UK Cook Eats Own Hot Sauce, Dies

(Newser) – A budding British cook died last week after eating his own spicy tomato sauce, the London Times reports. Andrew Lee, 33, challenged his girlfriend’s brother to a contest, arriving with a jar of the sauce, made with chilies his father had grown. After eating it, he felt itchy and discomfited, and fell asleep while his girlfriend scratched his back. The next morning he was dead.

“He apparently got into bed at 2:30 am and started scratching all over,” the victim’s sister said. “His girlfriend scratched his back until he fell asleep. She woke up and he had gone. It is incredible. Who would have thought he could have died from eating chili sauce? We don’t know of anything else that could have caused his death. The postmortem showed no heart problems.”
Source: Times (UK)