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Buldak spicy noodles are back on shelves in Denmark after the food authorities there canceled part of their recall decision concerning the famous Korean instant noodles product, originally issued due to their extreme spiciness and consequent health risks.

The Danish Veterinary and Food Administration announced, Monday (local time), that two of the three products that had been recalled were not harmful to health, based on updated risk assessments.

"Based on the new analysis results and the DTU Food Institute's updated risk assessment, the administration concludes that two of the products, Samyang Buldak 2x Spicy Hot Chicken and Samyang Buldak Hot Chicken Stew, do not contain capsaicin levels as high as those reported by the distributors in the marketing," the Danish administration said in a press release.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Ah so x3 is still banned.

People should be careful around extreme spicy food because it can cause harm.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

do not contain capsaicin levels as high as those reported by the distributors in the marketing

Oh so they're falsely advertising the product. Cool.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They should have advertised it in norway as "so spicy, it had to be banned in denmark"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Take my money.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The thumbnail is somehow a gif with flames over the cup, but then you click it, and the picture in the article does not have the flames.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Weird! Here's the actual image resource that's being loaded, with the flames: https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.koreatimes.co.kr%2Fupload%2FthumbnailV2%2F378743_20240716_162624640_94dbd938333e8.gif

Here's the same resource on the site, with the flames: https://img.koreatimes.co.kr/upload/thumbnailV2/378743_20240716_162624640_94dbd938333e8.gif

Maybe this is a clickbait-type thing, so scrapers will drive more content to the article while it itself remains serious and professional-looking?

Edit: It does look like it loads it for sharing purposes, at least onto Facebook and the like. Not sure how it worked for Lemmy specifically. Maybe an actual web dev can answer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You don't have to use the same image for the feature as the embed preview. The featured image is often the default (and you have a fallback just in case), but you can also choose to replace it for socials. Don't know what this is built in (on mobile) but it could just be using a different file.

I haven't seen this before so grain of salt but I'm assuming it's just to be eye-catching so you click to their site. I'm also assuming you wouldn't want it to be a gif on your own site because of accessibility concerns, but that depends on your requirements which vary pretty widely by country.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

so now the danish govt can sue them due to false advertising?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Apparently it was Danish retailers who made up the stupid high Scoville ratings in the first place. So maybe them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I honestly do not get the appeal of super spicy food like that.

It just tastes of hot. Hot is not a flavour.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Its only 13000 Scoville. Some people consider that medium. A Chipotle pepper is like 10,000, serano 20 thousand. I've been known to make chipotle sandwiches. It's not really a toughness thing, it's a skin thickness deal, plus acclimatization

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Ya actually the buldak stuff is really flavorful, as well as being blast your ass tomorrow morning hot

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Eating spicy food is fun though

Literally, as your body releases happy-hormones to deal with the pain

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Speaking of, Scovilles should generally be listed on packaging, also, when you buy raw chillis, some approximate number of what you can expect. At least for stuff over what 500 or so.

Their tamest ones have ~9000, that's 3x red Sriracha meanwhile there's other products on the shelves where "extra hot" means 2000 SCU no wonder people are calling poison hotlines.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Scoville units are also not a very good method of measuring spiciness (not that I have a better one). Ime I've eaten a variety of things at a variety of Scoville levels and I've found some of the lower ones way, way hotter than some of the higher ones. I've had many, many, many high/extra/killmepls strength hot sauces but still believe a homegrown ghost pepper to be the hottest thing I've ever eaten.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Idk if mine is better but my method is to pay attention to the peppers used (and avoid anything with that fake capsicum bullshit), and just trial and error. After a while you get pretty good at reading it and seeing "oh bhut jolokia, cool. Oooh trinidad brown scorpion, this one will be hot" etc. Tbf though I can eat sauce made with reapers so it's less of a concern for me, I just can't do the fake shit, it tastes like garbage and reapers are plenty hot I don't need the lies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Fat tends to reduce heat perception (capsaicin is lipophilic), and then there's stuff like Szechuan pepper which manages to balance out heat by stimulating the movement sensors. A raw ghost pepper certainly doesn't come with either. Also parts of that thing will be way hotter than others, for the whole thing to have an average of what 1M SCU the pith near the stalk needs to be absolute hellfire. Protip: Always try the very tip first, if it's making you spit fire you don't want to eat the rest :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Lee Nong Shim spicy are the best though. I don't like their Black variety, but standard red spicy rock. I've a feeling they're a connected brand or a relabel.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Naw Nongshim and Samyang are different companies. Samyang is actually the first instant ramen company in SK, while Nongshim is the largest instant noodles company in SK. Completely different ramens too, Nongshim's is powder/veg packet, Samyang's is a red ass hot sauce packet (well, for their flagship, they have more flavors). And Samyang is much hotter, but they're both good!

I like good instant noodles...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Le long bun moth is great too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

So they were given the go, because their false advertising was caught?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Animated thumbnail is awesome, never seen that before on Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Stoned me just stared at it, delayed..

Thanks for saying something or I'd still just think I was losing it 🤪

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