DON’T TRY ANY OF THIS AT HOME, OKAY? JUST TAKE MY WORD FOR IT..

 

Do you ever wonder, "How much of this can you accidentally ingest before I die?" Yeah, so do I. For your safety (and enjoyment) here's a bunch of stuff you should only enjoy in small quantities or not at all. Some things just don't belong in your mouth.

Cinnamon – 40 Tablespoons

One tablespoon of cinnamon has resulted in thousands of videos of people coughing and choking on YouTube. Thankfully it’s not the 40 tablespoon challenge, which could result in fatal benzaldehyde poisoning.​

Laundry Detergent – 17 Cups

Tide laundry detergent doesn’t want to be inside you: drink half a cup and you’ll have sudsy regurgitations. Clean, yet so dirty. Manage to keep 35 times that down and the detergent’s acids can cause fatal organ damage. 

Gorilla Glue – 4 litres

If you try drinking four 1 litre bottles of Gorilla Glue you’ll get high on glue fumes, then everyone will look like this gorilla man, then you’ll die.

Toothpaste – 13 Tubes

Swallowing a little toothpaste while brushing your teeth will make you feel uncomfortable — swallowing 13 tubes of toothpaste will kill you.

Water – 7 litres

You can poison yourself with water: drink over 4 litres in an hour and you’ll be irritable, drowsy, suffering from a headache, and behaving strangely. If you consume another 3 litres in that hour, your nervous system will shut down.

Potato Skins – 40 Milligrams

Spoiled potatoes are seriously dangerous. Medical cases report cardiac dysrhythmia, nightmares, headaches, and dizziness from eating just over 40 milligrams of the stuff! Eat more than three times that and you can die from central nervous failure.

Chewing Gum – 404 Packs

Chewing a pack of gum a day for eight months can cause severe weight loss and diarrhoea, all attributable to excess build up of a compound called sorbitol. Gum can also be fatal if you chew 404 packs in a single sitting.

Blue Cheese – 10 kg

 

Blue cheese will make you smell a little ripe. Thank Penicillum Roqueforti for that. Its putrid fragrance and rich flavour comes with enough toxin to kill you if you eat about 10 kilograms. It's definitely one of the stinkiest ways to die.

Painter's Caulk – 3.5 kg

Not that we're judging, but why would you coat your digestive track with the stuff you put around your tub and sink? Whatever your reason, if you eat seven-and-a-half pounds you'll be six feet under.

Carrots – 18 kg

If you find yourself eating 24 carrots a week (roughly two kilograms) for eight months, you’ll turn orange and resemble Ernie, a condition called Carotanemia. Eating approximately 215 carrots (18 kilograms) can cause carotenoid poisoning, which is fatal.

Simple Green – 1.5 cups 

Simple Green can be fatal, albeit organic. Just 1.5 cups can cause central nervous system failure.

Pantene Hairspray – Two Cans

Drinking two cans of Pantene Pro-V Frizz Control Anti-Humidity Hairspray will stop your liver, and you will die.

 Centrum Vitamins – 61 Bottles

You really have to work to get weird with Centrum multivitamins: 39 tablets brings on iron-related stomach ulcers, vomiting, and reduced kidney function. Eat 6105 tablets, or 61 bottles, and you're likely to die of kidney failure.