I Tasted Honda's Spicy Rodent-Repelling Tape
But I scaled the dose up for my own weight and determined that I would need to ingest 36,000 mg a day to approach the Rat Contraceptive dose.
I licked the tape.
It smelled like a Band-Aid-flavored Rockstar Energy drink. It tasted like…heat. The capsaicin was subtler than I expected: nothing abrasive or punishing, just a blushing, ambient warmth like a string of white Christmas lights. There was almost a numbing, mala element, in the vein of a Sichuan peppercorn.
Mouse Tape could have a future in modernist dining circles—you know, for the Willy Wonka, lick-the-wallpaper set. (“The schnozzberries taste like schnozzberries!” “The pepper mouse tastes like a pepper mouse!”)
Hilarious, warm, well written piece about tasting rodent repellent.