in Thailand i usually ordered non spicy at all. Just on time i ordered my pat Thai with the tiniest bit of spicy, making very clear they got the point. I couldn't eat it.
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I guess some people don't make chocolate covered birds eye chili's for snacks?
I'm intrigued by this.
Once had a 7/10 spice at a thailand resteraunt. Holy shit that was spicy. 10/10 would have killed me
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.
Honestly, learn how to say "spicy" in Thai. That way they dont give you "white people spicy"
the language learning center of my brain is stuck on greek right now. i'll end up saying something ridiculous
I mean, you could try that!
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.
asking you where youre from is hilarious
ive been buying powdered ghost pepper instead of expensive hot sauce. saving tons of money
I don't like vinegar, and that's the predominant taste I get from most hot sauces. So, I also buy powdered ghost pepper. It's super handy, since my family has zero spice tolerance I can just add powder to whatever on my plate/bowl.
My friends and I all grow super hots and make our own dry spices as well. That doesn't stop me from buying hot sauces though because I enjoy the variety of flavors, but you can use the dry spice to add heat to many dishes that hot sauce would ruin/overpower.
for sure, i still have a bottle or two around, but i rarely every use them anymore since the shaker is so much cheaper, faster, and more able to add heat. like you said, without changing the flavor too much. :)
I think this is masochism. Food doesn’t leave any external marks so these people go with food.
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.
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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
7.5MB snapshot of a receipt, fucking high fidelity meme.
Hilarious to have that for what is practically a monochrome dot-matrix printout.
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Not the cuisine to make that joke with.
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.
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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.
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