Mystery Vapors Identified As Mexican Food

koin ^ | Posted: Sept. 24, 2002

[InvisibleChurch]

Mystery Vapors Identified As Mexican Food

Office Closed For Days

PRINEVILLE, Ore. -- Mexican food apparently caused strange vapors at a Bureau of Land Management office in Prineville. The BLM office was closed for three days after several employees were taken to the hospital. All of the workers have since recovered.

The vapors were identified as capsaicin -- a compound found in hot peppers or chilies.

No one knows how the vapors got into the building. The investigation continues.

[InvisibleChurch]

[PoorMuttly]

And I told them to put mace on my burrito.

Sorry.

[brat]

ROFL This is too funny!

[Cagey]

I hope they open one of these in New Jersey.

[riley1992]

Jersey's idea of Mexican food.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

This is news? Texans have known that Mexican food causes "mystery vapors" for a very long time..........;^)

[Ditter]

I (half) watched a program the other night about "spontaneous human combustion". Seems like there was something about Mexican food & vapors that caused it. Wish I had paid more attention.

[InvisibleChurch]

see now? when you're in line at taco bell, you'll be asking yourself, "Is it the burrito or the enchilada?" You take your life into your own hands when you ignore cable television

:)

[P7M13]

ssshhhh! It is our secret weapon to dominate the world...Eventually we will have a huge Taco Night to Feed the World's Hungry and while everyone is incapcitated from the food, we will take over and have Pax Texana!!!!!!

Free Lone Star for everyone and a Cabrito in every BBQ Pit.

t

[Ditter]

How true! Do they make a pocket sized fire extinguisher? %;9}

[foolscap]

This article isn't very clear. Was it Mexican food that caused the vapors or was it capsacin itself? If it was Mexican food it seems they would not need to continue to look for the source. Maybe someone brought in their lunch or there is a restaurant near by. If it is plain capsaicin then someone could have released pepper spray in the office. That is a very different thing indeed and something to be concerned about.

[COB1]

Sounds like someone opened up a jar of hot sauce!
I made some one time with chili petins and habeneros that you could use to etch glass.
The finish on my stainless steel Vent-a-Hood was permanently destroyed.
'Course the next morning after indulging in a big helping of that the night before, my hemorrhoids were permanently destroyed, also, along with a goodly portion of where they had resided.

[P7M13]

LOL

TMI !!!

t

[boris]

The only ethnic foods I will not eat are Mexican and Japanese.

Mexican food is dog food;
Japanese food is cat food.

--Boris