I guess some people don't make chocolate covered birds eye chili's for snacks?
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Once had a 7/10 spice at a thailand resteraunt. Holy shit that was spicy. 10/10 would have killed me
Not the cuisine to make that joke with.
dude, last time i went to the thai place, this was the instruction i gave them.
they gave me white grandma mild. i'm never going back. i eat ghost peppers raw.
I asked my local thai restaurant to "make it a little spicier than normal" because their normal is white suburban spicy and the chef gave me something so spicy it was inedible.
Like... Fuck you, you arent the only Thai restaraunt in town.
the chef gave me something so spicy it was inedibl
i want to go there
Happened to me at an Indian restaurant. Owner asked me where I was from then told me she was giving me medium. They’re out of business now.
ive been buying powdered ghost pepper instead of expensive hot sauce. saving tons of money
My father used to be all macho and say this kind of shit when we'd visit Mexican restaurants as a kid. Once place decided to teach him a lesson and honestly everyone involved thought it was hilarious including my father. And yes, they delivered on making him regret it.
i'm "macho" and say all this shit but like, for good reason. i get a tummyache if i don't have like 20,000 capsaicans a day
Serious question. How are your shits? Every time I start to build my tolerance, I hit a point where I’m paying for it on the back end and I have to scale back.
Monstruos and irregular. My gut is literally built with different organs
man im so jelly. anytime i get more adventurous than salt and maybe a teeny tiny bit of pepper my insides turn to lava and I spend at least a couple hours expelling hot fire from my anus afterwards. :(
I am the physical embodiment of vanilla, at least culinarily speaking lmao
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Spread across several fediverse instances, so this meme is potentially wasting hundreds of MBs
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I don't put it on my breakfast cereal, but I do use smoked ground up scorpion pepper as a seasoning to put on pretty much anything that isn't supposed to taste sweet. I know a guy, so I buy it by the mason jar.
do you grow your own or have a supplier? i would like to purchase said smoked ground up scorpion pepper seasoning please
I think this is masochism. Food doesn’t leave any external marks so these people go with food.
Have you ever heard of "runners high"? You get the same thing about 10 minutes after eating really spicy food
I used to live in West Africa, where everything is spicy. Grilled scotch bonnet peppers are a garnish in restaurants. It's sink or swim. Thai restaurants make their "mild" Thai mild, swimming in peppers.
At some point you cross a point of tolerance where the lovely flavors of hot peppers open up to you. Orange bonnets and habaneros are wonderfully delicious. Zingy with a fruity chili flavor that is unlike other milder peppers. 10/10 my favorite. But only something one can taste once you learn to tolerate capsicum exposure.
I was joking.
so like in austin texas there used to be (and probably still is, just i don't live there anymore) this group called the Nuclear Taco Club. we'd meet once a month and eat ghost pepper tacos. there was a lot of sour crema and milk there.
Worse, I've noticed that a lot of the hotter stuff doesn't even have a good flavor.
For regular jarred Mexican salsa, I like Herndez. The hot isn't very hot and it would be completely fine for me with chips or whatever, but the flavor of the medium is so much better. I don't really get it.
oh totally. i think they figure people are too burned so they can't taste anything and just load up on arbols and vinegar. we got a new carneceria last year and they have the best deli salsas so we've just been eating those lately
Herdez roast salsa verde chefs kiss
the la victoria green hot was the best, but i don't know what happened to it. haven't been able to find it since covid.
I do lots of very spicy food. I think my tongue has literally been damaged over time by all the heat, so stuff I don't register as being even the slightest bit spicy are unbearably hot to others and I have to really ratchet it up to taste anything.
But what I've found at lots of Asian restaurants is that the staff assumes my pale, white ass can't take real heat. I ask for "5-peppers" hot and they're like "We'll start you with a 2." It's annoying. I've never been served food that's "too hot" in a restaurant, so I kinda understand these exaggerated descriptions people give on food orders.
Being the only spice tolerant person in my family kind of sucks. Whenever I try to get a family member to try something new, the first question they ask is whether it's spicy. I literally cannot even detect mild heat anymore and have several times accidentally given the okay on things they then couldn't finish.
On the other hand you have the bozos that order extra extra spicy and then whine that they can't eat it. That's likely something everyone who works in an Asian restaurant has experienced multiple times.
Reminds me of a time me and a coworker stopped for Indian food at a place neither had been before and he said he wanted a number 7. He's Korean so the server didn't blink , I said 1 please.
When the server walked away I was like man what the hell are you doing a fucking 7 !?, he said I like spicy food , I said ok sorry I mentioned it.
He needed a towel to dry his face , his nose had sweat beads dripping off it. He ate the whole dish , said it was way too hot. And he should have ordered a 2 or 3.
I don't play around in those places, store baught hot sauce is as far as I go and I like it just fine , got nothing to prove. I've tried sauces so hot my ears were ringing and I don't like that jazz
I have a good Sichuan place near me. Sichuan heat can sneak up on you, so people who pull this are liable to be leaving in an ambulance. Makes it difficult for me to get the authentic experience.
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I once had to leave a negative review at the Thai place I go for lunch pretty regularly, because they got a new hostess and she kept trying to save me from my hubris multiple weeks in a row.
The owners finally had a conversation with her and now I get my Pad Thai at the appropriate spice level. I edited the review to 5 stars afterwords.
There’s a Mexican restaurant by me where they keep the good hot sauce in the back.
You can ask for it.
You can purchase it.
They do not keep it on the table.
The guy will however come up to you all sketchy like and ask if you like spicy, then bring you a ramekin for your food and let you know you can take a jar home.
Lots of folks take the bait then struggle in their booth. Dinner and entertainment.
10/10
When I was in the US with another Brit buddy we went out for a curry (Gaylord Chicago IIRC) and each ordered a vindaloo. The head waiter was dispatched to our table to warn us this might be too spicy. When we told him we were British he nodded, smiled, and said "I understand, I'll let the kitchen know."
It was still a bit on the mild side for a BIR vindaloo.
The fact is that even with just a bit of intentional spice "training" you can get your tolerance into the million scoville range, far beyond what your average Indian place can do to their vindaloo unless they are specializing in spicy food and have ghost peppers available.
You can lose that training too, ask me how i know. I had a phase of about 2 years where everything had to be spicy, in the end my sister couldn't eat from my plate anymore. Somehow I stopped eating spicy food - after a few months without training i made the mistake of cooking something spicy without reducing the intensity. Well, then i knew how my sister felt.
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Pad Thai is not a traditionally spicy dish, though. It’s a mild street food, so you have to smother it in toppers to get it hot. You’re way better off ordering a spicy curry and asking for a side of chili oil to raise the heat.
To some people, chili oil may as well be ketchup. Thai food uses birds eye chili peppers for heat. Hotter than jalapenos by a lot and a bit hotter than serrano peppers, but generally about half as hot as a habanero and much less hot than scorpion, ghost, reapers, and a few other variants. I can eat all the bird peppers I want on my food. For real heat I add hotter stuff.
Sure, but if your tolerance is that high then you need to have realistic expectations going to a Thai restaurant. Asking them to “make me cry” like OP did just means the chef is going to throw a few extra peppers in the dish. Every once in a while you’ll get a place that punishes you by throwing like 30 peppers in it and then it’ll taste kind of bitter, but the heat reaches a plateau before that.
Most of the time people ask for that and then complain it’s not hot enough because the Thai restaurant is trying to make traditional dishes with traditional heat, not the latest superhot hybrid.
The chili oil adds quite a bit of flavor and is a nice neutral oil that can enhance anything. If you learn how to make it at home you can infuse it with superhots, but if you get it from the restaurant you’ll get what they have. Some are certainly hotter than others, and I’ve had chili oil that makes me hiccup despite growing superhots at home.
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This could be me.
Phet...Thai spicy all the way.
I’d like spicy better if the burn didn’t linger. Wasabi, I love. It blasts through you, burning away all mucous in your sinuses and then it’s gone. A little dry mouth, so you need a bite of ginger and then another blast of wasabi.
I've never liked wasabi, which is strange because I've loved hot sauce since I was a child. I've since figured out that what I actually like is vinegar and the fact that there's peppers involved is just a pleasant bonus.
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This is what you have to say to get mild spice in Japan.
I've noticed at the last two places I've gotten wasabi with my meal from that the wasabi is weak. I remember in the past, if I ate some wasabi directly, I'd feel the place it first hit my tongue for like 20 seconds after. The last two times, I didn't detect any spice at all, even eating it directly.
Hope this is just a local trend and you're talking about weak spicy mayo or something.
I'm not talking about wasabi, wasabi is its own thing, its weird that we even use the same word to refer to both wasabi and chili peppers.
There's still sushi places that put absurd amounts of wasabi in the sushi.
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