If mayo is too spicy for you, gulag. If you eat ghost peppers because you want to feel pain, also gulag. All food shall be of average to moderately spiciness according to the opinion of a middle aged man from India. Seriously fuck chicken wing places that dab inedible hot sauce on the corpse of animal that died to be food that’s barely edible. White people, I fucking hate them.
It’s the spicy food equivalent of dumping a jug of high fructose corn syrup on a cake and declaring that you’ve made the cake better. T
he only thing funnier are the places that talk up how dangerously hot their food is (I had one pizza place ask me to sign a waiver before they would let me order the hottest pizza) and then it’s only middlingly hot by Sichuan/Thai/Indian/Mexican standards.
A lot of westerners don’t understand that umami and heat pair extremely well. It should be taught in any and every culinary school on the planet. Salt and pepper go together, umami and heat go together. Hot and sour is good, and I think that’s generally the school of thought in the Americas is for hot sauces (Cholula, Tabasco, Frank’s Red Hot, buffalo sauce in general, Tapatio). Don’t get me wrong, vinegar and/or citrus does improve the flavour better than just straight up heat like an edgelord, and I do really like vinegar based hot sauces. But MSG/Mushrooms/etc that’s savoury? Not nearly as well understood.
I distinctly remember making a spicy mapo dofu for some white people and the consensus was “oh, that’s a nice level of spice, it’s very hot but not too hot!”
It was MSG. In fact I didn’t put table salt in the dish, all the sodium in the entire dish was msg and soy sauce. I bought the chili peppers from the same place as anyone else, Woolworths. I didn’t have a magically less spicy but still spicy strain, I simply complimented the heat with other flavours.
This culture needs to fucking die!!!