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I tasted Honda’s spicy rodent-repelling tape and I will do it again (2021)

And I will do it again unless someone stops me.

Then he told me the “rodent repellent” was a roll of gray vinyl tape printed with cute little mice silhouettes and coated in pure capsaicin. Look, I resigned myself a long time ago to the fact that I was going to die doing something so stupid, no one would ever mourn me—like French kissing a komodo dragon or running the Kentucky Derby as a pantomime horse. There were no alarming skull-and-crossbones labels on “rodent-proof vinyl adhesive tape No.347”—just one “Class 1 Designated Chemical Substances”: bis(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate, better known as DEHP.

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