This is mild racism.
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It's taco bell, it's all mild sauce
Doesn't feel mild coming out the other end.
That probably has nothing to do with the sauce
Everybody watch out, we got a badass over here.
I just believe words have meaning
If Taco Bell has sauces that are Hot, Fire, and Diablo then what are other actual hot sauces called?
It's hyperbole, like someone saying their chicken wings were AMAZING.
If by some miracle Jesus came down from heaven and made sweet love to you all night what would you call it? They've already wasted AMAZING on a damn chicken wing.
credit to Louis CK for the Jesus bit
If Taco Bell has sauces that are Hot, Fire, and Diablo then what are other actual hot sauces called?
Hot sauce has a long history of hyperbole with marketing. I get that a lot of folks have a preference for high spice (I am one) and the pinch of cayenne that goes into a fancy fruit pie or taco bell sauce packet is going to be barely detectable, but I cook a lot for other folks and if someone says they don't like any spice then diablo will ruin their night.
I'd call that shit biblical, messianic. Miraculous, even.
I probably wouldn't enjoy it though because I don't like men that way.
Salt is often a bit too spicy for me
This is why we need better language describing spices in English. We have salty spices and spicy hot spices. Even if spicy hot spices there are three very different and distinct chemicals that make spicy hot spices.
That's not even to begin to tackle the question of how to talk about the levels of the spice.
Wait what are the salty spices other than salt?
Think like an everything bagel. A lot of the stuff one foods like that may be considered spicy but not hot. Like if you just dumped Anton of seasoning on something you might say "it's too spicy" but not mean hot.
Is taco bell mild sauce just a packet of air?
Medium sauce is water with pepper sprinkled in.
I'd say it's racist if they try to "protect" you from spicier sauces. Like if you ask for medium and they try to give you mild.
I am white but my name is not. I also don't do hotter than fresh jalapeños, but enjoy a tamed heat on the plate (like the BWW spicy garlic sauce). It's always a gamble ordering food. Usually it's either too mild or too hot. With too mild I can just put hot sauce on my own, at least.
That podcast is hilarious for all the wrong reasons. They are not only race reductionists but they basically boil everything down to individual attitudes and beliefs.
One of the most egregious ones was when they told people not to practice speaking people’s native languages with them and to hire a tutor! Dumbest fucking people, they are equally as smart as MAGA.
The language tutoring lobby got to them...
A guy I work with once went with his two black friends to their local chip shop, owned by a big Jamaican guy.
He was the only white person in there, and when he placed his order, the owner went "Dja want gravy wit dat? White people always want graavyy".
He did want gravy.
I'm white and I want gravy
Racial profiling in food is just an attempt to deliver the customer what they want. It would be the most benign form.
I'm oldish and pasty white, I have a hell of a time getting Mexican places to make it proper hot.
That said, I do love me potatoes and gravy...
"How dare you! But yes."
In fairness, gravy is the tits
My wife is white and every time she gets forks and spoons at a Asian restaurant, she's absolutely delighted. She can use chopsticks, just not well.
I feel like the stereotype has trended binary recently: white dudes are either the "black pepper is too spicy" type, or they're the chili heads who mainline reapers
As a white girl, I like medium peppers and can occasionally enjoy a habeñero sauce but I'll feel it. The thing is it's just unremarkable, so I rarely say it. Most white people in my life like how spicy I cook things. That said my mom actually did think black pepper was too spicy.
I like stuff that's hot but not to the point I can't taste anything in the food other than hotness. It's supposed to be a condiment not take over the whole meal.
I think that unless folks can handle wildly intense things like reaper sauce, most people's favorite level of spice is just beneath their tolerance. Like they would rather have a spicy meal they can handle than a single crazy spicy bite. It just turns out that people have different tolerances. For some people, that ideal level for them is just a little black pepper. For many people though, black pepper is hardly noticeable, or at least forgettable.
That's certainly the case with me. I use red pepper flakes a ton and Black pepper is noticeable but I wouldn't consider it spicy or hot. As far as actual hot stuff (to me) habenero sauce seems to about my limit for what I would use and still consider good and I can eat jalapenos all day.
There's a guy that comes out to our happy hours sometimes that always makes a big show of asking for the hottest wings they have and then after he starts on them asking the waiter if those are really the hottest (while red faced and sweating). It's really annoying.
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