I went to a Thai restaurant with friends, they were aficionados but I didn't know what anything on the menu was so it was decided to go for an item on the menu that was something like "meal for seven". Dish after dish arrived and people started picking at it, as far as I could tell the only variation was colour so I put a bit of this and a bit of that on my plate. About the fifth mouthful I put something in that seared my palate as if it was a lump of coal I swallowed and felt it burn its way down my throat. The problem was I didn't know which of the arranged dishes it was and it was too risky to try another mouthful. I ordered egg and chips but couldn't taste a thing.