"I felt I was too hot. My mind, my head. The engineer said he quickly sprang into action: I contacted my wife - I said there's a problem with the sauce. Manz documented his alleged ailments in court filings, saying his tongue burned, his face turned red, and his heart rate soared. He said he suffered gastrointestinal distress and mouth sores that lasted for days."
"The taco chain was started by three friends from California and Tijuana, and now has ten locations across Manhattan. Los Tacos No. 1 has a self-serve salsa bar with a red salsa, a green salsa and pico de gallo. They are not labeled to indicate their spiciness."
"I bit straight into the green-smothered taco. There was a flicker of fire on my tongue, and some numbness on my lips. But then it passed."
A German engineer named Faycal Manz filed a lawsuit against Los Tacos No. 1 in Manhattan federal court after consuming their green salsa during a 2024 visit to Times Square. Manz reported severe physical symptoms including a burning tongue, facial redness, elevated heart rate, gastrointestinal distress, and mouth sores lasting several days. The taqueria, a California and Tijuana-founded chain with ten Manhattan locations, operates a self-serve salsa bar with unlabeled salsas of varying spice levels. A journalist visited the same location and ordered identical items to test the salsa's actual spiciness level, experiencing only mild heat that quickly subsided.
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