I went to a Korean hot pot place one time and ordered the hottest broth. The waitress, who barely spoke English, asked if I was sure. I said yes and when they brought it out I was sweating buckets but still loved the food. The waitress actually brought out a fan and stuck it next to my table. 10 out of 10, Would sweat again
Hottest shit I've ever eaten was Thai Food.
I've done the One Chip Challenge, regularly dump Carolina Reaper Sauce on my food, have eaten Ghost Pepper raw twice.
But none of it compares to the regular spicy noodles and beef dish I have eaten from the local Thai place. Southeastern Asians are just a different breed when it comes to Spices.
Spices and taste, all of it taste increadible!
One 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 he 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 boss had no problem eating the hot food; he just preferred the taste of medium.)
Yeah too much spice kills the flavour. You should be using spices to enhance the flavour, not smother it.
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
I 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
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.
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 want to tap out. But I'm Asian so might be cultural
It 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.
You can build a tolerance, I know. You're literally burning your pain receptors out temporarily. But the kind of determination I appear to need to get there. How am I the world's worst bitch
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.
I used to frequent a Szechuan noodle place. Those fucking noodles would melt my face off and give me lava shits 45 minutes later, but I couldn't stay away.
This is how the ads should be written.
Irregular? Just eat some of our noodles.
The sweating means I'm enjoying it. I don't want a curry unless it makes my nose start running.
No. Let them see you cry. Let them see you hiccup and snot all over yourself. Let them see the agony.
Then take another bite. Tell them it's delicious. Because it is.
I am fucking shameless when it comes to food sweats.
Bullets, big fat movie tears, damp sweaty towels around my shoulders.... stop to take an exhaustedand spicy breathe.... enter the second hand.... I are now double fisting chicken pathia like a chungus level American baby does spaghetti. The wait staff are disgusted, the date left hours ago... But I am happier than I will ever be.
My god that's a fucking funny picture and it's damn true too. I love me some fucking spicy food.
I used to like really spicy food and kept pestering my local place to make spicier curries until one day they finally got it hot enough to get to me. I ate the whole thing while the owner watched me laugh at my stupidity through my tears. It felt like I had a little space heater in my bowels for two whole days.
Sign me up for some authentic spicy Indian food. I am more than willing to have spice sweats for some damn good spicy food.
Last 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 an Indian dude, I don't like food that is too spicy. It just masks all other flavour. What most restaurants would call medium spicy is what I usually prefer.
Spice definitely enhances the flavor to me. I don't like things too hot, but I prefer spicy over mild.
I agree with you. Don't get me wrong, I don't like bland food. My cooking has been called too spicy by people not used to Indian cuisine. It's just that I don't like it when hot is the only thing you can taste.
It’s when they all emerge from the kitchen to look over at you, you know you’ve made a mistake!
IDK why, but some kinds of spice just sweat me the fuck up. Like, my mouth won't even feel hot, but the top of my head will be pouring.
Ah, the things we do to attempt to preserve our dignity when we think we're getting something only entertainingly hot, but turns out to be Chicken à la Mace...
I love curry!
I'm pretty sure they like it when you cry
"Success Raj! they weep like the removed of Bombay! we have made it well! Big high fives*
I mean, if it's considered good manners to let a burp out in some places, thise could also been seen as a compliment to the chef perhaps?
If you're not sweating profusely, it's not tasty.
I grew up in somewhat of a food desert, coupled with an undiagnosed lactose intolerance, I avoided a lot of foods, including anything "spicy". When I grew up, went to a gastro doc, I changed my diet and now I can't not have spicy foods. I'm talking about dousing everything I eat in cayenne, habanero sauce, ghost pepper dip, everything. Why? I feel like you enjoy food for longer if you have to take a bit to get through the spice.
It's like the pain makes you really concentrate on the food
Exactly.
Man. 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.
And here I am, growing my own peppers and putting hot sauce on... Almost everything. Live spicy food.
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