Teens are eating food packaging in latest viral challenge

Just a few months after teens overwhelmed the internet with videos of themselves eating Tide Pods, they’ve moved on to another trend that has them biting into banana peels and plastic food wrappers in what’s been dubbed the “shell-on” challenge.

As seen on a Snapchat channel dedicated to the viral videos, teens are not only digging their teeth into a number of different food items, but also ensuring that they take a mouthful of the packaging, or “shell,” that it comes in.

Arizona Central spoke with Liam Hamm, a high school sophomore in Tempe, Ariz., who has participated in the challenge by biting into a bag or carrots – plastic packaging included.

“It just looks funny, because it's not really a shell but people are calling things shells. I guess that is what's funny about it,” he told the Arizona outlet. “It's the Tide Pod challenge minus the fact that it's not dangerous.”

The challenge certainly isn’t as threatening as ingesting laundry detergent. However, as teens start biting into the metal cans that their beans and soda come in, people online aren’t shy to admit that the trend is “stupid.”

Others are saying that at least one part of the challenge is hardly a challenge at all.

Snapchat didn’t immediately respond to Yahoo Lifestyle’s request for comment regarding the channel hosted on its platform. Still, teens are laughing about it and uploading their own videos. So far, Hamm said that his favorite entry has been somebody who bit into a lemon peel and accidentally got lemon juice in their eye.

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• Tide releases new eco-friendly boxed laundry detergent — and the internet can't stop comparing it to boxed wine

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