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The bullying part is def. exaggerated to the point of extreme falsehood, but I’ve met more than a handful of people who placed wayyyy too much of their identity into increasing their heat tolerance. The worst ones are seriously this autistic and unaware of their cringiness, they would bully harder if they had the numbers and social skill to do so.
It’s a different thing to geek out about hot sauces and have the flavor be the main reason, with the heat as a price to pay, but these mfs couldn’t care less. They would lick the hottest toilet seat in the world if they thought it gave them bragging rights
They would lick the hottest toilet seat in the world if they thought it gave them bragging rights
Are you saying I could brag about it?
LOL “Johnny Scoville”
There isn’t necessarily a problem with eating hot things because they are hot, as long as you aren’t just doing it for bragging rights. If you enjoy something for any reason and aren’t a dick about it, I see no problem.
Some of these people are huge pricks.
Hot sauce people do kind of suck though.
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.
I hope I don’t get too annoying about it, but the times I am vocal about spicy food is basically every time I go out to eat at a “spicy” restaurant (Thai, Tex-Mex, etc.). I absolutely despise choosing the spiciest thing on the menu (“4/4 habaneros! get the kiss of death with this extra-spicy sauce!”) and then it turns out the plate has maybe 2 mL of regular tabasco and/or a couple Jalapeños, well below my comfort level or my “yummy, spice!” level.
Every once in a blue moon though you’ll find a place that has actually spicy food (either by mistake or recent immigrants who don’t quite understand yet that many Belgians’ tolerance stops at garlic and pepper, which is not an exaggeration), and it’s the best thing ever. But everyone I’m going out with usually complains that it’s too spicy… Can’t win. I just wish restaurants would actually advertise rough Scoville units or something, rather than useless arbitrary scales.
That can be a problem. There have actually been a few Thai restaurants in my life which will simply not serve “authentic spicy” to some people. I actually brought a Korean friend to one once, and we each ordered “authentic spicy” and then swapped plates when they were brought to the table. The waitress looked like she was going to have a heart attack. The dish my friend had ordered was was spicier.
This is why I always ask if “4/4 spicy” means “4/4 white-people spicy” or “4/4 [country of origin spicy”, because I love a white-people-spicy curry, but I don’t want to actually burst into flames please.
This is also a problem in Japan, though it’s gotten a bit better in the last couple years. You could order the “extremely hot” version of something and it would be quite literally barely have even a noticeable level of spice. More recently though I’ve seen actual bags of habaneros for sale at farm stands, something that would’ve been completely unthinkable even just 5 years ago, when tabasco was pretty much the hottest thing you’d (regularly) see in the entire country (that or ichimi/shichimi, which are powdered spices comparable to a tabasco heat).
However, we still had (and still mostly have) the same problem of the very occasional Indian restaurant or ramen shop actually meaning it when they said extremely hot. But since it only happened like 2% of the time you just had to assume menus were lying until the rare instances when the heat blew your face off.
It’s the age old problem of appealing to your audience. A restaurant gotta carve a niche, or adapt. My favourite thai in Annecy ended up taking away a lot of the Thai coriander and bean shoots because the average person in town didn’t aporeciate the flavours.
And if you don’t speak the language they probably won’t serve you spice anyway, because they know the average idiot doesn’t know how strong the real stuff gets. Side-note : watching my Chinese wife argue with a Vietnamese chef to serve her more spice was hilarious. He definitely used the European spice scale. She never wants to eat there again, even though it’s one of the too few Asians in town.
On the other hand, if you get lucky, you’ll find something like “Deux Fois Plus de Piment” in Paris where last time I went they had a warning literally telling you that string spicy food can give you diarrhea if you’re not used to it, and your sinuses instantly unblock as you step inside. I knew I had to take my chinese wife there once I found the place, even though the place tested both our limits :,D
If you find a place like that, praise them, let them know, and defend them at all cost, is all I’m saying.
We have a “hot sauce guy” in our group and every time he comes out with us he has to make a spectacle of ordering whatever the hottest wings are and trying to get other people to do it too. He’s autistic so I just ignore it but it’s super annoying. Like… I just want to eat stuff I can actually taste bro. I’m not trying to set a new record here.
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”.
This sounds exactly like something that would happen in an episode of SpongeBob, but with hot sauce instead of a burger. Not even slightly believable.
EDIT: Pretty Patties. That’s what I’m thinking of.
This is obviously someone’s weird fantasy but dude, you should absolutely never put this level of effort into a new and unknown social situation.
Yeah this is the kind of thing you do once you know people already.
I was waiting for when he reveals he’d put laxatives in the sauce
Lmao guys… Green text about being bullied, comments on lemmy continue to bully… Lol oh boy.
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This is why I don’t try
I thought I was good at dealing with spice, until I met my thai friend…
If this is real i’d be interested to see the actual situation. To me this doesn’t sound like bullying, just people joking around and flexing their heat tolerance, especially if the people didn’t know how much work op put in and how much it meant to them. super hard to judge just on a story tho
Yeah if this is real then to my reading this is some high effort, high quality banter. They had to carve this into a piece of wood, find this guys house, and then drive it over. That’s the sort of prank that’s done amongst friends thats fondly reminisced about for literally decades. They basically hand delivered this guy a personalized invitation to come hang out more.
As is tradition OP is absolutely autistic.
OP wasn’t friends though he’d never met them before. Going that hard on someone who doesn’t know the group and boundaries they are comfortable with is not a way to make friends. They basically called him a pussy and shat on something he clearly put effort into right to his face. This story is obviously made up but if that’s how you treat people you want to include in your group you’re doing it wrong.
You think “Mild Food Emergency Unit” was going hard and basically calling him a pussy? That is such a light, harmless joke.
I think chugging the hot sauce he brought and saying it wasn’t hot was calling him a pussy. Everyone joining in and laughing at him added to it. Damaging his property was also pretty disrespectful. It’s not harmless, it’s humiliating, to someone with social anxiety problems it will be scarring. Like I said before if they all knew each other it wouldn’t be that bad but he’s new to the group and the first thing they did was embarrass the shit out of him.
Idk if its “his property” anymore, he left it behind with seemingly no intention of going back for it. But how would you not laugh at that? Some new guy you’ve never met shows up with this outrageously elaborate setup for his homemade ultra-hot hot sauce and when you try it, it isn’t spicy
Because usually when someone does something that weird there’s usually something wrong with them mentally and picking on people like that is assholish.
You really seem intent on finding malice and being offended.
- They said his sauce wasnt that hot, so clearly they’re calling him a pussy.
- They laughed, so clearly they were cruelly laughing at his expense.
- They took a lot of time and effort to make a joke that played on the thing he’d made, so clearly they wanted to make sure this guy knows hes a piece of shit that isnt welcome at their meet ups
Exactly! That situation invites op to say something like “if that’s nothing show me what you got” and then do their best to act like it’s nothing no matter how hot whatever they give you is. Whether they can handle it or not i’m sure it could be a bonding experience, unless the club actually are bullies
edit: actually don’t do that, see one of the replies to this
To be clear, don’t do this with hot sauce unless you’re certain you’ll be fine. While there’s nothing that can physically or chemically harm you in hot sauce, you can end up in unmitigable agony for several hours depending on the sauce, with a repeat showing of the spicy horror picture show when next you use the bathroom. In severe cases, people have been hospitalized. Source: I like a spicy
Or do it, film it, and post it. I also like a spectate suffering
Oh, good to know
Nothing like a manliness competition to bro up!
That just makes them sound even douchier to me.
A manliness competition? Its a hot sauce social group, you can’t actually be surprised that such a group would try to outdo each other with heat tolerance.
