I would assume, but I don't think ramen is more popular with the middle eastern segment than anyone else. Its at least not a stereotype. This decision is just genuinely baffling. It's as if someone in the FDA ate the too spicy food, had a reaction and on that basis decided to ban it, instead of just saying "not for me".
If "too much for some" is a criteria now, then we can't really sell anything people are allergic to.
Egon
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That guy must have been over exaggerating, people here put too much pepper on their food. My grandmom serves plates that are completely black. On the other hand I do have a friend who can taste if chili flakes have been near the plate...
Yeah that was the food administration's post. They say that "too much capsaicin has had kids in Germany admitted to the ER" but they dont specifically talk about samyang or even just ramen. Just some vague product with a lot of capsaicin. They also mention that its marketed to kids and that it's hard to know how it will affect their children, which is like???
It's just so weird because there's a pretty decent culture for eating spicy food here as well. The usual go-to nighttime drunken dish is pita or durum, served with a large bowl of chili on the side so you can slather it yourself.
There's a large middle eastern population here as well.
It's so weird. I'm legit pissed, the 2x spicy were perfect for me and now they're gone because of someone screaming "won't somebody please think of the children?"
Why not get rid of dairy products? A lactose intolerant child might eat them. What about meat? Eating it raw is bad for you, so that's a danger as well.
Sure, but I also struggle to understand people who purchase items that say "VERY SPICY" eat the items and experience that they are very spicy, finish the dish, get an upset tummy and then go "The government should make this illegal, I am at no fault here."
I would kind of understand making those artificial 100k ones illegal, but when you're also just going after the regular one? Wack. Like the 3x one is way too much for me, but I don't think it should be illegal to sell.
Yeah it's wild to see the people saying this is a good thing. "Chilis just aren't suited for danish people!" I guess all the middle eastern people who emmigrated here can just get fucked then
I like to put an egg or vegan cream substitute in the broth, helps a lot and gives a nice taste
In Germany some unspecified number of children have previously gotten food-poisoning equivalent symptoms from ingesting too spicy chiliproduct some have apparently been admitted to hospitals. In Denmark there's apparently a tiktok-trend of challenging each other to eat Buldak spicy noodles. Some "confounded customer" decided to ask the danish FDA wether it could really be true that it was legal to sell these spicy chili ramen packets since some kids in germany at one point ate chili and got admitted to the ER. The danish FDA decided that because some children in Germany at one point got an upset tummy from eating too much spice (from ramen? who knows, they don't say) it cannot allow the sale of "incredibly spicy instant noodles packages" like... Spicy ramen. The consumer asked about the ones in pink packaging which also aren't spicy ramen so?
I could kind of understand the 3x one, maybe, but they've banned the regular one as well.
lmao perfect
en svensker.
Yeah apart from eating a Carolina reaper, I've never heard of anyone who ACTUALLY needed to be admitted to the ER. An upset tummy can hurt a lot and be scary for a child, but its not dangerous. Especially not with ramen because if its dangerous then you wouldn't be able to finish a bowl of it, right?