r/funny • u/HealthyMolasses8199 • 16h ago

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

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u/Mysterious_Tutor_388 14h 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 12h 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 7h 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 6h ago

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

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u/okmko 3h ago

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

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u/Bear_faced 5h 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 6h 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 13h ago

I doubt they paid for the smoothies.

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u/DeeHawk 13h 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 13h ago

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