India, Sept. 25 -- Laundry isn't lunch. The Tide Pod Challenge started as a joke. Those laundry pods really looked "too delicious to resist". Then American teenagers actually bit into them in 2018. The result: Poison control hotlines were flooded, ERs were swamped with cases of chemical burns, seizures, and respiratory failure. More than 12,000 cases of exposure were logged. Tide pivoted with opaque packaging, bittering agents, and a PSA from NFL star Rob Gronkowski. Utterly foolish.

Leave cinnamon alone. In the centuries gone by, White men would colonise and pillage for cinnamon. Now they film themselves as they attempt to eat the powdered stuff by the spoonful. The problem? Cinnamon isn't water-soluble. Saliva can't break it down, leav...