DH's family is anglo indian and cook a lot of indian food. One of the things they often make is something they call mango pickle (or other types of pickle...) which to me looks like an oily curry type paste.

Poor DH managed to drop some on one of his tshirts last weekend and as soon as he did it everyone was like "oh, that tshirt is going to the graveyard now", "there's no hope for that stain" etc etc. Apparently they were all convinced that there is no way to remove this stain from the tshirt no matter how quickly you act.

He's tried washing it normally after using preen oxyaction on it. The stain was still there.

Then he tried soaking it in napisan and then washing it. The stain is still there.

I'm not willing to give up hope though and thought you girls might have an idea?!