While arguing Monday that the use of tear gas on hundreds of migrants and asylum-seekers near the U.S. border the previous day was justified, a Fox News guest asserted: “It’s natural. You could actually put it on your nachos and eat it.”

“So it’s a good way of deterring people without long-term harm,” Border Patrol Foundation President Ron Colburn told “Fox & Friends.” Colburn is the former national deputy chief of U.S. Border Patrol, according to an online bio.

The comment recalled when then-Fox News host Megyn Kelly called pepper spray “a food product, essentially” after a police officer at UC Davis pepper sprayed seated student protesters in 2011, leading to some creative Amazon reviews.

Earlier in the interview Monday, Colburn asserted that the so-called “caravan” of migrants and asylum-seekers “has a core of violence to it that basically communicates a sense of entitlement.”

“These are persons that one would like to think are true refugees,” Colburn said, “but they are not showing that in their actions.”

Watch below:

Former Border Patrol national deputy chief: Asylum-seekers and migrants at the border are communicating "a sense of entitlement." Tear gas used on them is "natural: You could actually put it on your nachos and eat it." H/t @revrrlewis pic.twitter.com/6wgiQFbcK2 — Matt Shuham (@mattshuham) November 26, 2018

H/t Bobby Lewis, Daily Beast.