--- title: Viral Video: Man Chugs Tabasco Sauce for Hot or Not App Promotion description: It's also an ad for hot or not… because hot sauce canonical: https://time.com/35409/this-video-of-a-guy-chugging-hot-sauce-shows-exactly-why-you-should-never-chug-hot-sauce/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-24T14:32:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:08:04.245Z og:title: This Video of a Guy Chugging Hot Sauce Shows Exactly Why You Should Never Chug Hot Sauce og:description: It's also an ad for Hot or Not… because hot sauce. og:url: https://time.com/35409/this-video-of-a-guy-chugging-hot-sauce-shows-exactly-why-you-should-never-chug-hot-sauce/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Video of a Guy Chugging Hot Sauce Shows Exactly Why You Should Never Chug Hot Sauce twitter:description: It's also an ad for Hot or Not… because hot sauce. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Video of a Guy Chugging Hot Sauce Shows Exactly Why You Should Never Chug Hot Sauce by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Mar 24, 2014 2:32 PM UTC by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Mar 24, 2014 2:32 PM UTC A classy bro by the name of L.A. Beast thought that it would be a great idea to chug a jug of Tabasco sauce. It wasn’t… because _\*spoiler alert\*_ vomit. To make matters more unsettling, this 10-minute video about hot sauce is actually a advertisement to get people to download the dating/judgement app [Hot or Not.](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/meet-new-people-by-hot-or-not/id639584030?mt=8) Unfortunately this is decidedly not hot. \[[h/t: KSFM](http://ksfm.cbslocal.com/2014/03/22/man-tries-to-drink-a-gallon-of-tabasco-sauce-video/)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/35409/this-video-of-a-guy-chugging-hot-sauce-shows-exactly-why-you-should-never-chug-hot-sauce/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/35409/this-video-of-a-guy-chugging-hot-sauce-shows-exactly-why-you-should-never-chug-hot-sauce/"},"headline":"This Video of a Guy Chugging Hot Sauce Shows Exactly Why You Should Never Chug Hot Sauce","datePublished":"2014-03-24T14:32:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:08:04.245Z","description":"It's also an ad for Hot or Not… because hot sauce.","url":"https://time.com/35409/this-video-of-a-guy-chugging-hot-sauce-shows-exactly-why-you-should-never-chug-hot-sauce/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Internet","viral","Advertising","App"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/35409/this-video-of-a-guy-chugging-hot-sauce-shows-exactly-why-you-should-never-chug-hot-sauce/","name":"This Video of a Guy Chugging Hot Sauce Shows Exactly Why You Should Never Chug Hot Sauce"}}]}] ```