I promise I'm not actually white. Seriously just give me food with authentic flavor.

  • Thallo [love/loves]
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    2 months ago

    It's super annoying when I ask for spicy food and the worker is like, "okay, but it's spicy, is that okay?"

    "Yes, I asked for spicy"

    "But it's spicy, are you sure?"

    "Yes"

    Brings food

    It's not spicy.

    The best places have a number scale and you can just clearly pick your spice level

    • Ithorian [comrade/them]
      hexagon
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      2 months ago

      Thats basically what happens to me a lot. If people ask "are you sure" I do tell them I'm Puorto Rican, I just look like a cracker.

      • LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        There's an excellent local burger place near me that has a ghost pepper chicken sandwhich. I've ordered it three times now and it never reaches the level of a particularly angry jalapeno, and yet every time I am warned repeatedly

    • Yukiko [she/her]
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      2 months ago

      The number scale needs adopted more often. I've never been to such a place, but I've been watching videos lately and saw a few restaurants with them. I kind of want to visit such a place now.

      • Thallo [love/loves]
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        2 months ago

        It's not perfect because each restaurant would have a different scale, but at least it's something, and you can figure a restaurant out if you go there a few times

        • Yukiko [she/her]
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          2 months ago

          Exactly. Unfortunately, there's no such place around where I live, so I have to just trust them whenever they say it's "spicy." Even the same place tends to not even be consistent. Like, I love mapo tofu. It's one of my favorite dishes of all time. Mapo tofu should be spicy. Tongue-numbing spicy. As in it's the kind of dish Mao spoke about. This one place I get from either gives me the most tepid mapo tofu where there's no spice whatsoever, or it's so hot that sweat beads on my forehead. I much prefer the latter.