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[–] clearleaf@lemmy.world 71 points 11 months ago (10 children)

Hot sauce people do kind of suck though.

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 66 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (9 children)

People that make hot sauce eating into a competitive spectacle are the problem.

I grew up eating hot foods. I found that if you’re ever discovered eating unusually hot foods by a lot of people you end up becoming “that person who eats spicy stuff” and you get pushed to eat spicier and spicier things as people try to break you. It’s miserable.

It’s not about where your tolerance is at, but your comfort level. My tolerance is high but I’m not going all the way up to go to it, I’ll stay down in my comfort level. My comfort level is higher than many peoples’ tolerance, but I don’t get showy about it. There is a group at work of people who one up eachother with spicy foods. Most of what they have looks pretty weak. I eat homemade tteokbokki that probably crushes most of their sauces, but I’ll never let them know. I don’t want them bringing me synthetic, flavorless pain sauces.

There’s no point in eating something that’s painful to you.

[–] bpm@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago

Some of the super hot sauces are like eating a spicy tyre fire - very unpleasant flavour, but sold on the "burn". I don't need to prove anything anymore, I'll stick with my habenero sauce and let the youngins do the "challenges".

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