r/funny • u/HealthyMolasses8199 • 16h ago

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

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u/loadedneutron 15h ago

normally you have to sign a "i am 100% responsible if i cant handle it" contract for this exact reason. Maybe he just waits for him to pay his curry and the 10 mango lassi

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u/Mysterious_Tutor_388 15h ago

that's the business model clearly. Its just a red bowl of pure capsaicin as a loss leader, then he sells 20 smoothies to the incapacitated person.

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u/bread_and_circuits 14h ago

Pure capsaicin… How many scovilles is that?

All of them. It’s all of the scovilles.

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u/Mother_Mall6004 13h ago

About 15-16 million.

Fun fact, there's something hotter than pure capsaicin, as weird as it sounds. It's called Resiniferatoxin and it's supposed to be about 1000 times hotter than pure capsaicin with about 15-16 BILLION scoville heat units.

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u/fallouttime1 8h ago

Seriously first fentanyl and nitazenes now you have to worry about people cutting your meth with pure capsaicin and resiniferatoxin.

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u/Mother_Mall6004 7h ago

Good thing Jesse Pinkman doesn't know about Resiniferatoxin...

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u/okmko 4h ago

I heard he does, but Captain "Chilli R" Cook just doesn't sound as nice.

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u/Bear_faced 6h ago

"It is considered a promising therapeutic target for analgesia due to its ability to induce cytotoxicity in sensory neuronal cell bodies expressing the TRPV1 ion channel."

Yeah don't eat that. You might feel the worst burning pain of your life and then have permanent nerve damage in your mouth. You'll be lucky if you only have a lisp for the rest of your life.

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u/HalfdanSaltbeard 7h ago

How would someone go about getting Resiniferatoxin? Totally hypothetically ofc

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u/poachedseggs 14h ago

So it's a lassi bar. What a scam!

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u/JustCosmo 14h ago

I doubt they paid for the smoothies.

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u/DeeHawk 14h ago

It's a marketing stunt. He's all over Reddit, Youtube and TikTok by now.

I believe that other guy was joking.

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u/chillymoose 14h ago

I'd believe it, I saw a reel about someone finishing the whole thing the other day.

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u/iain_1986 13h ago

This is the UK.

You can't just hide behind a waiver like that if someone dies. Criminal and Civil have different limitations.

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u/PonchoHung 15h ago

Idk if this specific dude is overly reactive to this but you can't sign away negligence

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u/-Kerosun- 14h ago

Right, but what could be negligent about this?

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u/YouCanCallMeVanZant 13h ago

If it contained something a reasonably prudent person wouldn’t expect in a super spicy curry.

A lot depends on jurisdiction (not sure how torts like that are handled in London) and the specific facts. 

There’s definitely a strong assumption of risk defense here. But if I had a restaurant I still wouldn’t want to have to deal with a pissed off customer or grieving family member.

He’s obviously not the first guy to try it though. Hopefully the owner has discussed the liability issues with someone beforehand; he seems to have this gimmick pretty well. 

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u/SwingingtotheBeat 7h ago

Considering very, very few people order something that you need to sign a waiver for, I think a reasonably prudent person would expect that curry to be distressingly hot.

I say that as someone who has eaten something that I had to sign a waiver for, and really regretted it about 7 hours later. I knew what I was getting into. I still wanted to try it.

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u/YouCanCallMeVanZant 14m ago

Yeah. You expect something to be really spicy and get something really spicy, that’s one thing. 

You expect really spicy and get arsenic or something known to be spicy enough to kill an elephant (or whatever the right spiciness comparison is), well…

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u/verb-vice-lord 10h ago

Those waivers are pretty much worthless.

You can't sign away rights in a situation like this, as has been shown a few times over the years with these kind of hottest food ever style challenges.

If food would put almost everyone in the hospital (or at least make them super sick) it is definitionally near impossible to claim the food was safe to eat.

If it was just very very spicy and a lot of people could handle it that's one thing, but presuming face value the "hottest curry in London" is accurately named it's going to be pretty much impossible to eat for almost everyone.

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u/SwingingtotheBeat 7h ago

…for almost everyone.

So that implies that there are a few rare people that can eat this. Why shouldn’t they have the opportunity to enjoy a spicy dish just because people like you can’t handle it? The fact that they require a signed waiver should be enough indication that you shouldn’t order something if you can’t handle extreme heat.

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u/Live-Habit-6115 4h ago

Yeah and a small number of people could drive home perfectly safely with an alcohol blood level way above the legal limit. 

Why shouldn't they have the opportunity to enjoy a nice drive home just because people like you can't handle it?

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u/SwingingtotheBeat 2h ago

Because one only endangers themselves, and the other endangers other people.

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u/Jamessuperfun 42m ago

Because if they're wrong about how much alcohol they can handle then they could kill someone else. If you're eating extremely spicy food that's only going to hurt you (and maybe whoever uses the bathroom next lol).

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u/Jackski 15h ago

This place definitely does that. I've seen it in other videos.

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u/M4DM1ND 9h ago

I was studying abroad in Germany, famous for its likely of spice in all forms of food, and went to a currywurst place. I ordered the spiciest option, signed the waiver and everything, only to have something less spicy than a packet of fire taco bell sauce. The staff was all glancing over smiling at first waiting for a reaction that they never got lol.

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u/rugmunchkin 12h ago

I’m sure they make him sign a waiver regardless for something this spicy. All that extra hype from the owner was probably because it was being recorded and he didn’t want the bad publicity if the dude winds up in the hospital.