It Burns

Hot and Spicy Soup Burned a Hole Through a Man’s Stomach

Comfortably numb.
Comfortably numb.

Though we’ve already heard about the London line cook who crumpled after eating ghost chiles, the teenage girl who froze her stomach with liquid nitrogen cocktails, and, of course, the Scottish guy who ate too many Brussels sprouts and almost died, the Year in Vengeful Meals would not be complete without an eleventh-hour appearance from Chinese Death Soup, so here goes: A 26-year-old man with no previous stomach troubles was hospitalized in Wuhan, China, after he enjoyed hot pot at a local restaurant. The unnamed man ordered the spiciest, “numbing hot” soup, vomited blood, and doctors say the chile- and Sichuan-peppercorn-addled soup “burned right through his stomach tissue.” This allegedly happens often enough that medical professionals have started calling such cases “hot pot patients” after they’re sorted out in the ER. [RocketNews via Foodbeast, Earlier]

Hot and Spicy Soup Burned a Hole Through a Man’s Stomach