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.
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.
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.
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.
There’s an Indian place near me that does these things called devil potatoes and they’re amazingly spicy. I love them.
I eat everyday it’s not that spicy.
Edit - I said this in a sarcastic way. I know it’s spicy.
There’s a huge variation in spice levels with Indian food. Tika masala != Vindaloo
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 love some spicey food. Fact my body doesn’t seem to is it’s problem! We eating spicey!
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.
Every now and again I crave sweat inducing, tear rolling spice, it does hurt and it is spicy but somehow I get a buzz out of it… Kinda bizzare really.
I’m fairly certain that tolerance does mute the spiciness of foods. There are foods others struggle with that I hardly notice is even spicy.
It feels more like building a muscle than building a skill.
Yes, your tastebuds become “jaded.” It’s part of why little kids don’t tend to like any spiciness at all.
Genetics play a bit of a factor and your taste buds do develop more as you get older. But if you’re comparing tongue for tongue, the tingly/pain sensations are rated to be more or less the same.
My jerk chicken isn’t hot enough unless I’m crying from both my eyes and my nose after 5 wings. Anything less and it’s just mild jerk wings.
Just ate the spicy food absolute bliss😋
My spice tolerance definitely increased after living in Sichuan Province for 6 months.
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.
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 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.
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.
I love milk!
It might be lassi or spicey buttermilk
