“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”.
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.
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.
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.
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”.
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.
I was told people in the upper Midwest thought ketchup was spicy. Perhaps the boomers. Everything here is hot chip.
“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”.
You joke but when I was a line cook I once had a dish sent back for being too spicy, and yes it was just black pepper.
honestly you gotta feel bad for someone like that, imagine how incredibly bland their food experience was as a kid
Sorry I miss placed my quotes. I wasn’t joking about black pepper. I meant to say “black pepper too spicy” is very real.
I was once told I use too many spices when I added more than three, the first two were salt and pepper.
Look up the origin of “deviled eggs” (paprika considered spicy lmao)
hm okay spicy i see
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.
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.
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”.
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.