That reminds me of an anecdote.

When I lived in Utah many years ago, we regularly had the visit of two colleagues from our London office. They would come and stay for a few days to work with us, and of course we entertained them in the evening.

One evening, we all decided to go for a curry. So we went to some Indian restaurant in Provo, UT if memory serves.

The waiters arrived - real Indians in full fake Raj regalia, as per the restaurant's theme - and took our orders.

Then they asked how spicy. The two Brits looked at each other and said in a low voice "Well, it's Utah, everything is bland here, so we'd better overdo it on the spiciness to get something halfway as spicy as a London curry."

So they announced "Nuclear."
"Are you sure?" the waiters said
"Yeah yeah. Nuclear!"
"Okay...."

15 minutes later, the waiters came back with our orders. Then instead of leaving, they turned and faced the two Brits and simply stood there with a total lack of expression on their faces.

The two went "Uh oh..."

It was the hottest curry they had ever had. They tried to put on a good show for the impassible waiters looking at them, but they quickly turned red and sweaty, and they had trouble not looking like they were panicking when reaching for the water.

We were pissing ourselves laughing 🙂

White Americans: mayonnaise is too spicy

Also white Americans: yeah the Carolina Butthole Annihilator goes well with pretty much everything

Is extra mild just tomato?

Isn't the human palette interesting. People enjoy the strangest flavors sometimes while others don't.

Kids love the sourest of candies, but won't eat cooked onions or red things. Adults by in large, don't like the same level of sour that children enjoy. But adults enjoy onions raw and often hot chili peppers. I'm fine with strong levels of heat in foods. But I see no reason to use insane levels of heat to try and prove how manly someone might be. I want to taste all the ingredients in the dish, not just one thing. Like Thanos and Buddhist monks, I strive for balance in all things flavor.

I enjoy flavors that most here would run screaming from. I love strong vinegary flavors. I enjoy oaky, tannic bourbons and teas. The iron and mineral flavors of organ meats. And I have noticed lately that I very much enjoy that taste of black pepper, like stupid amounts of it. I even found a small enjoyment of cranberries as I get older. But it's still all about the balance.

The normal one isn't even spicy, my 3 year old can eat it, and could when she was 2.

That said, the Sainsbury's own fajita kit is superior.

Better yet, make you own fajita seasoning and use non UPF wraps.

British people happily eat hot curries so maybe extra mild is for grans or something. Even the mild salsa has almost zero heat on it.

The UK is actually generally fine with spicy food, but my relatives in Poland could barely handle mildly spicy food, so yeah

That is so funny. I do have an ex mother out-law who cannot eat onion because she says it's too spicy. She is somehow still a good cook.

I really like spicy food. Don't need everything to be spicy but I like the spicy stuff to be very spicy.

A. Yes, there are definitely people here in the UK who can't handle anything spicier than gravy.

B. They're in the minority.

C. I refuse to believe you don't know someone like that, no matter where you're from.

Its weird. Australians are badasses. Why can't they eat like badasses?

I legitimately can't tell the difference between their mildest and hottest. It's like 0.3% vs. 0.4% hot.

There are people who can’t handle spice - in Oz every curry house and pub serves Butter Chicken, which is somehow even milder than Tikka Massala, and even Madras often has cream in it. On the other hand curry houses in Bradford do tinderloo for when vindaloo just isn’t hot enough, which is just daft as a rogan josh is already decently spicy there.

I'd be quite surprised. The USA and Aus have quite a bit of spicy influence. India for UK, Thai for aus...sure many people don't like spicy food but most do.

I loved in UK for a bit and remember being quite surprised that fàst food, like burger king, had proper spicy food.

I love spicy food, but my mum can't even handle black pepper. Lol. Lmao even

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