A meal at the court. A meal based on exotic dishes and spices cost Marie Antoinette and other nobles a few days of forced diet
Although Queen Marie Antoinette she habitually ate little (https://www.pilloledistoria.it/3864/storia-moderna/i-pasti-sobri-maria-antonietta), every now and then she loved experimenting with new tastes and getting to know the flavor of dishes from foreign countries, also to offer them to her guests.
Thus it was that some Indian ambassadors arrived at the court became the occasion to try their typical stews, prepared by the skilled hands of the slaves following them.
These exotic dishes, hitherto completely unknown at court, met with immediate success at the table, but forced the queen and her noble friends to several days of forced diet , since their stomachs, not accustomed to hot spices like chilli and curry, were negatively affected.