You thought you had to lock your medicine cabinet, but do you also have to keep an eye on your spice rack too? 

A New Haven principal is on leave after witnessing kids partaking in the cinnamon challenge, a trend that  Twitter users and YouTube video posters prove is not necessarily that new. But it seems to be growing. A school in Pennsylvania recently banned open-topped boots to prevent students hiding cinnamon eager to take this challenge, during which one attempts to eat a tablespoon of cinnamon without throwing up or aspirating from doing so.

My question is, um, whatttt?

I can (barely) understand fashion trends that involve rooster feather hair accessories and anything involving this mass-obsession everyone seems to have with Twilight and Justin Bieber. But eating cinnamon? This seems not only disgusting, but also dangerous. It's along the lines of planking. Fun one minute, but you could fall off the edge of a building (or choke in this case) the next. 

The trends that teens are gravitating toward these days  actually worry me. It seems that there is more idiocy in them than trends of the past. I mean, in the 80s kids gravitated toward metal hair/ music. Despite the amount of hairspray used to create those hairstyles (more than is likely healthy for the lungs and/ or atmosphere) at least it wasn't dangerous or along the lines of trying to down a globule of a spice without becoming ill.

Trends say a lot about our society. What does this say to you?