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What's your limit? 413 chicken nuggets joke

This is a Reddit screenshot meme. At the top, there is a tabloid-style headline reading "Local Man Paralysed After Eating 413 Chicken Nuggets", with the headline above a photo of a massive pile of hundreds of chicken nuggets. At the bottom, a screenshot of a Reddit comment from user `swissguy25` makes a darkly humorous joke: "So the Limit is 412". The joke works because the man was paralyzed after eating 413 nuggets, so the implied safe maximum (answering the original question "what's your limit?") is 412, turning a shocking odd news headline into a silly joke about overeating.
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Local Man Paralysed After Eating 413 Chicken Nuggets

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This is a Reddit screenshot meme. At the top, there is a tabloid-style headline reading "Local Man Paralysed After Eating 413 Chicken Nuggets", with the headline above a photo of a massive pile of hundreds of chicken nuggets. At the bottom, a screenshot of a Reddit comment from user swissguy25 makes a darkly humorous joke: "So the Limit is 412". The joke works because the man was paralyzed after eating 413 nuggets, so the implied safe maximum (answering the original question "what's your limit?") is 412, turning a shocking odd news headline into a silly joke about overeating.

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This meme originates from Reddit, as confirmed by the source information given, and it is formatted as a screenshot of a Reddit post and comment. The original post was titled "What's your limit?", and it circulated as a viral joke in Reddit meme communities, playing on the popularity of competitive eating challenges and absurd strange local news headlines.

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