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UK Cook Eats Own Hot Sauce, Dies

Contest with girlfriend's brother ends in tragedy

By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff

Posted Sep 29, 2008 2:37 PM CDT

(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.”

An Italian woman makes a tomato sauce.
An Italian woman makes a tomato sauce.   (AP Photo)
A farmer reacts after eating a Bhut jolokia, or ghost chili pepper  during his lunch at Changpool in the northeastern Indian state of Assam.
A farmer reacts after eating a "Bhut jolokia," or "ghost chili" pepper during his lunch at Changpool in the northeastern Indian state of Assam.   (AP Photo)
Hot peppers may have contributed to the death of Andrew Lee, 33.
Hot peppers may have contributed to the death of Andrew Lee, 33.   (AP Photo)
Ornamental chilis.
Ornamental chilis.   (AP Photo)
Hot peppers may have contributed to the death of Andrew Lee, 33.
Hot peppers may have contributed to the death of Andrew Lee, 33.   ((c) foodistablog)
Hot peppers may have contributed to the death of Andrew Lee, 33.
Hot peppers may have contributed to the death of Andrew Lee, 33.   ((c) post406)
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