• dead [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    The article is about superhot peppers like Carolina Reaper, Ghost Peppers, etc. It’s not about jalapenos. Have you ever ate a Carolina Reaper? Carolina reaper is around 400 times hotter than a jalapeno. Most people can not eat them. If you have not, you should try it.

    I grew Habaneros this year and people told me they were too hot. I’ve grown Carolina Reapers, Ghost Peppers, Trinidad Scorpion previously.

    Also want to point out that article titles are not written by the article writer. Article titles are written by the newspaper editor and are sometimes not accurate to the content of the article.

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      “Ketchup too spicy” is an expression like saying “vanilla ice cream too hot”. “Black pepper too spicy” is very real. And its not just boomers its mostly anyone with Swedish ancestry.

      Miracle Whip is also too is too zesty for them. So you can say “mayo too spicy”.

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            The word “devil” as applied to food first appears in 1786, when it was used to describe a “(highly seasoned) fried or boiled dish”

            hm okay spicy i see

            The eggs are boiled, cooled, shelled, and then sliced in half. The yolk is then removed and mixed with other ingredients, such as mayonnaise, mustard, vinegar, pickle relish, and other spices and herbs. It is then blended into a smooth paste which is used to fill the hollowed-out egg whites. They are generally served cold and are often dusted with paprika.

            i-cant

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              Maybe back then they only had “spicy” mustard? Even still when I looked that up one day just out of curiosity I found that definition and found it very very funny.

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              Pickle, vinegar, and mustard could definitely combine for an extremely powerful flavor profile if they were the right kind. “Other spices and herbs” is doing a lot of lifting here too.

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      When I was in college, my mother (from MA) visited and asked where I got “the spicy ketchup”. It was Heinz. Just plain Heinz.

      Now I live in a place where “spicy” means “Frank’s”, but we have some Thai places that don’t fuck around with their spice, and I’ve gotten food with multiple people over the years who couldn’t eat the zero-star spicy level after ordering it. These are the same kind of people who don’t go to Thai restaurants because they “wouldn’t know what to order”.

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        I ate at a Thai place about an hour south of Minneapolis. Kind of the middle of nowhere. When they say “what spice level?” I always ask “what does 5 mean?” And this particular guy said “the chef thinks he still lives in Thailand”

        It was excellent at 4. I did sweat through my shirt though.

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    One time I went to a restaurant with a bunch of friends. One of my friends had baby potatoes with herbs and oil. He said they were too spicy

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    Got a chicken sandwich at a brewery the other day and they confirmed with me twice “you know it’s spicy right?”

    When it comes out, it was two chicken tenders with lettuce and a dab of Texas Pete…

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    I ordered pad thai yesterday and the waiter asked me how spicy on a scale of 1-5 and I said “Gimme a white boy 2” and he laughed and then he went in the back to tell his boss and he laughed too. You know what I totally could have handled a 3 but it was delicious