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'Chorizo from hell' badly burns Dutch tourists

Alex Dunham
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'Chorizo from hell' badly burns Dutch tourists
“All hell broke loose then. The flames were like something you’d see in an explosion,” said a witness. Photo: Elentir/Flickr

Two Dutch tourists have been flown back home after a flambéed chorizo they ordered in a restaurant in southern Spain caused them second-degree burns on much of their faces and upper bodies.

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The middle-aged couple had sat down to eat at a restaurant in Nerja (Málaga) on the night of the 25th of March when the incident occurred.

They ordered the traditional Spanish dish Chorizo al Infierno, or Hell-style Chorizo, a flambéed Spanish sausage cooked with alcohol.

But when the dish arrived, the Dutch couple noticed the flames were almost out and the dish was going cold.

“They ordered more alcohol and then moved the chorizo around,” one witness told local daily La Opinión de Málaga.

“All hell broke loose then. The flames were like something you’d see in an explosion.”

The pair were rushed to the local hospital Comarcal de la Axarquía by ambulance, where they were treated for “second-degree burns on hands, face, arms, shoulders and thorax”.

Hospital authorities have estimated that up to 20 percent of the man’s body was burned in the incident, 15 percent in the woman’s case.

The couple are now recovering from their burns in a hospital in Holland. 

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