Something festive to not only cleanse the palate but maybe singe it a little. Maybe even send you to the hospital with third-degree palate burns. And when the doctor asks you what caused it — perhaps a strong dose of vinegar? — you look him in the eye and you tell him, “No. There was no vinegar in that dip.”

A million YouTube views for this one in just three days, by the way. What’s our leading theory of what happened here? The artichoke fermented? Someone, either the woman who made it or an impish child at home, laced it with something like wasabi? It could be that what we’re watching is a case of workplace violence against hated co-workers. These people are Canadian; this is as nasty as they get.