A UK based Indian restaurant - ‘Chai Walla’ one of the best-ranked restaurants in Bath successfully managed to send a ‘samosa’ into space - before it crash-landed in France. It took three attempts for Niraj Gadher, owner of the Chai Walla eatery, to launch a samosa into space.
According to news website UPI, Niraj Gadher, owner of the Chai Walla eatery, said when he came up with this unique idea of sending a samosa into space with a thought of spreading joy around.
"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," Mr Gadher told Somerset Live.
Niraj used helium balloons to launch the popular Indian snack into space which he could get right in three tries.
The first time, the helium balloons slipped from his hands, he added.
"The second time we didn't have enough helium, but we got there on the third time," he said.
A video shared on YouTube shows Mr Gadher and his friends launching the samosa into space after joining it to a weather balloon outfitted with a GoPro camera and a GPS tracker.
The group then freed the samosa and watched it as it travelled high up in the air.
As the balloon went high up in the air, the GPS initially failed and Mr Niraj was unable to track the journey of the samosa. However, the next day it came back and revealed that the samosa had crash-landed in France.
The group then started to send messages to people in the area over Instagram to check if anyone would be willing to hunt down the snack.
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An Instagram user by the name of Axel Mathon accepted their request and found the samosa in a field in Picardie. "Really until I got here, I couldn't believe it," the Instagram user said.
"And actually when I looked up I saw the burst helium balloon in the trees. and I found this polystyrene box well packed. It was a bit like a treasure hunt, I thought it was crazy!