Remember olestra?

I ate one Olestra chip on a dare when they first came out and woke up the next morning with no voice.

No infection, I wasn't sick, I just had no voice.

It was the first time I ever lost my voice.

It took like a week to come back.

And after that, every time I did get a cold, for like a solid year, I'd lose my voice.

One time I was at a concert and my sister could hear me losing my voice in real time.

When I went to the ENT he told me my problem was I talked too much.

Thus solidifying my intense mistrust of a lot of medical professionals and highly processed snack foods.

This thread has no point. None. Except that I remember olestra.

It probably didn't make me losing my voice. Correlation is not causation etc etc

It's like the time I had a jello pudding pop when I was sick as a kid and immediately threw up. The pop was innocent

But it's been decades and I still refuse to eat one.

Unrelated, apparently Olestra was briefly used in an eco-friendly line of paints? https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/news-blog/olestra-makes-a-comeback-and-this-t-2009-04-06/