Samosa sent to 'space' by British eatery crash-lands in France
JAN. 11, 2021 / 5:45 PM
A restaurant in Britain attempted to use weather balloons to send a samosa "to space," but the food item ended up crash-landing in France.
Niraj Gadher, owner of the Chai Walla eatery in Bath, England, said he came up with the idea to send the samosa to space as a means of bringing some mirth to what has been a difficult time. ...
"I said as a joke once that I would send a samosa into space, and then I thought during this bleak times we could all use a reason to laugh" ...
Gadher and his friends attached the samosa to a weather balloon outfitted with a GoPro camera and a GPS tracker so they could follow the food item's journey, but shortly after launch they discovered the GPS was malfunctioning.
Gadher said he thought the project was a loss, but the next day the GPS reactivated and revealed the balloon had crash-landed in a field in Caix, Picardie, France. ...
An Instagram user with the handle AxelMathon set out on a mission to find the crash site, and he said he was shocked to find the balloon and the box containing the GoPro and the GPS hanging from a tree in a field.
The samosa and its wrapper were missing from the crash site, leading Gadher to theorize it had become a meal for some French wildlife.
It's unknown how high the samosa ended up traveling, but a clip recorded by its GoPro camera shows it being passed by an airplane. ...