'Cinnamon Challenge' Goes Viral: Silly Fun or Dangerous?
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2012/03/16 21:02:55
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Forget "planking" ... "kids" of all ages are taking the "cinnamon challenge," a dare to swallow a spoonful of cinnamon without water, The Wall Street Journal reports. Even the governor of Illinois is in on the challenge.
A search for the phrase "cinnamon challenge" pulls up about 31,900 results on YouTube -- and the most popular has almost 10 million views. But the "challenge" isn't all fun and games. "It is an obvious choking hazard and there is a risk of inhaling the dust. This certainly is not advisable," a spokesman from the Food and Drug Administration told the WSJ.
"The kids all know about this from the Internet but the parents have no idea," Arthur Williams, principal at Huron High School in Ann Arbor, Mich., told the WSJ. Williams emailed parents after a student was hospitalized for 4½ days because of lung trouble after taking the "challenge."
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn took the challenge live on a radio show. And Washington Wizards players Nick Young and JaVale McGee were reprimanded for doing it. Even Jimmy Kimmel got in on the joke last month, announcing a new category for the Academy Awards: "Achievement in Cinnamontography." Do you think the "challenge" is dangerous? Or just harmless fun?
DISCLAIMER: We definitely don't recommend trying this at home. In fact, we actually think it's pretty dangerous.
A search for the phrase "cinnamon challenge" pulls up about 31,900 results on YouTube -- and the most popular has almost 10 million views. But the "challenge" isn't all fun and games. "It is an obvious choking hazard and there is a risk of inhaling the dust. This certainly is not advisable," a spokesman from the Food and Drug Administration told the WSJ.
"The kids all know about this from the Internet but the parents have no idea," Arthur Williams, principal at Huron High School in Ann Arbor, Mich., told the WSJ. Williams emailed parents after a student was hospitalized for 4½ days because of lung trouble after taking the "challenge."
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn took the challenge live on a radio show. And Washington Wizards players Nick Young and JaVale McGee were reprimanded for doing it. Even Jimmy Kimmel got in on the joke last month, announcing a new category for the Academy Awards: "Achievement in Cinnamontography." Do you think the "challenge" is dangerous? Or just harmless fun?
DISCLAIMER: We definitely don't recommend trying this at home. In fact, we actually think it's pretty dangerous.
Top Opinion
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relic 2012/03/16 23:16:42
They get to ride on a school bus, I use to walk over a mile in -20 degree weather then stand on a corner freezing my butt off as a patrol boy. They have fast food, 16 screen theaters. Microwaves, frozen instant food.
Most except to be able to drive by the time they're 16 or 17 then get their own car or get driven to the mall or other hang outs whenever they ask. You kiddies got it real easy!
You have caculators and laptops to help with homework. You don't eat right, you get fat and lazy and have way too much free time to whine and bellyache you're bored. Hell, you have no idea how good you got it.
When I was growing up in the 50's fun was maybe once a week having icecream and playing sports. Getting to watch tv for maybe an hour or so AFTER helping around the house. I was expected to do chores and did without complaining. I knew how to cook complete meals by the time I was ten. If my parents were late coming home I MADE dinner! I did the dishes without being told. I went to the store when asked and didn't expect a reward when I got back.
If I had friends ov...
They get to ride on a school bus, I use to walk over a mile in -20 degree weather then stand on a corner freezing my butt off as a patrol boy. They have fast food, 16 screen theaters. Microwaves, frozen instant food.
Most except to be able to drive by the time they're 16 or 17 then get their own car or get driven to the mall or other hang outs whenever they ask. You kiddies got it real easy!
You have caculators and laptops to help with homework. You don't eat right, you get fat and lazy and have way too much free time to whine and bellyache you're bored. Hell, you have no idea how good you got it.
When I was growing up in the 50's fun was maybe once a week having icecream and playing sports. Getting to watch tv for maybe an hour or so AFTER helping around the house. I was expected to do chores and did without complaining. I knew how to cook complete meals by the time I was ten. If my parents were late coming home I MADE dinner! I did the dishes without being told. I went to the store when asked and didn't expect a reward when I got back.
If I had friends over I asked permission. First! If I messed up I was punished. You kids think things are tough. That's a joke. You sniff glue, play choking games. You "brand" each other for kicks. Boys kick each other in the groin for "fun". You whine about bullies instead of learning to defend yourselves. Girls wear makup starting around age 12. You get drunk, high on drugs, many of you have a potty mouth and think it is cool to have sex and think it is no big deal if the girl gets knocked up.
Yeah, things are really hard for you.
I was born in the 70s and didn't have half of what kids have today.
My parents faced the Great Depression, not a mere recession like now. EVERYONE, not just the poor had food stamps during World War Two. It was called rationing.You couldn't just go to the stores and run up whatever you wanted on a credit card, you had to a a coupon for meat, sugar, gasoline.
Don't have it or you ran out, tough luck, wait till next month. You simply did wihout. Your generation doesn't have a clue how rough it can get. They had soup kitchens, bread lines. Unemployment was two, three times what it is now.
This isn't poverty, or even hard times, just a bump in the road.
So that's your feeble excuse for getting high, getting laid, getting drunk, doing stupid things?
Really, then I fear for the future of the human species. You have everything handed to you on a silver platter and you still whine and bitch. Pathetic. Read a history book. You'll learn what real hard times are like.
It won't kill mostly anyone, but still not my idea of "fun".
I also tried doing it with Nutmeg at some point, now that's something I really don't suggest, nutmeg caused me to have a terrible migraine and a nose bleed and it is a lot more rough than cinnamon.
Im probably going to try it myself
Hum, did you know it also has lots of alternative health applications?! It can be used to help with nausea and other stomach problems as well as prevent the onset of the flu.
Not suggesting teens are using that reason but I could like a lot worse things they could be daring each other to do. So while it's not smart, I also would not really call it dangerous.
Wretha
That my favorite cinnamon challenge to watch on Youtube. xD