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FDA Warns Against Cooking Chicken in NyQuil. For Real. (wsj.com) 130

Posted by msmash from the closer-look dept.
The Food and Drug Administration is warning people not to abuse nonprescription drugs as part of social-media challenges, including cooking chicken in NyQuil. From a report: The regulator issued a warning cautioning the public that social-media challenges where people misuse nonprescription medications can be dangerous or even fatal. It pointed to a recent challenge where people cook chicken in NyQuil or similar medications. The agency says that boiling a medication can make the drug more concentrated and that inhaling a medicine's vapors while cooking with it could cause a person to ingest a high amount of the drug. In the case of the NyQuil-chicken challenge, the FDA says a person could hurt their lungs. "The challenge sounds silly and unappetizing -- and it is," the FDA said. "But it could also be very unsafe."
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  • The FDA pushes down the average IQ of Americans (Score:5, Informative)

    by rcb1974 ( 654474 ) on Thursday September 22, 2022 @03:26PM (#62905479) Homepage
    Because without the FDA, people who do dumb stuff like this would win Darwin awards much more often, and some of them wouldn't even live long enough to pass their stupidity onto the next generation.

    • Nothing indicates lower IQ more than social media. (Score:5, Insightful)

      by Fly Swatter ( 30498 ) on Thursday September 22, 2022 @03:31PM (#62905505) Homepage
      The FDA wouldn't have to do this if people addicted to social media weren't so gullible.

      • The chicken and nyquil thing feels more like a joke than an actual thing that is happening. Maybe a couple of actual cases where people tried this, versus thousands of people laughing that someone is dumb enough.

      • The FDA wouldn't have to do this if people addicted to social media weren't so gullible.

        If people weren't dicks in general the FDA wouldn't have mandated foil caps [arhsnewspaper.com] on medicine bottles.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by ceoyoyo ( 59147 )

        Yeah right. People used to buy "medicine" from some random dude in a wagon passing through town. And dangerous fads aren't new. Kids in the 30s started swallowing live goldfish. Kids in the 70s decided eating lightbulbs was a good idea.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by torkus ( 1133985 )

        The FDA wastes time on this stuff because THEY are so gullible.

        Same with tide pods. No one actually ate them ... well, until the warnings became memes and a few did it for fame specifically because of how stupid the situation was.

        Just like no one's giving children THC edibles for halloween.

        Just like no one was cooking chicken in nyquil (for real...?) until the obviously stupid warnings made it a good counter-culture joke

        There's a lot of safety stuff we could focus on but instead the country wastes bandwidt

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by fermion ( 181285 )
      Two fallacies in this. First, not everyone dies. Some just require lifelong taxpayer funded medical care

      Second, the Darwin awards only apply if you have not yet procreated. So while some parents might kill their kids as well, some wonâ(TM)t.

      This last point is why we donâ(TM)t need gun control. If you kill your kids that is just like killing yourself. And as guns tend to kill kids, it works out.

    • Re:The FDA pushes down the average IQ of Americans (Score:5, Funny)

      by CourtOverseer ( 10158817 ) on Thursday September 22, 2022 @04:49PM (#62905819)
      Low Sodium Chicken Noodle Soup 4 c. Chicken Stock 1 lb. Chicken 4 oz. NyQuil 1 Tide Pod 1 oz. Butane 1 Package Egg Noodles 1 Medium Onion (Chopped) 16.9 oz. Diet Coke 1 Package Mentos Mix ingredients in bowl until Tide Pod is dissolved. Put soup into water tight Tupperware Bowl and seal tightly. Place in Dishwasher and run through "Heavy" cycle. DO NOT... DO NOT! DO NOT!!! put soap in your dishwasher for this! Dish soap is toxic and may contaminate the soup. Just using water is more than enough to get things cooked.

      • Re: (Score:3, Funny)

        by Applehu Akbar ( 2968043 )

        People who believe in ivermectin should definitely try this recipe. It may be the only way to restore the Republican Party I knew and loved.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by gweihir ( 88907 )

      Yep. Although IQ is only partially inherited and that not reliably. It is unbelievable that there are enough people this stupid and this uneducated that a public warning is required.

    • This. NyQuil Chicken cures COVID19 just like Ivermectin, but Dr. Fauci doesn't want people to know! Pair with UV light up the butthole for best results.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Chas ( 5144 )

      They should be pushing MORE stupid, gullible people to do this.

      Because such people pollute our gene pool.

      If you can't recognize why shit like this is "bad", just die now.
      Leave the planet before you curse us with next-gen morons.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Shaitan ( 22585 )

      An couple generations of kids raised by shrinks and the liberal indoctrination machine think men can get pregnant, eat tide pods, do this dumb shit and have record setting emotional instability and suicide rates. Coincidence? Not even remotely.

      This is exactly what happens when you rapidly supplant thousands of years of evolved child rearing and parents with skin in the game with a bunch of echo chamber produced pseudoscience spouting counselors and a combination of failed and untested ideology over a few sc

      • Exactly. You nailed it ðY' ðY'OE ðY(TM)OE

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by Shaitan ( 22585 )

          I'm not saying the time tested methods of raising kids are optimal but they have a very high success rate which is proven. What has been done to education in the US since control was nationalized and psychology has infected our schools is akin to Mao's great plan to reform agriculture to end hunger.

          • Re: (Score:2)

            by rcb1974 ( 654474 )
            Great analogy; Mao's disastrous cultural revolution compared to US cultural revolution which encompasses publicly funded liberal indoctrina...I mean "education"

  • Darwin at work (Score:5, Funny)

    by real_nickname ( 6922224 ) on Thursday September 22, 2022 @03:27PM (#62905483)
    We can expect offspring of the survivors to be ultra resistant to NyQuil vapors.

    • Re: (Score:3)

      by jwhyche ( 6192 )

      I know you can not see this but *double star trek face palm."

      You really can't make this shit up. Carlin was right,

      Think of how stupid the average person is and realize half of them are stupider than that.

    • IIRC NyQuil has acetaminophen, which means even if you don't inhale the vapors, you're probably looking at heavily overdosing on that, which means bye-bye liver. I doubt the acetaminophen vaporizes, it probably just gets more concentrated as a solid.

    • These are likely the offspring of the Robitussin generation. On a walking shortcut through a vacant lot in Plano, Texas around 30 years ago, I spotted dozens of empty Robitussin bottles.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Briareos ( 21163 )

      We can expect offspring of the survivors to be ultra resistant to NyQuil vapors.

      Idiocracy got it all wrong - people will be drinking NyQuil instead of Brawndo...

  • Whoever starts things like this needs to be charged with endangering people or some such charge. Then again, I have little concern for people who fall for things like this or the Tide Pod challenge, or anything that is obviously dangerous.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by skrugen ( 229044 )

      "And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in one minute, and is there a way you can do something like that by injection inside, or almost a cleaning. Because you see it gets in the lungs, and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it’d be interesting to check that. So you’re going to have to use medical doctors, but it sounds interesting to me, so we’ll see."

      If anyone interprets that as, "I should drink Clorox bleach" they are the idiot

      • If anyone interprets that as, "I should drink Clorox bleach" they are the idiot

        Yes, they are.

        Some brainstorming from someone who is not a doctor, so may not know what is safe or not, should not be taken as medical advice.

        He was pretty much thinking out loud "hey, the disinfectant kill the virus super fast, maybe we can figure out something that works like that inside the body". And he is not completely wrong for thinking like that - antibiotics exist and they do kill germs (bacteria, not viruses though) and there is also medicine that kills parasites.

        And if anyone listens to that and

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by gweihir ( 88907 )

      Definitely not. If I were stupid, I would now cry "Censorship!", but really, there is a minimal level of insight you can rightfully expect of people. Anybody being stupid enough to try this recipe is far below that level but there really is no reason to make special allowances for them.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by bjwest ( 14070 )
        Censorship, as in the way you're not allowed to yell 'fire' in a crowded theater? Well, you can yell it, but you will be charged with a crime, as you should in cases like this when you cause harm to others due to your speech.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by torkus ( 1133985 )

      You can't though.

      Freedom of speech includes stupid shit too.

      p.s. no one is falling for this or the tide pod challenge...except the media and FDA apparently.

      Honestly, just thinking about how nyquil tastes to begin with, I can't imagine anyone actually eating even a single bite.

  • I have to think that a warning like this from the FDA will only make more people aware of this nonsense, and thus even more people will be trying it... or even worse, wondering what other over the counter drugs they might "intensify" via cooking.

    Treating such an obvious joke as a serious thing, is like fact checking obvious sarcasm.

    • Re: (Score:1, Insightful)

      by iggymanz ( 596061 )

      People who do such things after plain warning deserve what they get.

      Just like people who engage in unprotected anal sex with multiple random strangers and getting unusually aggressive case of monkeypox in regions not normally affected are not an emergency.

      • People who do such things after plain warning deserve what they get.

        Although I agree with that I think there's some moral obligation not to bait people into maybe trying, even If people that try it basically do deserve the consequences because they were warned...

        I have to wonder if this will produce some new variant of crack that is even worse, like roasted pumpkin spice crack. :-)

    • This is one major problem with social media. One person makes a video, and then, because of "engagement" on that post, it suddenly is a "trend," even though there is little evidence of other people attempting a similar challenge. In fact, most comments are likely about how gross and stupid and dangerous this activity is, but that just elevates the "trend" even more.

      These algorithms completely distort perceptions of how prevalent something actually is. This is a major problem with social media and I don't

    • Darwin's making a list, and checking it twice...

  • What I want to know (Score:2, Insightful)

    by istartedi ( 132515 )

    What I want to know is, who upon considering the taste of cough syrup thinks to themselves, "I bet chicken would taste great sauteed in that"?

    • Probably a huge overlap between people that like sleepy chicken and people that think basalmic vinegar and seltzer taste like Coca-Cola. I accidentally used the wrong jar of olives for a dirty martini once and vinegar in any drink tastes pretty bad.

      • I accidentally used the wrong jar of olives for a dirty martini once and vinegar in any drink tastes pretty bad.

        I'm trying to figure out what wrong bottle of olives you were going for....?

        A dirty martini is using the brine from a jar of olives...which is a salty, vinegary liquid.

        What type olives were you trying to use that was not packed that way...?

        Or, am I misunderstanding what you posted and were trying to do...?

        • I've got two jars in my fridge. One is stuffed martini olives. The ingredients don't list vinegar, just olives, water and salt. The olives themselves taste slightly like vinegar but not the brine. Then there's a jar of Greek olives that lists red wine vinegar on the label. That's the one I bought by accident. The olives aren't bad, but the brine is not drinkable.
          • Is it much different from pickle juice? Because pickle juice is great for recovery after high-intensity exercise.

          • I've got two jars in my fridge. One is stuffed martini olives. The ingredients don't list vinegar, just olives, water and salt. The olives themselves taste slightly like vinegar but not the brine. Then there's a jar of Greek olives that lists red wine vinegar on the label. That's the one I bought by accident. The olives aren't bad, but the brine is not drinkable.

            Ahh..ok, gotcha.

      • A hint of pickle juice can be quite tasty in a Bloody Caesar.

    • It's about "wInNiNg tEh tIk tOk cHaLlEnGe", hoping to make it through the Jackass type stunt so they can brag about, um, chicken in Nyquil.

      Yeah the bar for laccomplishment has been set real low and the whole class gets a gold star no matter what.

  • Cocaine in a fizzy carbonated sugary drink is it.

  • It is impractical to release a specific FDA warning against everything idiotic that people might do. They will always be playing catch-up to the latest idiocy.

    Just cover it all with a single blanket PSA "Don't do dumb shit"

    • That hasn't worked in a very, VERY long time. Besides, our government likes nothing more than popping up new recommendations, new regulations, and new laws. Maybe we'll get a nice bonus federal law out of this. "NyQuil Chicken = federal prison" has a nice ring to it.

      • No reason for a new law on this one. If you accidentally kill someone with your NyQuil Chicken, you'll be going to prison. Maybe not federal.

        • Come on, where's your imagination? Maybe they can add it to the known terrorist activities list or something? Pop it for more than murder.

          • Re: (Score:2)

            by HiThere ( 15173 )

            Not terrorism, conspiracy. And they have documented proof of the conspiracy to ... poison? commit suicide? There's bound to be something that would fit. So they don't need any new law, since it's already illegal. (Of course, this wouldn't be for convicting the person who killed themselves, but rather those who aided and abetted. Like the one that posted the challenge.)

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by gweihir ( 88907 )

      Just cover it all with a single blanket PSA "Don't do dumb shit"

      Take a cold hard look at your fellow citizens. Do you thing a warning like that would really work?

  • Let's go ahead and rid the planet of these idiots who dreamed up cooking chicken in Nyquil. I'm sure we can quickly get trending "How to Cook Chicken in Casoline". Bound to be a hot topic: #HotChicken.

  • pizza (Score:2)

    by guygo ( 894298 )

    "Honey you better pick up a pizza. This NyQuil stuff just isn't working out."

  • We aren't going to make it, are we?

  • . . . this is a self-correcting problem.

    • Re:As with the Tide Pod thing. . . (Score:4, Interesting)

      by leonbev ( 111395 ) on Thursday September 22, 2022 @04:00PM (#62905635) Journal

      I still can't help but think that these TikToc "challenges" are part of some Chinese psyops program to dumb down American youth by slowly poisoning them.

      By the time these kids reach adulthood, everyone left in charge will be so brain-damaged that they won't remember how to operate our military stockpile. Then they can just roll in the tanks uncontested.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by tlhIngan ( 30335 )

        I still can't help but think that these TikToc "challenges" are part of some Chinese psyops program to dumb down American youth by slowly poisoning them.

        I thought that's what (anti)social media was for. Except granted, it works a lot slower but is just an effective.

      • I dunno, man... dumbing down American youth is... redundant? :)

  • TikTok - Bytedance - CCP (Score:5, Insightful)

    by waspleg ( 316038 ) on Thursday September 22, 2022 @03:55PM (#62905603) Journal

    That is all. Why we allow known enemy state actors to fuck with our kids is beyond me.

    • That is all. Why we allow known enemy state actors to fuck with our kids is beyond me.

      Makes no difference. They do it with impunity on your own domestic social media as well.

  • What about Lysol? Can we cook with that?

    Endust or Pledge?

    How about Pepto-Bismol?

  • Ahead of their time (Score:5, Funny)

    by PPH ( 736903 ) on Thursday September 22, 2022 @03:57PM (#62905621)

    TV dinners, I'm feelin' kinda rough
    TV dinners, this one's kinda tough
    I like the enchiladas, and the teriaki too
    I even like the chicken, if the sauce is not too blue.

    - ZZ Top

  • >"The challenge sounds silly and unappetizing -- and it is," the FDA said.

    So, they actually tried it.

  • ... because I read the headline as "FDA Warns Against Cooking Children in NyQuil. For Real."

    • Well, ain't it just like the gub-mint to get all up in my business again? If I wanna cook my children in Nyquil, that should be my right. (heavily /s)

  • They are interfering with Darwin and the survival of the fittest (or in their case, just fit).

    Clearly these challenges are meant to cull the heard, so quit trying to stop them from trying things like this...

  • we live in a post-darwin world (Score:5, Insightful)

    by argStyopa ( 232550 ) on Thursday September 22, 2022 @04:33PM (#62905759) Journal

    ...where literally people just think up stupid dangerous stuff and then challenge other people to do it. So they do.

    Lord of the Flies was a terrible tale about the inhumanity amoral children can visit upon one another when unconstrained by social mores and society.

    Our society of glorified adolescents isn't even that mature (although they can certainly gin up a lynch mob when they feel like it), but rely on the simple stupidity of others to ape them in their often self-abusive antics.

    They don't really even have to say "I dare you".

    Fscking morons.

  • The Tide Pod Turkey was far more delicious.

  • What's not to like? It give the chicken a nice blue-green color and has a nice sleepy taste. I like mine with a side of dramamine and a benzo kicker.

  • This was a stupid meme post with a photo of raw chicken in some blue liquid made for the lulz, I don't know how long ago but I'm pretty sure it was several years.

    When I saw an actual headline about an actual FDA response to it a day or two ago I almost choked. If it hadn't been for all the other incredibly stupid shit that's happened over the last several years preparing me for this moment, it might've done me in.

    --
    We will soon have the option to harvest our farts, so we can post & comment on sta

  • , this. Why don't they do the jump off a high cliff with no gear "challenge"? That would ensure a cleaner gene pool and put a smile on Chuck Darwin's face.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by HiThere ( 15173 )

      I prefer free-form skydiving (i.e. no parachute). But be sure there's a haystack below, because that's known to keep people who jump from an airplane without a parachute safe. Or maybe the haystack isn't needed: https://www.independent.co.uk/... [independent.co.uk]

  • But no, these kids today are too good for that!

  • Let natural selection work as intended (Score:3)

    by AmazingRuss ( 555076 ) on Thursday September 22, 2022 @06:38PM (#62906187)
    We're up to our armpits in morons.

  • This, more than anything in the past oh, 10 years, proves we've reached Peak Stupid in the USA.

    Delivered to you not by TV, not by Radio, not by Pulpit or Movie Screen -- but by Social Media.

    • This, more than anything in the past oh, 10 years, proves we've reached Peak Stupid in the USA.

      Unfortunately I don't think it anywhere near the peak yet.

  • In the past, these morons would be fighting for their country in some far-off battlefield or down a coalmine. I'm not sure society has progressed that much with all this free time!
  • Tiktok is really pushing some dangerous advice here. I suspect the government will ask them to stop suggesting that people think for themselves.

  • FDA warns about the dangers of putting Brawndo on crops.

  • ...the more I believe we're living in Heinlein's "Crazy Years."

    EARTH-EATING FAD MOVES WEST: CHICAGO PARSON EATS CLAY SANDWICH IN PULPIT
    "Back to simple things," he advises flock

  • There are so many ways to be an idiot (*cough* Tide pods *cough*) that you cannot possibly list them all. Let it happen, it can only improve the species.

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