• glimmer_twin [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I literally had some Karen demand mayo instead of aioli for her fries at my work once because “aioli is too spicy”.

    We don’t have mayo at my work because aioli is literally just mayo with garlic in it.

    Spicy garlic folks. Imagine eating her cooking.

    • Good_Username [they/them,e/em/eir]
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      4 years ago

      And here I thought the time someone on a British cooking show was making sriracha mayo and said something like "I have to be careful not to add too much sriracha, because it's really quite hot" was bad. Like, you're mixing it with mayo. No amount of sriracha is going to make your mayo too spicy. I've tried.

      But saying aioli is too spicy? That's orders of magnitude worse. That person must just hate flavor, it's the only explanation.

      • SerLava [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Once watched a 60 year old woman ask for no yellow mustard because it's "too spicy."

      • lvysaur [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Question, why do white folks say "seracha"? Also, why do they pronounce turmeric as "tooooomeric"

    • Provastian_Jackson [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      lol nice. Like anybody over 60 has bizarre definitions of "spicy". Sometimes they are actually talking about "spices" but using the same word.

      You have to be half a mind reader to know when they mean spices and when they mean heat.

      • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I've heard people refer to capsaicin, horseradish, garlic, onions, and vinegar as "spicy." Sometimes I think they really just mean "making my tongue feel stuff"

      • lvysaur [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Technically peppers are piquant, not spicy. Spicy originally referred to spices in general.

    • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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      4 years ago

      My old supervisor said Adobo was too spicy and I was very confused

  • gayhobbes [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    That looks like it's written in British English, a people who conquered the world for spices that they then never put in their food.

    • umjl [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      "Bell pepper" isn't British English. All the google hits for these are from Nordic countries. Apparently Nordic people like eating mild snacks with packaging in a mixture of British and American English?

      • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
        hexagon
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        4 years ago

        In Finland, the English taught in schools is primarily British English and the English used in official contexts uses BrE spellings

        I assume it's the same for the other Nordic countries

        “Bell pepper” isn’t British English.

        Yes, you guys call them... peppers. Thankfully that's not confusing at all

        Between this and the extra l in the word chili, I have to conclude that the inhabitants of the British Isles and the genus Capsicum just don't mix

      • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Canada uses the word bell pepper and British English spelling of flavour. Lol, googling it I got that the Canadian equivalent to this flavour of doritos is "pure paprika".

        • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
          hexagon
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          4 years ago

          This is the first time I've ever seen a "red bell pepper" flavour snack of any type, paprika is pretty common flavour for eg Pringles though.

          (Confusingly, paprika is also what we call red bell peppers in Finnish, but in snack flavouring I assume it refers to the spice also called paprika)

          • Barabas [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            The flavouring on these will be paprika. Paprika is just bell pepper/capsicum powder.

            The problem is that the anglos can't decide on what to call it. Same with coriander.

      • gayhobbes [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        What the fuck is up with the Anglo-American hegemon? Americans freak the fuck out if they see bilingual packaging, can you imagine how much they'd flip if it was like this?

        • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
          hexagon
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          4 years ago

          There's a ton of countries and languages in Europe, and even for smaller regions like the Nordic countries it makes sense to just use English for branding purposes (the ingredients are listed in the back in a bunch of different languages)

            • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
              hexagon
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              4 years ago

              You're required by law to have a list of ingredients in Finnish and Swedish (the whole two official languages thing), but the sheer amount of English you see looking around at the shelves at your average supermarket does feel a bit weird sometimes. It gets even weirder when Finnish companies make products that are mainly in English

              • gayhobbes [he/him]
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                4 years ago

                Yeah like, shoe on the other foot, imagine me going into an American grocery store and the ingredients are in English but everything else is in Chinese.

                Chuds would break their thumbs tweeting.

                • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
                  hexagon
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                  4 years ago

                  Do most people also read and speak Chinese to at least some extent through sheer cultural osmosis in this alternate universe

                  • gayhobbes [he/him]
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                    4 years ago

                    Honey even in this alternate universe you know Americans ain't gonna know a second language

  • Brendan_McCoy [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Kay, now when I want the Sweet Spicy Chili doritos, gotta make sure I say that instead of purple.

    • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      One day I wish to make a pilgrimage to America to sample your myriad exotic varieties of Doritos and Mountain Dew, especially the fabled Baja Blast

  • Sentnear [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    You’re saying mayo people don’t have culture? Um, think again sweaty

  • Koa_lala [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    If I'm not crying and sweating it's not hot damnit! More peppers!