:00AM

An aspiring chef died after eating a "super hot" chilli sauce in a
competition with his girlfriend's brother, an inquest in England has
heard.

Andrew Lee, 33, challenged his girlfriend's brother to a contest on
September 19 to see who could make and eat the hottest sauce, London's
The Times reported.

The forklift driver from Edlington, West Yorkshire in England, made a
tomato sauce with red chillies grown by his father, but after eating
it suffered intense discomfort and itching.

Mr Lee went to bed and asked his girlfriend, Samantha Bailey, to
scratch his back until he fell asleep.

When she woke in the morning he was dead, possibly after suffering a
heart attack, The Guardian said.

Paramedics were called to the home but were unable to revive Mr Lee,
who was lying on the floor, The Telegraph reported.

Toxicology tests will be conducted to establish if he suffered a
reaction to the food. Mr Lee was in perfect health and just passed a
medical examination at work, the inquest heard.

Mr Lee's sister, Claire Chadbourne, 29, said he took a jar of the
sauce to his girlfriend's home and challenged her brother Michael, 29,
to a competition to see who could eat it.

"Andrew just ate the chillies with a plate of Dolmio sauce. It was not
a proper meal because he had already eaten lamb chops and potato mash
after work," she said.

"He apparently got into bed at 2.30am and started scratching all over.
His girlfriend ... woke up and he had gone. It is incredible. Who
would have thought he could have died from eating chilli sauce?"

She said a post-mortem examination showed no heart problems.

"He loved cooking for his friends. He always said he wanted to be a
chef but didn't want to start at the bottom."

The inquest was adjourned.

smh.com.au

This story was found at: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/...651028585.html

LeoS wrote:
> From the Sydney (Australia) Morning Herald:
>
> Chef dies after eating 'super hot' chilli
> September 30, 2008 - 8:00AM
>
> An aspiring chef died after eating a "super hot" chilli sauce in a
> competition with his girlfriend's brother, an inquest in England has
> heard.
>
> This story was found at: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/...651028585.html


Obituary for promising young man or advertisement for killer hot chili
sauce?


(Seriously, sounds like an allergic reaction.)


--Lia

LeoS > wrote in
:

> From the Sydney (Australia) Morning Herald:
>
> Chef dies after eating 'super hot' chilli
> September 30, 2008 - 8:00AM
>

>
> smh.com.au
>
> This story was found at:
> http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/...651028585.html




Duuuuuude!! A little late :-)




Subject: Mind those chillis!!
Newsgroups:rec.food.cooking
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:41:26 +1000


They can kill.

http://tinyurl.com/48xfxe

"An aspiring cook who challenged his friend to a chilli-eating contest
died just hours later.

Andrew Lee, 33, had used a bag of home-grown red chillies to make a
super-hot sauce.

The forklift truck driver, who had recently passed a medical at work,
dared his girlfriend's brother to eat a spoonful - then ate a plateful
himself. Shortly after he had a heart attack and died."

--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia


If we are not meant to eat animals,
why are they made of meat?

Julia Altshuler > wrote in
:

> LeoS wrote:
>> From the Sydney (Australia) Morning Herald:
>>
>> Chef dies after eating 'super hot' chilli
>> September 30, 2008 - 8:00AM
>>
>> An aspiring chef died after eating a "super hot" chilli sauce in a
>> competition with his girlfriend's brother, an inquest in England has
>> heard.
>>
>> This story was found at:
>> http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/...651028585.html
>
>
> Obituary for promising young man or advertisement for killer hot chili
> sauce?
>



I'd say an easy entry to the Darwin Awards.




--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia


If we are not meant to eat animals,
why are they made of meat?

Probably an allergic reaction, not dying from just eating hot sauce.

"LeoS" > wrote in message
...
> From the Sydney (Australia) Morning Herald:
>
> Chef dies after eating 'super hot' chilli
> September 30, 2008 - 8:00AM
>
> An aspiring chef died after eating a "super hot" chilli sauce in a
> competition with his girlfriend's brother, an inquest in England has
> heard.
>
> Andrew Lee, 33, challenged his girlfriend's brother to a contest on
> September 19 to see who could make and eat the hottest sauce, London's
> The Times reported.
>
> The forklift driver from Edlington, West Yorkshire in England, made a
> tomato sauce with red chillies grown by his father, but after eating
> it suffered intense discomfort and itching.
>
> Mr Lee went to bed and asked his girlfriend, Samantha Bailey, to
> scratch his back until he fell asleep.
>
> When she woke in the morning he was dead, possibly after suffering a
> heart attack, The Guardian said.
>
> Paramedics were called to the home but were unable to revive Mr Lee,
> who was lying on the floor, The Telegraph reported.
>
> Toxicology tests will be conducted to establish if he suffered a
> reaction to the food. Mr Lee was in perfect health and just passed a
> medical examination at work, the inquest heard.
>
> Mr Lee's sister, Claire Chadbourne, 29, said he took a jar of the
> sauce to his girlfriend's home and challenged her brother Michael, 29,
> to a competition to see who could eat it.
>
> "Andrew just ate the chillies with a plate of Dolmio sauce. It was not
> a proper meal because he had already eaten lamb chops and potato mash
> after work," she said.
>
> "He apparently got into bed at 2.30am and started scratching all over.
> His girlfriend ... woke up and he had gone. It is incredible. Who
> would have thought he could have died from eating chilli sauce?"
>
> She said a post-mortem examination showed no heart problems.
>
> "He loved cooking for his friends. He always said he wanted to be a
> chef but didn't want to start at the bottom."
>
> The inquest was adjourned.
>
> smh.com.au
>
> This story was found at:
> http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/...651028585.html

Kswck wrote:
>
> Probably an allergic reaction, not dying from just eating hot sauce.

Yes, it does seem that way. In these days of seemingly increasingly
common severe allergies such as to peanuts, perhaps we need to get some
training on recognizing and treating anaphylactic shock into regular
first aid classes, and into schools and make epinephrine auto injectors
a standard component of first aid kits everywhere.

Pete C. wrote:

>
> Kswck wrote:
>>
>> Probably an allergic reaction, not dying from just eating hot sauce.
>
> Yes, it does seem that way. In these days of seemingly increasingly
> common severe allergies such as to peanuts, perhaps we need to get some
> training on recognizing and treating anaphylactic shock into regular
> first aid classes, and into schools and make epinephrine auto injectors
> a standard component of first aid kits everywhere.

Perhaps someone was enjoying a peanut a couple of blocks away and the wind
shifted.


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