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ArbitraryValueOne time I went to an Indian restaurant with my boss (from south India) and a Mexican coworker. I ordered my food mild, my boss ordered his medium, and the Mexican guy ordered his hot. My boss tried to warn him but he insisted that he could handle spicy food.
The food came out, the Mexican guy had no problem eating his, and started gloating. Then my boss told him that he was actually eating my boss’s medium food. After they switched plates, the Mexican guy turned red, started sweating, and had to ask my boss to switch back.
My brother is half white half Mexican and I am pretty much full white.
He decided to order his as hot as mine even though we all warned him not to.
His food tasted pretty good at about 3:30 the next morning
This makes it sound like you ate his shit…
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This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥Yeah too much spice kills the flavour. You should be using spices to enhance the flavour, not smother it.
Provoked GamerYeah that’s true. If I wanted to drown in only tasting the spice, I’d eat a few peppers or something. Spice is good, but so is flavour.
I took a mate out to an Indian place I regularly eat at and we had a few pints before. When I ordered the “devil potatoes” they warned me as they always do about the spice, I drunkenly bantered with the waiter that I’ve had them before and can hack it, then jokingly added “in fact make them extra spicy”. Anyway, they did cook them extra hot, probably thinking he could embarrass the cocky British bloke. I wolfed them down no problem, my mate had one and I just watched his face go red and start coughing. Felt so bad.
THED4NIELLast time at the indian restaurant I specifically stated I want the (true) spicy variant.
Food was barely eatable.
Next time I’ll return it if they give me the bland version again.
As a white guy this is the hard part of ordering Thai or Indian. I want the spicy version, not the white guy spicy version. But, if I emphasize that, then they end up giving me beyond the spicy version to mess with me. So I just order the spicy version and sometimes it’s perfect while other times it’s too mild and disappointing.
Man that sucks. I hate when people assume that white peoples can’t handle spice. I’m brown, but I know some white friends that love spice.
It’s about the only racial discrimination I face, so in perspective it’s not a bad deal for me.
I just ate at an Indian restaraunt about an hour ago and it was surprisingly manageable.
If you’re in a Western country, it’s possible, they make it several magnitudes less spicy than it is traditionally. Just because they’d have no customers otherwise…
"So when you say ‘very spicy’, do you mean for you or for me? Because I sure as hell can’t handle India-spicy, but I love European-spicy.
AeroMan. I absolutely cannot handle spicy food. But damn is it too good. Indian is certainly one of my favourites, and frankly, if it isn’t spicy, it’s not right. I will continue eating it regardless, cause it is top notch.
The sweating means I’m enjoying it. I don’t want a curry unless it makes my nose start running.
I’m skinny as hell I need every reason to eat and an endorphin addiction is a hell of a way to do it lol
poplecticIt’s when they all emerge from the kitchen to look over at you, you know you’ve made a mistake!
A little spice enhances flavor, a lot is just self-hazing.
If you're not sweating profusely, it's not tasty.
NepentheI don't understand how people do this, to be honest. Do you know how spicy food works? The receptor it triggers in your mouth is TRPV1, which does handle heat regulation and sensitivity, but it's also a pain receptor. Like, selectively removing it to treat the pain caused by bone cancer kind of receptor.
The kind of heat that sets it off is heat above 109F/43C, in addition to things like scorpion venom. Presumably it comes through as heat. Everyone tells me it feels hot. I don't get "heat." I get what is clearly agony in one of the most innervated areas of the body, and science backed me up on this.
Y'all are addicted to licking the curling iron and I'm the weird one
I’m with you on this
You're probably just sensitive to capsaicin. I love hot food, and it takes a lot for me to end up in agony like you described. But I've definitely been that guy at an Indian place where I'm sweating profusely while telling the staff the food is delicious.
Finding a hot sauce that tastes good/doesn't taste like hot garbage is harder than actually eating food seasoned with it.
🇸🇵🇪🇨🇺🇱🇦🇹🇪🇷I’m a chili head and I fucking hate hot sauce that’s just pain without flavor. I’ve also been the guy in a Thai restaurant that regretted “hottest” on their menu.
Same. I've thrown out entire gift sets I've gotten because it's just hot garbage in a bottle. I always tell the giver that I appreciate the thought, but if you're gonna spend the money, go to someplace like pepper Palace and get one good thing instead of six bottles turds.
BeigeAgendaSame here I like chilli in moderation, a drop or two of habanero or a really strong ghost pepper sauce gives plenty taste and heat.
At some point I found out that I’m not superman when it comes to chilli and while I eating really hot food my body says “Stop not a bite more!”
Now I just try to stay far from my limit where I can enjoy the taste of chilli.
I think that’s why I tend to like carrot based hot sauces over vinegar. The carrot dulls the spiciness a bit and you get the flavor of the peppers more.
Carrot based hot sauce you say? I’m intrigued and will research on my own, but do you have a suggestion for a good tasting medium heat hot sauce that is carrot based?
Secret Aardvark is pretty famous in the US West and its third ingredient is carrot. This site has a whole section for carrot-based. I think they are usually habanero sauces
I actually have some Secret Aardvark in my fridge already, it’s tasty stuff. Never realized it was carrot based. Thanks for the info and link.
Ferment your own if you really want to get wild. It’s not hard, just takes patience.
Many of the thick sauces are carrot based, since it stops it just being a bottle of spice water and actually has a sauce consistancy
I’ve got one at the moment that’s Naga with a Peach base. That’s damn tasty.
Theres too many “extract enhanced” sauces out there now like Da Bomb that just taste like chemicals and spice. It’s cheating in my book, make a hot sauce that blows my head off and tastes good.
If the marketing leads with the Scoville rating, that’s usually it’s a sign it’s going to be shit. I used to be very into chillies, somehow I drifted away from it. But the Naga Jolokia sauce I had could ruin a pot with a few drops. Naturally I ate a teaspoon of it once, and can’t say I recommend it.
Naga sauce in if itself is fine, I have a Naga and Peach one at the moment that’s dope. They do kick in faster than other types of chilli though.
Yeah, I think this one was made with added capsaicin extract, it had that kind of black colour to it.
Yeah, it’s like a black tar if you see it in its raw form.
seitanicI enjoy spicy food, but among Euro-Americans it isn’t about the taste, it’s a macho badass thing. You prove how much of a man you are by how many Scoville units you can consume. It’s dumb.
I mean, not all of us do. Admittedly I tried the “World’s Hottest Ramen” for a laugh once, but I I regularly cook with Carolina Reapers as I like the taste not to prove how big my balls are.
My thoughts also. The spice level should accentuate the flavour, not just be hot for scoville bragging.
i had amazing spicy Thai, the good thing is it was too hot for my wife to steal any from my plate
StalinIsMaiWaifuIt might be because I am also a bit of a masochist, but spicy food just taste better
Also you can build a tolerance for spicy food, I am in the unfortunate position that my mouth is much more tolerant than my ass (that I do not have the gene to digest capsaicin is a curse I levy upon my ancestors)
That's the weird thing that got me just a couple minutes after posting this, and I just sat there for a while, staring into the middle distance.
I am a sadomasochist that needs my salsa to be mostly yogurt.
mouth is much more tolerant than my ass
Protein powder + banana + ice + milk/milk alternative all in blender. I don’t question the dark magic of this concoction, I just appreciate it after going a little overboard with the scoville units.
It's why many women enjoy being spanked. Pain and pleasure have a really intricate, interconnected system.
I'm genuinely sitting here wondering if I can flip my brain to see it that way, and that might even work in theory. But if this is my best way out...I don't wanna be turned on by hot sauce 😭
You don’t even have to see it in a sexual way. People like boxing and MMA. Or getting into bar fights for fun. It makes your body release adrenaline and other hormones that give you a natural high.
I love extremely spicy food that almost makes you tap out. But I’m Asian so might be cultural
Nah, I’m British and we’re regularly mocked for our bland food but I love spicy stuff so it’s more than cultural.
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Mm-hmm, and why do I like spanking them?
I totally agree with you. My in-laws are always talking about how spicy they like their Indian takeaway food, and how they have to change their usual order when I’m dining with them. I’m just here thinking, “I don’t like it when the food hurts my mouth when I’m eating it.” Its as simple as that. If I can choose two versions of the same food, where one hurts my mouth and the other doesn’t, I’m going with the non-painful one, thanks.
The one exception I make is Jalapenos. I love the taste of jalapenos. They are not very spicy on the whole scale of things, and the flavour they add to subway sandwiches and vegetarian pizzas is amazing. But that is unrelated to Indian food.
The pain is kind of the point. More specifically the body’s response to pain is the point. Eating spicy food, especially mild foods when starting, is a low level pain but it triggers the body’s pain response. You get those nice dopamine and endorphins released. You end up associating the two and your journey to liking spicy food has begun.
It gets easier the more spicy food you eat. I think your brain just starts muting the pain response because it clearly isn’t stopping the painful thing from happening.
Also, spiciness is an easy way to get some flavor into an otherwise bland dish. Handy if you’re on a diet.
And it hurts in kinda a good way? Kinda, like wiggling a loose tooth when you’re a kid…
My mom, a wonderful lady in every other sense, was a terrible cook. The blandest of the bland. Unseasoned potatoes and overcooked meat was the norm. Even when she branched out to other things like stir fry and pizza, she still somehow managed to make them utterly flavorless.
I distinctly recall one day at school, somehow I ended up with a little too much pepper in my tomato soup. It was like my taste buds had finally come of age or something. I started regularly adding too much pepper to my tomato soup. Then Tobasco. Then, as a young adult I found a specialty hot sauce place in the mall. It was the second coming!
Now, I live in Korea, and wow they’re not afraid to spice it up here. I do get tired of the constant “Oh, the waygook (foreigner) can handle spicy food!” refrain though.
Why do people participate in Iron Man Triathlons or BDSM? We all got to get our hurt on somehow, remind us that we’re alive!
owatnextPain = dolphins in my brain. (=
Hot=pain=endorphins= happiness
The heart wants what it wants
Some people go overboard with peppers that are all heat and no flavour; Those add nothing to the dish. Proper Thai or Indian with a mix of spice brings out the flavours, so its hot but also delicious. And it hits the mouth different. Like those hot pepper challenges arent food, they just burn all over lips mouth and throat, that should never a dining experience