I’ve never actually seen or heard of this in the UK. It could well be real, but it’s not that common. Most people I know have reasonable spice tolerance given as you say the popularity of Indian food there.
Indian is spicy in that it uses lots of spices. It doesnt rank real high on the spice meter imo. Even the “ghost pepper vindaloo” at a specialty hot Indian place near me doesn’t rate much more than 3/5 and that’s the hottest Indian I’ve found. Everything else at the many Indian places I’ve been only reaches maybe a 1.5. I grow ghost peppers annd I don’t think they really use em. Any Thai or Burmese places “white people spicy” is about the same.
It must be made differently across the pond. I’ve felt like I was gonna bleed from my eyeballs once or twice from Indian food. Way hotter than any Mexican food I’ve ever had and I’m in an area with a lot of first generation immigrants cooking…
Lived in Southern China for a while. I’ve also had plenty of authentic thai, Indian, central American. The dal bhat my sister made after living in Nepal was a burning I will never forget. Ever.
Yea this sounds like a local you thing. The indian near me has me literally sweating at “white people spicy.” I tried “indian spicy” when i went with my indian friends, and i could barely finish it.
I’d agree with you. Sweating can be a 2-3. Starting to get hot. 4 might be crying involuntarily and nose running. 5 involves numbing to the point you don’t feel anything anymore and get a runners high.
Now that I think about it, people say my scales are fucked up. Like at the hospital what they ask pain on a scale of 1-10, I always imagine 10 being a combination of many of the worst tortures you have heard of or can imagine. I had my puss filled swollen inflamed taint sliced open and drained which is apparently one of the more painful procedures but it made sense for me to rate it an 8. Nurses tell me everyone says 10 at the smallest thing.
Thai/Native Hot is usually the highest on the menu and what I generally order. Some places will happily fuck me up but others don’t, especially when I (infrequently) order takeout and can’t reassure them beforehand. That said, I have a very high capsaicin tolerance so may need to just settle for doing it myself.
That is legitimately surprising considering how popular Indian food has been with the few Brits I know.
I’ve never actually seen or heard of this in the UK. It could well be real, but it’s not that common. Most people I know have reasonable spice tolerance given as you say the popularity of Indian food there.
Indian is spicy in that it uses lots of spices. It doesnt rank real high on the spice meter imo. Even the “ghost pepper vindaloo” at a specialty hot Indian place near me doesn’t rate much more than 3/5 and that’s the hottest Indian I’ve found. Everything else at the many Indian places I’ve been only reaches maybe a 1.5. I grow ghost peppers annd I don’t think they really use em. Any Thai or Burmese places “white people spicy” is about the same.
I think you guys get different Indian food than we do. I’ve had stuff that would peel paint off a car.
Same.
It must be made differently across the pond. I’ve felt like I was gonna bleed from my eyeballs once or twice from Indian food. Way hotter than any Mexican food I’ve ever had and I’m in an area with a lot of first generation immigrants cooking…
Lived in Southern China for a while. I’ve also had plenty of authentic thai, Indian, central American. The dal bhat my sister made after living in Nepal was a burning I will never forget. Ever.
If I got it right, how can dal and rice be spicy?
You use spices
Fair enough, chef
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Yea this sounds like a local you thing. The indian near me has me literally sweating at “white people spicy.” I tried “indian spicy” when i went with my indian friends, and i could barely finish it.
I’d agree with you. Sweating can be a 2-3. Starting to get hot. 4 might be crying involuntarily and nose running. 5 involves numbing to the point you don’t feel anything anymore and get a runners high.
Now that I think about it, people say my scales are fucked up. Like at the hospital what they ask pain on a scale of 1-10, I always imagine 10 being a combination of many of the worst tortures you have heard of or can imagine. I had my puss filled swollen inflamed taint sliced open and drained which is apparently one of the more painful procedures but it made sense for me to rate it an 8. Nurses tell me everyone says 10 at the smallest thing.
I’ve been meaning to learn how to say “fuck me up with spice” in Thai for this reason. Or ordering takeout under a native name.
A common trick is to order it “Thai spicy”. Obviously YMMV.
Yeah there was a Thai place in Trondheim that had that as an option, but where I live now the local Thai place refuses to do it.
Thai/Native Hot is usually the highest on the menu and what I generally order. Some places will happily fuck me up but others don’t, especially when I (infrequently) order takeout and can’t reassure them beforehand. That said, I have a very high capsaicin tolerance so may need to just settle for doing it myself.