• u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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    8 months ago

    “Challenge accepted”
    -Unknown person

    When ingested, the fruit is reportedly “pleasantly sweet” at first, with a subsequent “strange peppery feeling … gradually progress[ing] to a burning, tearing sensation and tightness of the throat.” Symptoms continue to worsen until the patient can “barely swallow solid food because of the excruciating pain and the feeling of a huge obstructing pharyngeal lump.”