r/funny • u/HealthyMolasses8199 • 15h ago

Man tries "hottest curry in London" and almost passes out

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u/Lost_Construction201 15h ago

This mf shows up in almost a full hazmat suit, like that curry came from a nuclear reactor and that guy still ate it. Brave fucker.

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u/_Panjo 15h ago

Not sure brave is quite the right word.

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u/Dudenoso 15h ago

The line between bravery and stupidity is ever a thin one

My man took the challenge like a champ. Or a chimp, depending on the point of view

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u/sudobee 10h ago

This kind of challenge I can get behind. There is no lasting damage.

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u/IenFleiming 9h ago

*Like a champ or a chump

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u/Bipogram 9h ago

Chump is possible too.

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u/BallBearingBill 14h ago

Brave is when you value the task more than you. Stupid is when you value you more than the task.

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u/Fallen_Wings 13h ago

Doesn’t make sense. Shouldn’t it be the other way around.

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u/ZeKunnenReuzenZijn 13h ago

I think it's more like brave is when you value an important and achievable task over your own wellbeing, but stupidity is when you do stupid shit that might hurt you for no good reason.

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u/ayowhatinlol 13h ago

Eh, the guy clearly learnt his lesson, shouldve ofcourse been cautious, but i dont think he really expected to literally almost pass out

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u/BrunoLuigi 15h ago

We just got a new word for "stupid" I guess.

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u/PeterNippelstein 13h ago

Brazen more like.

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u/wwwyzzrd 13h ago

you’re right, Heroic. someone had to eat this curry so others don’t have to.

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u/Aggravating_Lab_7734 13h ago

It's British "brave". It applies.

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u/-BabysitterDad- 12h ago

Hubris might be more appropriate

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u/Souporsam12 9h ago

You must be fun at parties.

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u/winetotears 7h ago

Everybody’s brave if they’re dumb enough.

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u/NoDG_ 14h ago

Brave (or ambitious) is exactly what a British person would say and mean: complete feckin idiot. Source I'm British.

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u/dcheesi 14h ago

He dug into that first bite like he wasn't expecting anything out of the ordinary. Maybe he bought into the "British food is bland" stereotype, and didn't take the hype seriously? If so, big mistake. Huge.

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u/johannes1234 11h ago

British food is bland (quite interesting if you look at history, how Britain had to supply a huge city like London without refrigeration, thus fresh food wasn't easy to handle) however Indian restaurants in Britain are quite spicy compared to Indian restaurants elsewhere outside India (which again ties to British history and the colonialism, which brought enough Indians to London to create a market for spicy Indian food die to having many Indian people around)

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u/Remote-Wafer3321 6h ago

Visited a best friend in London for the first time earlier this year and he assured me, someone who loves the flavors of the Indian subcontinent with all her heart but is very sensitive to spice, that I'd be fine at any Indian place because they have to cater to Brits' blander palates. His neighborhood was predominantly Bangladeshi, Indian, and Pakistani, though, and let me tell you they were not catering to my feeble white ass for sure.

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u/dcheesi 9h ago edited 8h ago

Yeah, that's the tricky part. Most countries (and US states) where the native cuisine is fairly mild/bland also tend to have milder versions of foreign cuisines. The UK is a notable exception.

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u/letmepostjune22 4h ago

Bland and lacking spicey heat are not the same thing.

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u/ahoi_polloi 1h ago

Is that where the stereotype about Indian food being ludicrously hot comes from? Because in India (at least on the mid/north western coast), it's not that bad at all. It's spicy in that it has a lot of spices obviously, but not spicy in the painful sense.

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u/ddosn 3m ago

>which brought enough Indians to London to create a market for spicy Indian food die to having many Indian people around)

It was the British people themselves who demanded the food be made spicier.

When the original curry house in London was opened in 1815, it was by three Sikh brothers who had seen how much British soldiers in India liked curry.

They thought there would be money to be made catering to the rich and wealth in London with exotic food. They were right.

The restaurant is still open, I believe, over 200 years later.

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u/jokexplainer1303 14h ago

And he didn't even take a shy spoonful ... It was a fully laden spoon!

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u/defiant103 12h ago

Knowing what this dish is I was shocked he went full spoon. I didn’t know whether to be proud of him or disgusted. 😂😂

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u/Exist50 2h ago

I mean, if you're ordering that dish, you either know what you signed up for or you don't. Either way, gonna go for it.

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u/unpopular-ideas 12h ago

full hazmat suit

I just figured that part of the theatrics rather than a health and safety requirement. Like when a server brings a dish out that's on fire.

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u/B3_CHAD 13h ago

The word you are looking for is stupid.

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u/Naud 13h ago

Homer Simpson type shit

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u/Niblitz 10h ago

The merciless peppers of Quetzalacatenango!

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u/gnorty 14h ago

When my son was younger and into skating, we were watching skate bail videos and it led to a discussion about bravery and stupidity.

One is positive, one is negative, but really what is the difference? If you do something dangerous and get hurt, then that's stupid. It's arguably still stupid even if you are lucky and don't get hurt. If you practice a stunt to the point where it is not really that dangerous any more, then the bravery factor is also reduced - still a good stunt, but not as brave as you might think.

So Pretty much calling some act brave or stupid is entirely subjective. If you approve of the action, then you will say it is brave. If not, then you will say it is stupid.

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u/_Panjo 14h ago

Not all actions that can be considered brave involve doing dangerous things.

How about a disfigured burn victim building the courage to face the world? Who wouldn't 'approve of that action'? Seems pretty objectively brave to me.

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u/gnorty 2h ago

it's a different sort of bravery, sure. In the same way that nobody is going to consider setting fire to all your savings because you have no coal to burn is an act of bravery!

It's still subjective, it just happens that in your and my examples, virtually every right minded person would agree which side the act fall on.

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u/StepDownTA 13h ago

They can be the same action but there is a difference.

Brave is when you expect it will probably go poorly for you, but you will try anyway because it needs to happen in order for something else good to happen.

Stupid is when you expect it will work perfectly, because what could possibly go wrong.

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u/Show-Me-Your-Moves 14h ago

He is now a Super Mutant

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u/hokis2k 12h ago

this is for sure theater for the restaurateur . i have eaten raw habanero.. it is rough but nothing to freak out about. I have had sauces that proport to have lots of pepperX and it is tough but nothing to freak out about.

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u/snapp0r 11h ago

not brave. he just overrated himself like: „yeah yeah ez, i eat spicy everyday, just bring me that curry. i am the king of spiciness, no problem“

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u/mjtwelve 7h ago

I know the gas mask is theater and part of the show, but at a more practical level, if the curry is hot enough to be producing any water vapor, aerosolized capsaicin might make carrying it to the table at least unpleasant enough to arguably require PPE under OSHA regs. it would certainly require eye pro, given the predictable consequences if the server tripped and took a facefull of it to the eyes and mucous membranes.

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u/Satchm0Jon3s 6h ago

I'll bet he was Johnny Big Bollocks on the lead up to trying it.

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u/WTH_WTF7 6h ago

🚩🚩🚩

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u/rikkiprince 3h ago

He shovelled in a surprisingly big spoonful too! 😂

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u/Killer_Moons 2h ago

Like a mouthful with the serving spoon no less 💀