One of my biggest mistakes was ordering “spicy” level Thai food. Took me about a week to finish it because I could only handle one bite every few hours.
My grandpa thought black pepper, as in salt and pepper, was too spicy. White guy born in 1933 in Australia, “ethnic food” didn’t arrive in his world for a while.
I mean, mexican spicy is way above white spicy. Hell, some white people consider pepper to be spicy. To be fair, mexican spice is still kinda low on the scale compared to thai etc.
Lmao. I’m from the Middle East and we eat spicy food regularly, but Indian spicy is on a whole new level for me. I’ve had their “hot” once and never again. I always get “medium”.
Same here, but I just realized how much I loved the Thai and Indian level of spice and now I’m the weirdo whose home garden is 75% “super hot” peppers.
One of my biggest mistakes was ordering “spicy” level Thai food. Took me about a week to finish it because I could only handle one bite every few hours.
One local Thai shop had the sense to offer both “
$nationalityspicy” and “thai spicy”When my wife and talk about spice level, we clarify if it’s white-boy spicy or Hispanic spicy.
The Venn diagram is a circle?
My grandpa thought black pepper, as in salt and pepper, was too spicy. White guy born in 1933 in Australia, “ethnic food” didn’t arrive in his world for a while.
I mean, mexican spicy is way above white spicy. Hell, some white people consider pepper to be spicy. To be fair, mexican spice is still kinda low on the scale compared to thai etc.
That’s because spicy has multiple meanings. The numbing of pepper is spicy but not hot spicy.
You’ll find white people in Mexico.
Yeah, white-boy spicy is an imperfect term, but helpful to stop an Anglo unused to high levels of chilli from having a bad time.
That’s pretty universal at Thai places. There’s hot and then Thai hot.
Lmao. I’m from the Middle East and we eat spicy food regularly, but Indian spicy is on a whole new level for me. I’ve had their “hot” once and never again. I always get “medium”.
Same. I grew up eating habanero and jalapeno peppers, but Thai and Indian hits different.
Same here, but I just realized how much I loved the Thai and Indian level of spice and now I’m the weirdo whose home garden is 75% “super hot” peppers.