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[-] DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

Man, that Indian restaurant reference is just fucking spot on

[-] DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 2 months ago

One local Thai shop had the sense to offer both "$nationality spicy" and "thai spicy"

[-] DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago

When my wife and talk about spice level, we clarify if it's white-boy spicy or Hispanic spicy.

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca -4 points 2 months ago

The Venn diagram is a circle?

[-] meekah@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

That's because spicy has multiple meanings. The numbing of pepper is spicy but not hot spicy.

You'll find white people in Mexico.

[-] teslekova@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[-] teslekova@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

That's pretty universal at Thai places. There's hot and then Thai hot.

[-] DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

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”.

[-] DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

Same. I grew up eating habanero and jalapeno peppers, but Thai and Indian hits different.

[-] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

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.

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