The Wasabi Challenge

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So what is the wasabi challenge?

The wasabi challenge involves a spoon and some wasabi, the participant has to try and eat a spoon full of wasabi without the use of any liquids to help wash it down. If you don't know what wasabi is, it is a plant that is usually ground up into a paste and used as a condiment.

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Is it that simple?

If you have ever tried wasabi it was probably in a small proportion compared to the food you were eating it with, which is for a very good reason. Wasabi is very hot, and if eaten alone in a large amount will have you reaching for water. Depending on how good you are with hot foods you can up the amount to see who can eat the most wasabi in one go or race to see who can get it down first.

Personal Experience

I haven't tried this challenge myself only because having had wasabi before at a Japanese restaurant, even with food it was too much to handle for me. I think if I was to try this challenge I would not last long before my mouth would start burning and my face would turn bright red.

The Banana + Sprite Challenge

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Now this ones a mouth full.

The Banana and Sprite challenge is not for the faint hearted. The trick to conquer this challenge is to simply not throw up 🤢. The brave soul who undertakes the challenge must eat two bananas and then quickly chug a 1L bottle of Sprite and then hold it down.

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What is believed to make this difficult is that the Bananas and the Sprite have a chemical reaction in your stomach, forcing you to spew all of it up (you can look it up, there are a ton of videos, if you are into that kind of thing...). What is actually happening is you are filling up your stomach with too much too fast as it can only hold around 2 cups of food/liquid at once, so your body decides to send it back to where it came from.

Personally I'm not game enough to try this but if your eyes are bigger then your stomach or you love the smell of vomit in the morning, this is the challenge for you!