The box looked less like a snack and more like a warning from a horror movie: black, coffin-shaped, and designed to make one promise. Inside was a single tortilla chip dusted with peppers so hot that the real challenge was not eating it. The challenge was refusing relief afterward.
For years, Paqui’s One Chip Challenge turned that promise into a social-media ritual. Eat the chip. Do not drink. Do not eat. Film the reaction. Then prove how long you can endure it.
The spectacle was perfectly built for the internet.
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