spicy food in america is rarely ever actually hot
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Yes, this is well-known. Bring your own Blair's sauce to restaurants or make your own food at home. Exceptions include some parts of the South and smaller mom and pop restaurants in major cities.
Ah yes. All the spicy in little America is the same.
What lame town you at OP?
I have Xtra Hot Frank's hot sauce from Walmart.
It's nothing.
Burger joints will have Ghost pepper and Carolina Reaper sauces that are kind of hot.
But I don't think McDonald's will have anything more than jalepeno pepper hot.
Something that will make you jump up and down is not what they want to be serving to kids and stuff.
You have to be more specific. Do you mean mass produced food or local places? I live in an area with many Indian Restaurants. You can get food extremely spicy there. Also some local Korean and Chinese restaurants.
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im from chicago, we have tons of mexican places if i want actual spicy food but everything else that is more american is pretty bad
Yep there too. Also some local Jamaican Jerk can really burn you.
You can still get hella spicy food at Indian restaurants, mexican places, there are also wing joints that have insanely hot stuff, and there are entire shelves at stores containing hundreds of crazy hot sauces.
I think what you mean is, processed fast food in america, which is true. Like Arby's jalapeno poppers are just breaded green peppers.
I think what you mean is, processed fast food in america, which is true. Like Arby's jalapeno poppers are just breaded green peppers.
The mainstream stuff yeah, but if you look around there is much more spicier stuff that is more of a niche.
I'm from there too but your post has little to no information. What are you actually ordering or what type of food?
At Trader Joe's they have food labeled clearly as being "VERY spicy", or "Extra HOT!", and the stuff is as mild as mayonnaise. My heat tolerance isn't even that high, but I'm routinely disappointed by these offerings. My theory is that grandma wants to eat the habanero ice cream too, and we'd better not kill anyone, so make sure to label all level 2s as level 11.
These days when I want hot I go to the latin market and get the goods behind the counter. Now that's the stuff that will give you a proper ulcer.
These days when I want hot I go to the latin market and get the goods behind the counter. Now that's the stuff that will give you a proper ulcer.
So the problem is that a cuisine that is traditionally not spicy is... not spicy?
Chains in general are not gonna be super spicy and I think to some degree there may just be a corporate liability element to that. So yeah if you're getting an 'XTREME GHOST PEPPER BURGER' from Wendy's or something it's probably not gonna be xtreme ghost pepper hot. But in my experience(in the south, at least) independent restaurants, indian places, thai places, wing places, that kind of thing, you can get some real spicy stuff if you want.
Americans don't have bidets. They wipe a dry paper on their anuses hand of god. American anuses can't handle hot food. It's just that simple.
America is the land of a million cuisines, you can absolutely find spicy ass shit here. Stuff at a fast food restaurant probably is going to be incredibly mild, but spicy food is insanely popular right now and everyone is all about milking this fad. Hell, the spiciest peppers in the world are grown here. If you want legitimately spicy food, you can easily find it.
Ghost Pepper is GOAT.
Ghost Pepper is GOAT.
Yeah, I'm not exactly sure what you're looking for OP. If you want someone to fuck you up with spice, you can definitely find it. Up here in the tippy-top of Pennsylvania there are restaurants that will absolutely fuck your entire day up if you ask them to.
You have posted twice and you still haven't provided any detail as to what has not met your standard of heat.
It's not crazy spicy, but it does have a nice kick, and the flavor is lovely.
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i mean, it may not be traditionally hot but if its labeled as hot it should at least be noticeable.
As someone born and raised in LA, who also happens to be Mexican, mexican food comes through with the spice. But it's definitely not the only one. Indian food, thai food, jamaican food can all be plenty spicy.
Do you often go to different spots for food?
Same in Australia. I usually get a Madras or a Vindaloo here and it's fine.
When I went to the UK even the Madras left me sweating and sniffing. And it was consistent across their takeaways.
When I went to the UK even the Madras left me sweating and sniffing. And it was consistent across their takeaways.
Lol, I was just about to say the same thing. I prefer their ghost pepper and craft beer salsa's, when I went to restock a few weeks ago I saw the new art and it's so much worse than what they had before.
There is also a point to be made that "American" food isn't really all that much of a cuisine into itself. There are regional cuisines (New England, Midwestern [which has roots in Norwegian and Scandinavian cuisine], Pennsylvania Dutch, Tex-Mex, Cajun, Creole, Southern Soul, etc.) but there is no real cohesive American cuisine. Like the makeup of our citizenry, the food culture of the USA is a melting pot. If you're looking for spice on your burger and fries, there is probably a place that specializes in it. But your average joint isn't looking to cause people pain and probably doesn't carry scorpion peppers in the back.
There are countless bars serving boneless/bone-in wings with sauces that are so spicy that will absolutely ruin the food because all you taste is heat.
Almost every Thai restaurant has a "just fuck my shit up fam" option for spicyness.
Cant remember the last time I ate at an Italian or pizza restaurant that didn't have a jar of crushed red pepper.
But yeah fast food, fast casual, and chain family restaurants will go easy on spice because those places are more likely to refund a complaining customer who "didn't realize it'd be that hot" than a local mom and pop.
Almost every Thai restaurant has a "just fuck my shit up fam" option for spicyness.
Cant remember the last time I ate at an Italian or pizza restaurant that didn't have a jar of crushed red pepper.
But yeah fast food, fast casual, and chain family restaurants will go easy on spice because those places are more likely to refund a complaining customer who "didn't realize it'd be that hot" than a local mom and pop.
