F.D.A. Warning on NyQuil Chicken Alerts Many to Existence of NyQuil Chicken
Cooking poultry in cold medicine is a bad, dangerous idea that few people seemed to be aware of until the government warning attracted media coverage.
[...] In recent weeks, some people on TikTok, Twitter and other sites discovered years-old videos and images of people pouring blue-green NyQuil, a nighttime cold medicine, over chicken breasts in a pan or pot. It was, to be clear, a dangerous idea that no one should do — it could lead to consuming unsafe levels of the product, and over-the-counter medicines should be used only as directed.
But it was not clear if people were actually trying it themselves in significant numbers; most people commenting were expressing horror at the concept or making jokes about it. There have been no reports of hospitalizations or deaths related to NyQuil chicken, a tongue-in-cheek recipe that first surfaced in the notorious 4chan forum in 2017 and also received a spike of attention in January.
Still, the new flurry of interest in recent weeks caught the attention of the Food and Drug Administration, which issued a straight-faced notice on Sept. 15 advising against participating in what it called "a recent social media video challenge."
"The challenge sounds silly and unappetizing — and it is," the agency warned. "But it could also be very unsafe."
Also at Reuters.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Friday September 23 2022, @07:20AM (14 children)
Why does the FDA feel the need to save stupid people from themselves? Let the problem correct itself for this generation and the ones to come.
(Score: 5, Informative) by MostCynical on Friday September 23 2022, @10:03AM (3 children)
they aren't just dying at home - they are clogging up emergency services and hospitals..
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 2) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Friday September 23 2022, @10:17AM (1 child)
In fairness, tTat's hardly a valid argument: if hospitals only treated people who had health problems despite leading exemplarily healthy and safe lives, hardly anybody would receive treatment. Every obese person, smoker, skydiving enthusiast or fast car owner would be turned away on the basis that what they do isn't rational from a self-preservation standpoint and they shouldn't burden the health care system with the consequences of their life choices.
But in the case of the Nyquil chicken recipe, it takes a particularly profound level of nincompoopness to even think "Hey I read that on the internet and I'm gonna try it too", let alone eat it.
(Score: 5, Informative) by RS3 on Friday September 23 2022, @03:21PM
Although I share your sentiment, the problem is they'll probably live, albeit with (even more) brain damage, and become even more of a drain on society.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Saturday September 24 2022, @04:23PM
(Score: 4, Insightful) by DannyB on Friday September 23 2022, @02:43PM (8 children)
After all of the misinformation about Covid and vaccines, I must agree with you. Let them Darwin themselves. No point endlessly arguing with them about facts, medicine or science.
Nevermind that a single dose of liquid NyQuil has 650 mg of acetaminophen. Drink it all down!
Best used with Hydroxochloriquine and Ivermectin.
In the meantime I got my 5th covid shot (3rd booster) and a flu shot one weak ago because I let the government FORCE me to get a GOVERNMENT VACCINE! OMG! The microchips! The 5G!
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(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 23 2022, @05:19PM
You forgot the bleach! It doesn't work without the bleach!
(Score: 2) by stretch611 on Friday September 23 2022, @07:56PM
Bill Gates knows where you live.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday September 23 2022, @08:09PM (1 child)
Feel free to lie, if it suits your propaganda agenda, but... with 3 boosters, 5 jabs total, have you avoided getting unpleasantly sick with COVID?
Personally, I am pretty well convinced that I got Omicron, but when I tested ~40 hours after first symptoms, the nasal swipe came back negative, and after that I felt like such crap I didn't bother to test again, being so close to the end of the Paxlovid window.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 24 2022, @06:43PM
I tested positive on the test at home. I went to a walk-in place to find out whether it is worth getting Paxlovid and they tested me there, and i was negative. However, since the false positive rate is really really low, we were all convinced I was positive (and my symptoms caught up with me the next day).
(Score: 3, Insightful) by darkfeline on Saturday September 24 2022, @12:35AM (1 child)
I honestly can't tell if your post is sarcastic or not. You are proud of getting multiple boosters in even fewer years, of a supposed vaccine that bypassed standard testing and approval procedures on the premise that it provided immunity? I've seen less caricatured memes than your post.
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday September 26 2022, @02:53PM
I am not being sarcastic about the danger of acetaminophen overdose, nor about getting a 5th covid shot and a flu shot.
It suddenly occurs to me to wonder if it constitutes malpractice if the doctor failed to warn me to stay within 5G service areas after getting the vaccine?
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(Score: 2) by ncc74656 on Monday September 26 2022, @03:07AM (1 child)
Four more and you get a free toaster.
If you survive all those killer jabs.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday September 26 2022, @02:30PM
That toaster darn well better be internet cloud connected!
It is unacceptable if I cannot set the toast darkness from my phone.
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(Score: 2) by kazzie on Friday September 23 2022, @06:00PM
I think the FDA (and counterparts) are also trying to save stupid people from other people. Especially the unscrupulous ones.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Opportunist on Friday September 23 2022, @08:02AM (13 children)
I mean, seriously, get back to protecting the sane people from companies cutting corners to make a quick buck at the expense of people and let the idiots that want to off themselves have a fighting chance to achieve their goal.
Anyone a tide pad for desert?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 23 2022, @08:12AM
The government can't stop us from consuming the forbidden sweet and sour chicken!
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday September 23 2022, @10:06AM (11 children)
The problem comes when the "challenge" as presented somehow appeals to a segment of the population, like eating laundry soap pods that happen to look like colorful candy...
While you might think we are better off without the sort of people who might find the idea of NyQuil chicken appealing or at least intriguing, and I would tend to agree I think for most of them, you might also be surprised at some of the people who turn up sick as a result... Much like Rush Limbaugh hooked on painkillers, even "mature responsible adults" are human too.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 23 2022, @10:28AM (8 children)
I saw a friend down most of a bottle of cough syrup to get a DXM high. How bad could a plate of NyQuil chicken really be?
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday September 23 2022, @11:26AM
I'll wait for the report rather than test for myself, but between the heat of cooking and some of the broths that are injected in market chicken as "flavor enhancers" I would not be shocked if there is an unnecessary interesting reaction in some cases.
Who knows, it might be a perfect sub for the next oxycontin replacement and FDA is trying to head off another popular drug out of their purview, like cooking Sudafed to make meth, right?
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(Score: 2) by driverless on Friday September 23 2022, @12:52PM
Same here, wondered why a friend had a whole case of cough syrup bottles in his bedroom until I realized that it'd be for the DXM content. Never seemed to do him any harm...
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday September 23 2022, @02:46PM (3 children)
Enough of that NyQuil liquid will have a fatal dose of acetaminophen. (650 mg per dose) But I'm done arguing with people who deny reality.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 23 2022, @03:28PM
No you're not! It's your mission and you'll keep trying to deliver reason, uh, er, in your unreasonable way...
Nice sig though, thanks.
(Score: 3, Informative) by JoeMerchant on Friday September 23 2022, @08:12PM (1 child)
So, 10+ doses of NyQuil is a fast track to liver damage: https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/002598.htm [medlineplus.gov]
Cheaper than a case of Scotch, too.
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday September 26 2022, @02:31PM
And you don't need to show ID to buy it.
If you buy it one bottle at a time, it won't even be suspicious.
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(Score: 2) by cmdrklarg on Friday September 23 2022, @03:05PM
NyQuil contains acetaminophen, which can mess up your liver if you take too much.
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(Score: 2) by Reziac on Saturday September 24 2022, @02:26AM
I had no idea idiots were doing this, but apparently it's been codified for the idiot community:
https://tripsitter.com/dxm/ [tripsitter.com]
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 2) by Opportunist on Friday September 23 2022, @11:22AM (1 child)
You might want to find a better example for "mature" and "responsible". And "adult", unless age alone qualifies for that description.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday September 23 2022, @11:29AM
I have always agreed with you, but his 1990s audience (love 'em or hate 'em you gotta admit there were a lot of 'em) held him up as an example of a good man, and a good man to follow.
It's easier to lead when you are literally so deaf you can't hear your followers.
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Multiass on Friday September 23 2022, @08:31AM (4 children)
Jan, what was in that chicken? Oh, my god. It's full of Nazis!
(Score: -1) by Multiass on Friday September 23 2022, @08:37AM (1 child)
-20 karma in seconds. Some kind of record.
(Score: 2) by kazzie on Friday September 23 2022, @06:03PM
A broken record.
(Score: -1) by Multiass on Friday September 23 2022, @08:47AM
Why is my post modded "spam"?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 23 2022, @03:34PM
Username checks out.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Rich on Friday September 23 2022, @10:10AM (2 children)
I had a cold coming on and thought a bit of spicy chicken might be suitable for the situation and used my last power to put on a pot of red thai chicken curry. As the chicken went into the pot, a vile stench came from it that nearly made me puke. The only similar smell I knew was from Amoxicillin. I thought about what to do, because I felt too weak to get different food. While thinking, the stench began to vanish. I decided to take the risk, because some poultry antibiotics would hit me not worse than having to get something else. In the end, all stench was gone, the curry tasted fine - and, not expecting that, I was perfectly back to normal the morning after. :)
(Score: 5, Funny) by Username on Friday September 23 2022, @01:43PM (1 child)
I like my chicken with a side of tide pods.
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Friday September 23 2022, @03:37PM
I thought they were desert, you know, cleanses out that bad chicken?
(Score: 4, Funny) by ilsa on Friday September 23 2022, @01:45PM (2 children)
Who makes Nyquil again? I need to go buy some stock...
(Score: 4, Funny) by kazzie on Friday September 23 2022, @06:05PM (1 child)
No need to buy stock: just boil the chicken bones.
(Score: 1) by MonkeypoxBugChaser on Saturday September 24 2022, @01:33PM
Don't. I lost my shirt. You'd have to be clucking mad to invest
(Score: 4, Informative) by Freeman on Friday September 23 2022, @02:13PM (3 children)
Looks like the trolls won another one! Seriously, the source was 4chan. TidePod Challenge was a thing though, so . . .
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(Score: 2) by bussdriver on Friday September 23 2022, @04:06PM
Somebody should do some Q-anon posts about how great nyquil chicken is against covid...
(Score: 4, Funny) by darkfeline on Saturday September 24 2022, @12:39AM (1 child)
I think 4chan should be some sort of IQ test before people are allowed to do any journalism or even browse the Web. If you can't browse 4chan for a week without being trolled you should be banned for your own safety. That should at least ameliorate the deplorable decline of journalism quality in the last decade.
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(Score: 3, Touché) by VLM on Saturday September 24 2022, @04:25PM
I think they're already doing that test, and failing. Remember the "OK hand sign"?
(Score: 2) by Tokolosh on Friday September 23 2022, @03:27PM (2 children)
Where is the randomized, peer-reviewed science that proves Nyquil chicken is more bad than good?
I thought so,
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 23 2022, @03:39PM
This is the Internet. You must be new here.
Next thing you'll be telling us you actually read the summary?
(Score: 3, Informative) by Thexalon on Friday September 23 2022, @04:42PM
Probably in any of the papers that determined what the maximum safe dose of Nyquil was. Because when you have something poisonous, mixing it with something else (in a way that doesn't produce a known chemical reaction) won't make it safe.
And if you don't understand that, I invite you to flavor your next meal with cyanide.
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