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JanwayDaahl posted...

wwinterj25 posted...

Why must every food be covered in spice in order to taste good?

Not every food needs to, but like I said, the food Americans are used to is just unusually bland compared to those of many other countries. Applies to many european cuisines as well.

Spicyness is generally more prevalent in foods from hotter climates. The closer to the Equator you get, the hotter the food tends to be. It's a function both of how human digestion works, as well as which plants grow where (ie, what each culture would have had access to in a world before global trade was a thing).

It's not entirely surprising that a culture and ethnicity rooted in some of the most northern climes is going to prefer blander food as a whole. Which still isn't a universal trait (regardless of things like the joke about how all white people love mayonnaise and hate hot sauce in Undercover Brother), but it is an understandable trend.

That being said, if you feel the need to slather every meal you eat in either tons of spices or lots of condiments, then either your taste buds are broken or you're trying to cover up the taste of terrible food - neither of which is something to be proud of.


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