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.
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.)
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
Yeah too much spice kills the flavour. You should be using spices to enhance the flavour, not smother it.
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.
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.
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's why many women enjoy being spanked. Pain and pleasure have a really intricate, interconnected system.
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)
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.
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
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.
You really paint a vivid picture.
My god that's a fucking funny picture and it's damn true too. I love me some fucking spicy food.
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 wanna eat the real spicy food! In germany everything is watered down so n00bs can eat it🥲
Grow your own Carolina reapers and make your own curry. If I can do it in the Arctic, so can you.
Look for Chinese restaurants where the Chinese go eat.
Most regions in China eat very spicy, just ask the waiter for something extra spicy like the Chinese eat it and they'll give you something amazing.
Where do you live in Germany? Maybe I can recommend something.
I recently had "very spicy" Chinese food. On scale of 1-10 it was 6 at best. ( I am Indian). If you are looking for 9 or higher look for Hyderabadi or Andhra Indian food.
Yes. Rayalseema restaurants would be bio terrorism in the west 😂. Even most Indians can't tolerate the piquency of that food.
Whoever says i like spicy food shall be reminded that indian food is alot spicyer than you might think🥵
If I'm getting spicy food I always say 'white people spicy'. It always gets a good laugh and I usually get my food just right.
Sign me up for some authentic spicy Indian food. I am more than willing to have spice sweats for some damn good 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.
I once vouched for my (brother, best) friend at a South Asian restaurant. Told them in my language to give what he asked, and I would be responsible. I've never seen a human so happy. Love you my brother. Mike, may you always smile like that.
If you're not sweating profusely, it's not tasty.
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.
It’s when they all emerge from the kitchen to look over at you, you know you’ve made a mistake!
Whenever I eat spicy food my tongue stops working and all I can taste is bitter and pain
Skill issue.
Fun fact about spice tolerance. Many people think tolerance = resistance but that's not the case. After a certain point, people who love spicy foods report the same levels of spiciness compared to those who don't regularly eat it, it's just that they are used to it and even like it. So something that is a 10/10 spicy is the same level of spicy for everyone, it's just some masochists prefer it to be that way.
So when people say things like "oh that wasn't that spicy" it still usually is spicy. Their personality just prefers it that way so it doesn't bother them as much.
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.
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.
Just ate the spicy food absolute bliss😋
I love some spicey food. Fact my body doesn't seem to is it's problem! We eating spicey!
A little spice enhances flavor, a lot is just self-hazing.
I fucking love spicy food and I loved seeing people suffer with the food I would make them eat. Meanwhile I was fine watching them suffer as I ate my food. Anyway I'm lonely now and will probably never experience this sort of social interaction ever again.
I love curry!
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.
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...