November 19, 201015 yr Can you eat it? I can't. :disappointed: I just had a Mexican soup, and it was sooo spicy. :wreck: I had to get a piece of bread and some milk. :facepalm: I can only handle very little spice in my food. I even prefer it bland. :lol: How spicy can you take it, on a scale of one to ten, one being no spice and ten being your heart stops from the spice? :wacko:
November 19, 201015 yr Author I can only eat buffalo wings if I smother them in sour cream. :facepalm: But I only eat buffalo wings for the Superbowl. :wacky:
November 19, 201015 yr I prefer to taste the food rather than the spices added. I see really spicy things as like having loads of tomato ketchup then one chip.
November 19, 201015 yr I can't eat spicy food, it's actually laughable. I could eat about 2, 3 sometimes.
November 19, 201015 yr I'm weird with this topic, because at times I can be a bit of a wuss with it, and at other times I can fair very well (Vindaloo is regarded as THE spicey meal in most Indian restaurants, and I do actually enjoy it if I'm in the right mood, unfortunately it's hard to know what kinda mood I'm in, I have struggled with a plate of it before). I used to work with some Indian guys and they really tested my limits as to what I can eat. One of them in particular could handle any strength of spice, the rest could eat plates of spicey food that I could only handle trying a bit of, but this guy was nuts. They made an entire pot of curry (To feed about 6 people) and used a handful of these little peppers for the whole thing, and I tried the curry and even a spoon full was too hot for me, the guy laughed and ate one of the peppers raw. We were like WTF but he was absolutely fine, there was just no limit there. To put that in perspective, he basically ate the spicynes of over one plate of food which I couldn't even handle a mouthful of and the other guys could just about handle. So from that experience I don't know where to rate myself, because some people just don't have a limit, if I was to put us on a list I'd be 5, some of the guys would be 8, and the nuts guy would be 10. But I've put myself as 8 because I'm more comparing myself to friends and family, who don't deal at all well with spices (It's un-natural for Irish people haha).
November 19, 201015 yr Author I prefer to taste the food rather than the spices added. I see really spicy things as like having loads of tomato ketchup then one chip. Yeah, me too. :bomb: Sometimes when it's really spicy, all I taste is my pain and not the food. :freak: :lol: I can't eat spicy food, it's actually laughable. I could eat about 2, 3 sometimes. That's like me. :wacky: *high five* I'm weird with this topic, because at times I can be a bit of a wuss with it, and at other times I can fair very well (Vindaloo is regarded as THE spicey meal in most Indian restaurants, and I do actually enjoy it if I'm in the right mood, unfortunately it's hard to know what kinda mood I'm in, I have struggled with a plate of it before). I used to work with some Indian guys and they really tested my limits as to what I can eat. One of them in particular could handle any strength of spice, the rest could eat plates of spicey food that I could only handle trying a bit of, but this guy was nuts. They made an entire pot of curry (To feed about 6 people) and used a handful of these little peppers for the whole thing, and I tried the curry and even a spoon full was too hot for me, the guy laughed and ate one of the peppers raw. We were like WTF but he was absolutely fine, there was just no limit there. So from that experience I don't know where to rate myself, because some people just don't have a limit, if I was to put us on a list I'd be 5, some of the guys would be 8, and the nuts guy would be 10. But I've put myself as 8 because I'm more comparing myself to friends and family, who don't deal at all well with spices (It's un-natural for Irish people haha). That's crazy! :lol: But he could probably eat that much spice because he was used to it. :thinking: 8 is pretty impressive! :P
November 19, 201015 yr ^^ I think it's your Canadianess Reilly, cause yes that is unnatural for Irish people. Christina Oh yeah :cool3:
November 19, 201015 yr I like my tastebuds, I don't want to kill them so I can't enjoy things that aren't spicy. So eating very spicy things often is a no for me.
November 19, 201015 yr well I think after biting into a small young Pepperoni some years ago I can take it quite spicy It was the first day of school after the summer holidays and a friend of mine came over to me on the school yard before school had started...she gave me a very small perfect looking red pepperoni and said I should try it (she went to Sicily in her holidays)....well she was being ironic, but I didn't know that since I thought it was some kind of candy, because it was looking so perfect. so, I tried it. I tried a lot of it. My mouth was seriously burning. I think my head was super red. I went into the class and I was sitting in front row eating bread and trying anything just to get rid of that stuff in my mouth...it took me almost 2 hours to get rid of it. Never ever try Pepperoni for breakfast, esp. not when you are in school.... so yeah another thing I want to say about that. I think it has just to do with what you are used to. My Dad for example puts a lot of pepper on his food....I always tell him that he is eating pepper with food and not the other way round. And my mum feels offended of course, because she is the cook haha.... I am not really used to spicy food in general....it depends on the kind of spicy...
November 19, 201015 yr I hate it, but I eat it everyday. Or most food my mother makes is spicy. My friend eats a bag of spicy chips with chamoy and chile :sick: Looks like a bag of red shit .__.
November 19, 201015 yr I like my tastebuds, I don't want to kill them so I can't enjoy things that aren't spicy. So eating very spicy things often is a no for me. Spicy food does not physically kill your taste buds, though after having spicy food you may feel a numbness that gives the impression that your tastebuds are decreasing. My aforementioned Indian friend who could handle a lot of spice and was a great cook, I don't know if this is necessarily true but he attained that he had a better sense of tasting food after having pushed himself to the limits (Well actually he doesn't really have any). But the first part is true, spices work by tricking the brain into thinking you are trying something very hot, weird I know, but they don't actually affect your taste buds, only age does that. It was the first day of school after the summer holidays and a friend of mine came over to me on the school yard before school had started...she gave me a very small perfect looking red pepperoni and said I should try it (she went to Sicily in her holidays)....well she was being ironic, but I didn't know that since I thought it was some kind of candy, because it was looking so perfect. so, I tried it. I tried a lot of it. My mouth was seriously burning. I think my head was super red. I went into the class and I was sitting in front row eating bread and trying anything just to get rid of that stuff in my mouth...it took me almost 2 hours to get rid of it. Never ever try Pepperoni for breakfast, esp. not when you are in school.... Just a normal pepperoni?
November 20, 201015 yr Spicy food does not physically kill your taste buds, though after having spicy food you may feel a numbness that gives the impression that your tastebuds are decreasing. My aforementioned Indian friend who could handle a lot of spice and was a great cook, I don't know if this is necessarily true but he attained that he had a better sense of tasting food after having pushed himself to the limits (Well actually he doesn't really have any). But the first part is true, spices work by tricking the brain into thinking you are trying something very hot, weird I know, but they don't actually affect your taste buds, only age does that. Just a normal pepperoni? What do you mean with "normal"? Like the ones that you get over there on Pepperoni Pizza? Well, this one was a special one from sicily (I think) and it was young and small and had a lot of seeds....it was just awful
November 20, 201015 yr Author well I think after biting into a small young Pepperoni some years ago I can take it quite spicy It was the first day of school after the summer holidays and a friend of mine came over to me on the school yard before school had started...she gave me a very small perfect looking red pepperoni and said I should try it (she went to Sicily in her holidays)....well she was being ironic, but I didn't know that since I thought it was some kind of candy, because it was looking so perfect. so, I tried it. I tried a lot of it. My mouth was seriously burning. I think my head was super red. I went into the class and I was sitting in front row eating bread and trying anything just to get rid of that stuff in my mouth...it took me almost 2 hours to get rid of it. Never ever try Pepperoni for breakfast, esp. not when you are in school.... so yeah another thing I want to say about that. I think it has just to do with what you are used to. My Dad for example puts a lot of pepper on his food....I always tell him that he is eating pepper with food and not the other way round. And my mum feels offended of course, because she is the cook haha.... I am not really used to spicy food in general....it depends on the kind of spicy... That must have been some pepperoni! :anxious: I hate it, but I eat it everyday. Or most food my mother makes is spicy. My friend eats a bag of spicy chips with chamoy and chile :sick: Looks like a bag of red shit .__. Aw! :hug: Luckily, my mom hates spicy food too, so she rarely makes spicy food. That sounds awful. :|
November 20, 201015 yr What do you mean with "normal"? Like the ones that you get over there on Pepperoni Pizza? Well, this one was a special one from sicily (I think) and it was young and small and had a lot of seeds....it was just awful Yeah just a regular pepperoni you'd have on a pizza. If it had seeds then clearly not.
November 20, 201015 yr Like 5/10 maybe. My friend's boyfriend once made a really hot curry. I had to had loads of rice with it and I couldn't really taste anything. His son tasted it and thought it wasn't hot enough so he put loads of hot pepper sauce on it. Some people really don't seem to have any limit.
November 20, 201015 yr What do you mean with "normal"? Like the ones that you get over there on Pepperoni Pizza? Well, this one was a special one from sicily (I think) and it was young and small and had a lot of seeds....it was just awful Do you mean peppers? Pepperoni is a spicy sausage. Just asking because it means something completely different in German. :)
November 20, 201015 yr The scale was so... arbitrary :P Most Southeast Asians can consume spicy food up to scale 50, but I'm not one of them. :|
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