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Poll: What is your level of tolerance for spicy food?

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Originally posted by: Ameesh
I enjoy spicy food as well, but only if it has flavor, being hot just for the sake of being hot isn't good to me. Most of those ultrahyperdeathanddestruction hot sauces are just a lot capsaician and not a lot of flavor which is not worthwhile IMO.
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i agree. i love spicy food myself but it has to have some good flavor.

most of the really hot stuff is great if you add in to a already good mixture. it adds a bunch of heat but does NOT effect the flavor of whatever you are makeing. wich i believe is the point of them.
 
can munch on habenero's.

But man its painful.

Blairs regular death sauce is the best - great flavor, good heat.

After death is just ridiculous...once smother a piece of pizza with it. mommy!
 
I could take a shot of tabasco sauce and swish it around in my mouth without so much as a tear in my eye.
But, one teaspoon of Dave's Insanity sauce is unbearable.

I actually spent a whole summer having a little bit more Dave's Insanity sauce each day, slowly building up a tolerance to it. In the end, I could claim the stuff was a flavored ketchup, put a bunch on a piece of meat, proclaim it as delicious, and watch my poor victim wish he was dead after he tasted it. Ever since that summer though, any taste of something that hot makes my stomach go into convulsions, like violent hiccups or something.
 
Originally posted by: DrPizza
I could take a shot of tabasco sauce and swish it around in my mouth without so much as a tear in my eye.
But, one teaspoon of Dave's Insanity sauce is unbearable.

I actually spent a whole summer having a little bit more Dave's Insanity sauce each day, slowly building up a tolerance to it. In the end, I could claim the stuff was a flavored ketchup, put a bunch on a piece of meat, proclaim it as delicious, and watch my poor victim wish he was dead after he tasted it. Ever since that summer though, any taste of something that hot makes my stomach go into convulsions, like violent hiccups or something.
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I get hiccups when I eat a lot of spicy food too.

I took about a spoonfull of Dave's Ultimate Insanity and ate it the other day. This was at a restaurant. I asked if I could buy some, and they sold it to me. 😀

I just ate some on my sub. It was warm.

 
Alas, I'm allergic to capsaicin. I stop breathing and so far have been lucky getting to the emergency room in time. I'm no fun at all at a chili cookout.

However, steamed carrots are pretty bland without a touch o'lemon and butter, or something.
 
I'm getting better...I can't keep up with my Canto friend or her Indian roommate, but I hold my own for someone who seldomly ate spicy foods as a kid.
 
When I lived with a black family I could eat quite spicy foods. However, my white man's tongue has reverted back and at the moment Tobasco is all I can handle.
 
Oh! I had a friend who had a Habanero incident.

I was once a member of a Baptist youth group and we would have meetings each month to discuss the goals and projects we had for the month. After our discussion it was time for dinner and after dinner we had various conversations and contests. A Native American member of our group had brought in a bowl of Habanero peppers. Now another member of the group, a good friend of mine who is black and I lived with him for a while, decided he was tolerant enough of spicy foods to eat a whole Habanero - stem and all. So my brave friend snatched up a pepper quick as you please and threw the thing in his mouth. After about two chews he had some of the pepper go down the wrong tube. My friend ran to the sink and rinsed his mouth with water. After realizing water would be of no aid my friend drank half a gallon of milk. Well, that much lactose and the peppers made the guy quite nauseous and he also experienced an asthma attack. Poor fellow, he drank more water. After the pepper, the water, the milk, and more water my friend ran to the restroom. In his delirium he forgot to close the restroom door. We heard him moaning from that area of the house and we all were laughing hysterically. A member of our group, a female, was in the back part of the house and came to check in on the moaning. Soon we heard a scream, and a door closing. Apparently she asked my friend if he were all right but he had removed his pants and undergarment; his nudity shocked her and she screamed and ran away crying. When she emerged to find us all doubled over from laughter she frowned at us all not realizing what had happened to my good man. When she understood the situation, she started chuckling and soon explained what she had seen.

My poor friend will never live this down. Just about anyone who was there will bring the above incident up when he makes a confident statement or when he is trying to impress a girl. Poor fellow.
 
Originally posted by: Ameesh
I enjoy spicy food as well, but only if it has flavor, being hot just for the sake of being hot isn't good to me. Most of those ultrahyperdeathanddestruction hot sauces are just a lot capsaician and not a lot of flavor which is not worthwhile IMO.
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Yup. I love Indian food and had a Chinese Curry sauce once that was freakin spicy, but oh so tasty. I don' mind 4-6 drops of Death sauce in a bowl of good chilli, but eating it straight has no real point.
 
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Originally posted by: azazyel
I put Tapatio on everything! Not that hot but it has a mild kick and great flavor.

Notes From An Inexperienced Chili Taster Named FRANK, who was visiting Texas from the East Coast: "Recently I was honored to be selected as an outstanding Famous celebrity in Texas, to be a judge at a chili cook-off, because no one else wanted to do it....
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Azazyel I guess I am the only one who thought "Frank's" comments were funny. 😀
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I laughed out loud, too loud 😀


My wife can eat Thai bird chilies by the handful:beer:
 
I like jalapenos, and you can never have too many, but anything hotter than that is too much. I once ate a raw habanero and was crying for 10 minutes 😀
 
At my grandfather's funeral a kind neighbor brought a dish of lasagna for my grieving southern/midwestern relatives. It was made with Ragu or something, I'm not kidding EXTREMELY bland, but edible. The next day some of them were complaining about how the SPICY food gave them indigestion and they couldn't sleep. They aren't texas barbq southerners they're Kentucky meatloaf southerners.

I love spicy food, my favorite flavor profile is black pepper, so I'm more a fan of curries, and habaneros than jalopeno's

Love for the spicy pad thai... mmmmmm....
 
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