• Sickos [they/them, it/its]@hexbear.net
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    I remember making my first bowl of Buldak 2x at work and crying. My coworker came over to check on me and I managed to stutter out “these are tears of joy, I have found my new favorite ramen.”

    I love it so much. It does not love me back. That is okay.

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    They’re not even that spicy. At this point I’m starting to suspect it’s a gingers being immune to anesthetic or cilantro tasting like soap situation where we should stop making fun of them because it’s an actual medical condition.

  • sir_this_is_a_wendys [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    When I was a waiter, someone would ask to make a dish ‘as spicy as possible’ and then return it saying it was too spicy at least once a week. It was a white person 100% of the time.

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      Tbf I’ve meet an increasingly large number of non-kkkrackkker people who can’t handle spicy food. I have a First Nations friend who gets the runs from Buffalo wings. Heck my partner is half Ecuadorian and my honkey ass can handle spice better than them.

      I think some people just got sensitive stomaches shrug-outta-hecks

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        Most of the Americas does not have spicy cuisine. Domestication of chilis was a Mesoamerican & Andean thing and even today they haven’t spread to all cuisines in the hemisphere.

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        My stomach has never been the issue with spicy food. The issue is when there’s too much capsaicin, it is just agony in my mouth. It makes me fucking hiccup. And due to the physical properties of capsaicin if the food is too spicy every bite just makes it worse and the sensation takes forever to go away even while drinking milk.

        I really do not get why anybody seeks it out outside of some perverse “dudes rock” self flagellating thrill seeking. Things taste better when you use peppers that have flavor other than “ow”

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          Things taste better when you use peppers that have flavor other than “ow”

          honestly with you on this one. But I think everyone’s perception of where to draw that line will be different. I’ve had a lot of good ghost pepper based sauces, but I think a lot of people would say that’s well into “ow” territory. Habanero is also excellent, and depending how its prepared can be quite spicy.

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            I think ghost pepper is fine and can add a unique flavor but it’s really quantity dependent

            for me the perfect level of spicy is at the level of a hot paprika, like how I’ve been making the cajun food for work. I get that feeling of warmth, a lot of smoky pepper flavor, and I can always make it a little spicier with some cayenne. I get good enough reviews from my Turkish and Mexican coworkers and I think if I made it any spicier a majority of people would just refuse to eat it lol

            • Chronicon [they/them]@hexbear.net
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              not sure I’ve had a hot paprika

              cooking for a group is definitely different. Better to just offer sauces on the side in that case and make it to a lower spice level

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          I really do not get why anybody seeks it out outside of some perverse “dudes rock” self flagellating thrill seeking.

          Have you considered I like the thrill of eating the pain plant and it making my mouth go “AHHHHHHH!”

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        That might be COVID related if it’s recent. One of the ways flavours changed for my sister after her second bout was spiciness becoming much spicier, to the point of pain at even a very small amount.

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      I have done this, at which point I swallow my pride and my tears and shovel what I can in my face, ask for a to-go box, and eat it at home with plenty of fat on hand to fight the capsaicin.

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    That sucks. These noodles are very tasty. Also the package openly advertises how extremely spicy they are so I am not sure if a ban was necessary.

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      Well according to one parent “all the other spicy foods aren’t so spicy as to be dangerous, so it’s wrong actually”. Deeply embarrassing to admit that all the other spicy foods aren’t spicy (if you think the regular spice packets are abnormally spicy, then I don’t know what to say)

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    They literally tell you on the packet that if it is too spicy, you should use less of the spice powder. There’s solutions that don’t involve making flavour illegal.

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    I remember looking it up online and I believe the actual capsaicin levels were like 8000 for the regular but that there was just some funky chemistry that made them feel more spicy. Though I do feel like I might have made them spicier by forgoing making any broth and treating them more like an instant yakisoba.

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      I have a few theories on that. scoville doesn’t directly measure capsaicin, it measures how many times diluted you need to make a concentrated extract of the pepper before the heat is undetectable in sugar-water. So how it applies to sauces is unclear to me. You could take the scoville rating of the underlying peppers, or you could directly dilute the sauce itself, or you could somehow make an extract of the sauce itself and test that.

      So maybe that rating is misleading because of ambiguity in how its measured, or the sheer quantity of oily sauce, its not like a little dab of vinegar-based hot sauce, it sticks

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      Very much so. It’s because a parent complained that their child ate one “with pink packaging” WHICH ISNT EVEN ONE OF THE SPICY ONES. And now there’s scores of parents applauding the initiative. I feel like a libertarian crying about a “nanny state”.

      Edit: no child ate one and got sick, see further down the thread for the even dumber story

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          In Germany some unspecified number of children have previously gotten food-poisoning equivalent symptoms from ingesting too spicy chiliproduct some have apparently been admitted to hospitals. In Denmark there’s apparently a tiktok-trend of challenging each other to eat Buldak spicy noodles. Some “confounded customer” decided to ask the danish FDA wether it could really be true that it was legal to sell these spicy chili ramen packets since some kids in germany at one point ate chili and got admitted to the ER. The danish FDA decided that because some children in Germany at one point got an upset tummy from eating too much spice (from ramen? who knows, they don’t say) it cannot allow the sale of “incredibly spicy instant noodles packages” like… Spicy ramen. The consumer asked about the ones in pink packaging which also aren’t spicy ramen so?
          I could kind of understand the 3x one, maybe, but they’ve banned the regular one as well.

    • Are_Euclidding_Me [e/em/eir]@hexbear.net
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      Wait, really? I definitely buy them sometimes (not the pictured ones, the purple one, habanero … something flavor?) and I know I checked ingredients. Did I really miss eggs? That seems unlikely, but I’ll have to check carefully next time I see them.

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    The 2x spicy ones are so much spicier than the “2x” would make you think, can’t imagine the 3x spicy ones could possibly be any fun and I say that as someone who very regularly eats spicy food

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      The 3x one is instant pain on mouth contact hot, from someone who can eat 2x without issue.

      Kinda tastes worse though, its fairly bitter.

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          I should also specify that I don’t flinch at most Thai chili pastes and dishes, but the 3x spicy Buldak made my teeth hurt. The cheese one is nice if you doctor it up with extra cheese, green onions, garlic, and maybe some kimchi.

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          Even the 1x one is going to fuck you up if you don’t eat spicy enough things to build tolerance. Spice tolerance is a thing you train.

          Right now I’d probably struggle with 1x due to how bland my depresso diet has been.