I eat food
I really do love saying other white people don't like spicy food
only white people i knew who really legitimately disliked spices were my grandparents who were raised on like, porridge and boiled potatoes during the depression
combined with those posts that are like 'british people eat like the germans are still bombing them' i think theres just an enduring quality of poor white people food (and subsequently 'traditional') that is just devoid of spice because the good ones don't grow in europe and they couldn't afford to buy em
i think theres just an enduring quality of poor white people food (and subsequently ‘traditional’) that is just devoid of spice because the good ones don’t grow in europe and they couldn’t afford to buy em
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For stomach related reasons my grandparents don't eat super spicy foods. Can affect acidity and such I believe
Personally, I am exempt from the historical crimes of white people because I put some siracha on my chicken nuggets
siracha
Ha! That’s not real spice. This is real hot sauce *pulls out some random jar with a label that has similar energy to labels on craft beer *
IMO the best hot sauce is pepper flakes or crushed peppers. Fresh peppers and dried peppers are also good if you're adding it while cooking and not after.
it's not really hot sauce but... putting chinese chili crisp on things is my favorite "spicy" topping
Sriracha is a good, mild sauce that can go on a lot of things without clashing, but the best sauces are just pure hot pepper mush with the minimum of ingredients needed to keep them shelf stable. The big issue with them is that they need to be properly paired because especially the hotter peppers can have extremely strong flavors of their own, like scorpion peppers are intensely tangy in a very odd and unique way and even just a little will overwhelm a dish with that flavor, even when a scorpion pepper sauce is diluted down to only moderately warm levels of heat.
I am the white person who doesn't like spicy food :shrug-outta-hecks:
If food hurts your mouth you're not supposed to eat it
You can leave them on if you're not eating it and are a little pain piggy
Pineapple juice has an enzyme called bromelin that breaks down meat, the inside of your mouth is also made out of meat
me with chapped lips and an acidic hole forming through my tongue: one more sweet yellow circle please
I once ate an entire pineapple as a meal
Core and all
God my mouth hurt that day
I always thought that pineapple was supposed to make me all itchy and sweaty and red but it turns out I’m actually just allergic to pineapple
Reminds me of that kid who kept getting "potato sweats" and was like "Man, I love potatoes, but I just hate getting them potato sweats" and all their friends were like "Uhh, no, that's not a thing"
Lol I had this with bananas. Was talking to a friend, went something like "Hey, you know how bananas make your mouth all tingly?" "...What? No they don't"
This is why we're keeping reddit after the revolution. People need a forum to vent about how obnoxious it is that pears make your cheeks puffy so people can tell them "It's not supposed to do that you have an allergy.
Would Reddit actually be ok, sans capitalism? It might be possible
Yeah it's pretty good for that, and the guy who posted about weird things happening around his place and a commenter correctly diagnosing the issue as a carbon monoxide leak.
If y'all are getting hurt when you eat it then it sure doesn't sound like I'm the one doing anything wrong
Pineapple contains enzymes that break down muscle tissue. That's part of why it's so great for marinating meat.
If you were to sit and eat like a pound or more of raw, fresh pineapple it absolutely would give you chemical burns unless you took precautions like washing your mouth out with water frequently. The bromelain in it breaks down the protective lining in your mouth and the acidity of the juice starts dissolving the now-unprotected flesh, but you really have to just be completely soaked in it for a while for that to happen.
Smaller quantities and pineapple that's cooked, mixed into other foods, or that's even just been sitting in the fridge for a few days doesn't have the same effect.
As a Puerto Rican, I usually have to deal with questions like "What are those weird little things in your rice?" and "Why are you eating banana slices with your beans?"
My favorite though was when I was eating some Taco Bell and they had accidentally given me Hot sauce instead of Fire sauce and I said "Goddamn it"
My coworker looks over and says "Oh yeah, can't handle that stuff, even the mild is too much really"
I just went :yea:
My grandmother legitimately thinks French's yellow mustard is too hot.
My grandma considers anything past a pinch of pepper too spicy.
it is though. i love a powerful mustard but why the fr*nch gotta put wine in everything?
I like food a little spicy but there's a very fine line between enjoyably spicy and "I start hiccupping, tears, why, why god"
The hiccups are the worst. I really wish I could get that reaction under control because I otherwise like spicy food. But wow those hiccups can really ruin a meal.
You have to embrace the pain. Your entire nervous system deciding that you're on fire and about to die is part of the experience.
This is one of those Americanisms that confuse me. Food in my country isn't typically spicy at all, but we're supposedly a region that can't get enough of it due to everyone thinking we're just an extension of Mexico.
Yeah in a lot of Latin America spicy food is not common or popular at all, but most Americans I know seem to think every Spanish speaking country has the spiciest food.
I think a lot of it is because of the large amount of Americans with Mexican and Puerto Rican ancestry. They're the ones I saw the most pushing that "you know you're Latino if you eat spicy food like it's nothing" stuff the most.
I'm white but I've always hated mayo, which is why I've never quite felt connected to my heritage.
It's not really mayonnaise unless it comes from the Maillot region of France
I'm guilty of this but I'm also a dumbass who will eat spicy stuff until I'm incapacitated and writhing in pain.
Went to an Indian restaurant with some friends years ago and one of them thought that the waiter wanted to know what the physical temperature of his curry should be "Well of course I want it hot!" It was virtually inedible.
I'm one of the people OP is referencing, I like it hot and I like making fun of other whiteys who don't.
HOWEVER, be very fucking careful when you ask for hot at indian restaurants. Depending on the the town and establishment there may be a hotter level than they generally offer, and DO NOT tell the waiter that you want it "really hot" and that you "love spice".
Because he will laugh at you, and then you will have to eat it because of the dumb shit you said, and when he comes to check on the table you will have to blubber out through the tears "it's delicious".
Lmfao one time I ran sound at an Indian wedding and had this exact experience
It's always fun going to a restaurant you've never been too and trying to figure out whether the food is white people hot or really hot.
Same except not as much anymore bc I took a big break from eating spicy food and lost most of my tolerance lol
In San Antonio there’s a place that sells a burger called the four horseman burger they put jalapeños, seranos, habaneros, and ghost peppers on. Anyway when I was in college my dumb ass roommate told me he’d try it so we went to get it. He threw up lol
jalapeños, seranos
Meh
habaneros
OK, those can be a bit much, admittedly, but...
ghost peppers
MRS. OBAMA, GET DOWN!
i want to go to san antonio some time, i went a few times during grade school for various reasons but i never really got to just like, go around. not gonna eat that burger though lol
San Antonio is just a giant sprawling suburb...you're not missing much.
It didn’t look like a good time haha. SA is cool, I haven’t been but a few times myself but my partner and I went a few years back for her bday. Lot of good food (that doesn’t count as an act of self violence), the water walk thing is neat to do at least once.
I knew a white dude who would put all kinds of random spices on their food in disgusting quantities to try to prove that German-Americans could eat spicey food. They bought ghost pepper salsa that they never ate as part of this image. Despite this, they could not handle their white neighborhood's Thai food. White America's relationship to spicy food is pathological.
I knew a white dude who would put all kinds of random spices on their food in disgusting quantities to try to prove that German-Americans could eat spicey food
my favorite bit is saying that white people can't eat spicy food even though I can barely handle hot sauce
