A diner was filmed as he was given a fried snack at a fast food restaurant in Curitiba, Brazil, having said how good it looked, but then when he took a bite it exploded in his face
Brazil: Chicken nugget explodes in customer’s mouth
Footage shows a fried snack exploding like a “bomb” as a customer at a fast food restaurant took a bite causing burns needing hospital treatment.
The unnamed visitor to the shop in Curitiba, in the Brazilian state of Parana, had been eyeing up the giant chicken nugget which had only just been placed on the food display and commented on how good it looked. CCTV video footage showed the full incident of the exploding snack on December 13 where the unsuspecting customer was left in shock and the owner looked equally concerned over what happened.
He is first given the snack by a female member of staff with it wrapped in a serviette and then touches it presumably to check that it isn’t too hot. But as he sinks his teeth into the deep-fried coxinha it explodes sending out a shower of its red-hot chicken filling with some of it sticking to his face like napalm.
The snack shop owner, Christian de Souza Amaral, stands open-mouthed in shock as the dazed customer tries to wipe the burning filling from his face. It later emerged that the customer, not named in local media, had been treated for burns to his mouth. Amaral explained: “It went off with a sound like a tyre bursting. I was in shock watching the filling sticking to his face. It looked like a bomb.”
He added: “We had already fried the coxinha and placed it in the display case. This guy was already there, he was a customer, and he said, ‘The coxinha looks nice, doesn’t it?’ and asked for one. “It had only come out of the fryer about five minutes earlier when we handed it to him.” Bar staff gave the customer emergency first aid but recommended he go to hospital. It is unclear, though, why the snack exploded so violently.
Coxinha nuggets are a popular Brazilian treat made from shredded chicken covered in breadcrumbs and batter which is then deep-fried. Bioscience expert Dr Laura Marise explained that if not handled properly, air can build up in the snacks and burst under pressure.
She told local media: “Air can get trapped between the dough and the filling and, during the frying, it may have expanded, but not enough to break through the dough. But when it was bitten, the coxinha must have released all that pressure suddenly, which caused the explosion.”