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The Mary Sue
Terrina Jairaj

Judge rips into tourist’s wild claims about ‘incapacitating’ spicy salsa, revealing the one simple thing he should have done

A New York City judge recently shut down a lawsuit from a tourist who claimed a taco spot’s salsa was so spicy it caused him “severe physical and emotional damage.” The tourist, Faycal Manz, an engineer from Germany, decided to sue Los Tacos No. 1 after a visit to their Times Square location in 2024. 

According to BroBible, Manz ordered a few tacos, including carne asada, chicken, and adobada pork. Here’s where things went sideways: he apparently doused one of his tacos with “a lot of spoons” of the restaurant’s salsa verde. Spoiler alert: this was his first mistake.

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