Poll of the Day > When ordering spicy food, just how spicy do you like it?

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And how white are you? I typically order Medium, and I'm so white Commander Keen ain't got feces on me (otherwise known as shit).
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As spicy as the can make it plus some

I'm German/Irish so
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Spicy, but not so spicy that there is no flavor and its all about the hot feeling and the endorphin rush. that's no fun

example: If at a thai place, I like it hot but not "thai hot"
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So white I'm nearly transparent. Hate spicy foods of any kind...they give me severe heartburn.
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Korean spicy
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Mild to medium. I like a little kick, but like Reggie said, too hot and it's not even worth eating.
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I'm non-white and prefer whatever constitutes as medium.

Recently went to a Vietnamese place and had a spicy peanut pho with beef slices that was overall underwhelming since I've had better Chinese versions but at least the heat level was a little over medium which was fine with me until the next day when it gave me indigestion and came out the other end...
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If my anus doesn't taste it later it wasn't spicy enough
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I enjoy spicy food, but the problem for me is that I often don't like the flavor that a lot of hot sauces and other things that give food that spiciness have. It really makes me appreciate the few things I've found that are still spicy without the strange flavors.
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At Taco Bell I put a packet of diablo, fire and hot sauce in every burrito. A couple of weeks ago I had a bag of extra hot flaming hot cheetos. I love those foods, but those are nearing my limit of enjoyable spiciness. Too much beyond that and I do it for the challenge, not for the taste.

I one, as a penalty, had to each an entire clove of garlic in one bite. Surprisingly (to me anyway) that was by far the spiciest thing I've ever had. If you've never tried it and like spicy, give it a try.
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None, according to a friend "whiter" people can't tolerate spicy food, I tried many times and spice always feels like pain in my tongue. Also I suffer from heartburns so nope
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Medium. I like a little bit of a kick but also like to taste the food I'm eating.
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I put cayenne in most savory things, but for me that's more or less baseline. The local deli makes a perfect spicy beef jerky using ghost peppers which is close to the upper limit, though. I've been told by people working in the processing building a few blocks away where they do all the curing/smoking/butchering that they have to wear hazmat suits to clean the jerky room after they make a batch of that stuff, hahaha. Sometimes you'll find a largish chunk of a pepper in the bottom of the bag, which are even hotter than the jerky but taste really good since they went through the smoking as well.


Lazy_Haar posted...

I enjoy spicy food, but the problem for me is that I often don't like the flavor that a lot of hot sauces and other things that give food that spiciness have. It really makes me appreciate the few things I've found that are still spicy without the strange flavors.

Ah, yeah, I have a bit of the same problem. Too many "hot" sauces are more tangy than spicy(or at least lack a savory quality), so I don't like them at all. Tabasco, for example. On the other end of the spectrum you have something like Blair's Mega/Ultra Death, which do have a nice flavor but it's very subtle and is drowned out by the heat.
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If it makes me to shed some tears, its too hot for me.
Im asian lol
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i loved when taco bell had those "degree of heat griller's". always got the 3rd degree one (actually several of them) think it was the ghost pepper one.

also like the 5 alarm sauce at taco time though it seemed to not be as hot as it used to be.
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I like it mild.
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none oe mild

i'm not white at all
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I'm German/Scandinavian/Celtic and I generally like things pretty spicy. I make my own hot sauce and love adding Thai Chillis and Jalapenos to anything I can. However, I never order the hottest stuff or tell people I like things spicy when they cook for me, because then it just turns into a pissing contest where they over power all the flavor with spice just so they can go, "Oh yeah? I thought you liked it spicy?".

SmokeMassTree posted...

As spicy as the can make it plus some

faramir77 posted...

If my anus doesn't taste it later it wasn't spicy enough

Also am white
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I usually ask for the spiciest they got. Except for Buffalo wing places. Their's is usually just a painful burning that I can't get out of mouth.
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Three
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Medium to High Spice. Really depends on if the spiciness actually enhances the dish or just turns into burning.
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We don't talk about the poll here.

Usually none. I don't really care for spicy food. When there is a food that I like to be spicy the highest I'd go is medium.
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Mild to medium.

Definitely more than medium, but yeah if you only feel the heat its pointless.
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Mild for me.

Hot enough to burn my mouth but mild enough to not burn my asshole
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I can't stand that much, I am very sensitive to nearly all tastes. I am okay if it's pretty mild.

I am around 37.5% Caucasian.
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So hot, like me.
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Spicy enough to enhance the flavor or add a kick, but not so spicy that it overpowers the flavor of the dish.
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Mexican food spicy (like around Habanero pepper).

I am as white as a goth kid in the Construct.
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I like it all the spicy.
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How about Chipotle's red spicy sauce? That is a pretty comfortable, tasty flavor going in. However, when it leaves your body, the real spiciness kicks in...

Squellvine posted...

How about Chipotle's red spicy sauce? That is a pretty comfortable, tasty flavor going in. However, when it leaves your body, the real spiciness kicks in...

Chipotle makes processed mush that tastes like ass and is eaten by people who don't know what good food tastes like.
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as spicy as a piece of white bread
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helIy posted...

as spicy as a piece of white bread

That's about how spicy my boyfriend prefers his food. I jokingly call him a wuss over it. xD
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