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Tried a bite when a friend bought it a few years back. And... I can totally see it.
My eyes were watering, my nose immediately started leaking, and I think I inhaled a small amount of dust. All while coughing from the pain. Someone with preexisting conditions who was too dumb/peer pressured to wash it down with water/milk could totally die from that. And I would be very okay with an "18 or over" requirement on that.
As for the chip itself: I love spicy food. But shit like this and The Last Dab aren't spicy. They are just "hot". If all you want is the adrenaline rush of poisoning yourself with capsaicin, have fun. But I want my spice to enhance the flavor of what I am eating. Rather than just immediately overload my body. Spices are meant to flavor things.
You're supposed to put a couple dabs of the last dab into a pot of chili. That's when it adds the right amount of flavor and heat. Eating it straight is what gets you.
So dilute it and then mask it with as many other flavors as possible? Sounds about right..
I would need to check, but my general preference for a table sauce to "make food spicy" is in the hundred thousands range, but I've enjoyed a few Carolina Reaper (million-ish) sauces more as an accent to something else (fried foods really are amazing with hot sauces). Like, not gonna be dunking my chips in there on movie night but more than willing to use them to spice up a lazy wings or whatever night.
The Last Dab and similar "hottest sauces in the world" very rarely have a good flavor of their own. Partially because it is really hard to maximize you scoville count without being a REALLY thick (often "grainy") sauce. And partially because you are more or less overloading your tastebuds immediately. So why waste time dialing in on the flavors that chili peppers enhance?
And this is a pretty common refrain with The Last Dab especially. I think even some of the Hot Ones staff have even talked about how it is actually a bad sauce and you should only eat it if you want the pain.
You must be mistaking Last Dab for something else. It’s really hot but it also tastes great. It’s one of those sauces that I can’t eat much of because of the heat but I’m constantly coming back to because the flavor is excellent.