Spicy food - WTF?

Kold

I hate the stuff. What the hell is so appealing about something that hurts your mouth and makes your sh!te explode? Is it some kind of masochistic tendency to love jalapenos or what? Seriously, I don't get why people eat something that makes them uncomfortable.

I get that people like spicy food, but.. can you tell me why?

Creamy Goodness

it tastes good, it doesn't make everyone's **** piss.

Kur4mA

I can't stand really spicy food at all!

Keano

My stomache doesn't appreciate it but the spicier the better.

Canis Lupus

Had a curry on the weekend with the GF's folks. It was thai food and I hate spicy stuff. Everyone just sat there sweating, sniffing, eyes running, lips burning.

I get NO comfort and enjoyment eating food like that but endured it regardless.

Aspiration

As cremo said, it tastes good as simple as that. i love the taste of a little spice in my food!

Steve_o

"I can see through Time"...

OP: Spicier the better!!

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I love spicy food, hotter the better.

Oh yeah. :cool:

The Master

Spicier the better , love the stuff

Kintarō Hattori

A little spicey is good but burn your mouth off spicey is just rediculous. You can't taste the flavours when it's that hot.

Kold

Cremo wrote: »

it tastes good, it doesn't make everyone's **** piss.

I don't think I've ever really noticed a flavour... More of a "Oh God what's on my tongue and why is it doing this to me!?"

chopperbyrne

You're confusing spicy food with hot food.

I like spicy, don't like hot.

AnonoBoy

Insanity peppers..... hmmmmmmmm!

I love spicy food. Eating it makes me feel like a man. People who can't handle spicy food are to be frowned upon and looked down on as weaker specimens.

nyarlothothep

It gives a nice endorphin release, it also has a certain taste about it.

Terry

I'm a heavy smoker, so I can't taste much.

Spicy food rules.

Jigsaw

It tastes lovely at the time, providing it is not ridiculously hot.

It's not so good the next day when you are on your sixth sh1t of the day and you have an a$$hole like a busted plum.

biko

Kold wrote: »

Seriously, I don't get why people eat something that makes them uncomfortable.

I get that people like spicy food, but.. can you tell me why?

Because it doesn't make ME uncomfortable, I have learnt to like it and it does not makes my a$$ hurt either.

Goolay

I lurve my hot curries. Once a week without fail. Myself and my two brother all live near each other and order from the same Indian place. The takeaway guys find it funny that each one of us has to ask for the hottest thing "extra extra hot". You build up a kind of immunity to it as well, and start to miss the sensation of having your head blown off, so you have to keep upping the spice quotient.

The hot pat sauce in El Paso, Howth is quite good.

The Bollox

I like a bit of a sting, but I can't eat too much of it. I had some bad experiences with raw jalapenos

JethroC

Hot Food all the way...I'd put chillies (fresh or flakes) in anything I can when cooking at home. A bit of ring sting never killed anyone...

Loopy

Red Hot Chilli Peppers ftw

Steve_o

looptheloop wrote: »

Red Hot Chilli Peppers ftw

I was wondering how long it'd take....

HJ Simpson

I love hot spicy food sometimes it doesnt like my insides but mostly its great. My wife wont eat anything that has even a hint of spice it makes cooking at home interesting.

Homer

Spicier the better for me! Gradually finding I neet it hotter and hotter though as my immunity builds up!
Arse like a dragons nostril the next morning is the unfortunate downside though!

TeletextPear

industria wrote: »

Arse like a dragons nostril the next morning is the unfortunate downside though!

i just almost fell off my chair laughing at that

spicy food ftw

The Hill Billy

Hot & spicy all the way for me, but it has to taste good. Heat for the sake of it is stoopid.

Dudess

Kold wrote: »

I hate the stuff. What the hell is so appealing about something that hurts your mouth and makes your sh!te explode? Is it some kind of masochistic tendency to love jalapenos or what? Seriously, I don't get why people eat something that makes them uncomfortable.

Yep, agree 100%. Chilli peppers - why? And considering it deadens your taste buds, the taste argument is redundant.

Aspiration wrote: »

i love the taste of a little spice in my food!

Yes, a little spice is lovely. That's not the same as going the whole hog of burning your mouth and practically knocking down the person nearest you to get some water. For every bite. Fun.

Xavi6

I LOVE my spice so stick me in the Lava category.

Don't do sugar though, I'm sweet enough as it is :cool:

Delirium

Like my food to have some spice generally. Wouldn't always go for the plate of fire.:D

RonMexico

You have never had spicy food until you've tried Taco Bell with fire sauce at an elevation of 10,000feet.

The elevation + fire sauce + the **** that is taco bell = a session on the jacks that resembles the eruption of krakatoa.

Anal trauma :eek:

Dun laoire

I just love food.

FunkZ

I don't like it too much at all.

I had a stupid idea about ten minutes ago, I had just finished cooking a vegetable pasta, now with my food I always throw on 'spices' but not proper spicy ones. Like BBQ or chicken spice, today I threw on cajun spices and my mouth is in bits, I'm about a fifth throw the meal, ****!

Xavi6

Lol cajun is killing you? Sissy

Kold

Kold wrote: »

I hate the stuff. What the hell is so appealing about something that hurts your mouth and makes your sh!te explode? Is it some kind of masochistic tendency to love jalapenos or what? Seriously, I don't get why people eat something that makes them uncomfortable.

I get that people like spicy food, but.. can you tell me why?

Pfffft, Jalapenos........feckin lightweight. Get a few habaneros into ya, ya woman.

Spicy as possible for me please, though Kintaro has a fair point below....

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

A little spicey is good but burn your mouth off spicey is just rediculous. You can't taste the flavours when it's that hot.

I've stopped ordering Vindaloo's and just go for the madras now cos with a vindaloo you just can't taste anything else.

Ross_Mahon

-The atomic burger from Eddie Rockets

-Chicken Vindaloo from kundan tandoori, Its classed on the menu as 'Very Very Hot'

-Tortillas with the hotest sauce available in tescos

Tinytony

Deleted User wrote: »

Pfffft, Jalapenos........feckin lightweight. Get a few habaneros into ya, ya woman.

Feck it, you beat me too it. Habaneros all the way.

jester77

Kold wrote: »

I hate the stuff. What the hell is so appealing about something that hurts your mouth and makes your sh!te explode? Is it some kind of masochistic tendency to love jalapenos or what? Seriously, I don't get why people eat something that makes them uncomfortable.

I get that people like spicy food, but.. can you tell me why?

Jalapenos are great, whenever there's a jar of them in the house I find myself munching away on them.

Must be something wrong with your mouth if they are hurting it

Blackhorse Slim

Gotta say, jalapenos in burritos or fajitas, on nachos, or even on pizza - excellent.

Now I'm off to find out about these habaneros ye're all talking about...



BTW, I wasn't aware there was any hot sauce in Tesco? Their 'Very Hot' salsa is just a mild salsa with a few jalapenos...?

eVeNtInE

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humanji

Can't stand spicy food at all, myself. I enjoy tasting food, and if I eat anything spicy it just removes all flavour. I've friends who say that they just enjoy the challenge of eating through the pain.

BlueBandit

The hotter the better, I go through jars of habanerno sauce like its ketchup (cant stand ketchup though), endorphines and food how can it get any better?

MIN2511

I love spicey food, extra peppers and extra hot...

petethebrick

I love spicy food, granted, there is a time and place for everything, some days a nice mild Korma or the like is required. Some of the foods advertised as 'spicy' in Ireland are completely false advertising imo though. Man, I miss the food in Korea when I used to live there, some of that stuff will blow the head of you. It's all about the endorphines!
Have eaten at the korean places in dublin but haven't seen Booldak (literally fire chicken) at any of them.

Wook

http://www.arrakis.co.uk/jpg/dune4a.jpg

he liked the spice

Nichololas

I like spice because it extends life, expands consciousness, and is vital to space travel.

Blisterman

You've never had hot unless you've been to New Orleans.
There's a scale for measuring hotness, called the Scoville Scale. For comparison, Tobasco is about 8,000 Scovilles.
I tried a sauce that was 800,000 Scovilles. They give you bits of popcorn to dip into it, so I had some, with a good bit of sauce on it.

I swear to god, it was actually physically painful. Water did absolutely nothing, except make it worse.
I had to wait it out for about half an hour, until the burning subsided.

Would be a good thing to give to someone, who thinks they can stomach anything.

Kold

Blisterman wrote: »

You've never had hot unless you've been to New Orleans.
There's a scale for measuring hotness, called the Scoville Scale. For comparison, Tobasco is about 8,000 Scovilles.
I tried a sauce that was 800,000 Scovilles. They give you bits of popcorn to dip into it, so I had some, with a good bit of sauce on it.

I swear to god, it was actually physically painful. Water did absolutely nothing, except make it worse.
I had to wait it out for about half an hour, until the burning subsided.

Would be a good thing to give to someone, who thinks they can stomach anything.

Why don't they just eat molten tar?

The Bollox

Blisterman wrote: »

You've never had hot unless you've been to New Orleans.
There's a scale for measuring hotness, called the Scoville Scale. For comparison, Tobasco is about 8,000 Scovilles.
I tried a sauce that was 800,000 Scovilles. They give you bits of popcorn to dip into it, so I had some, with a good bit of sauce on it.

I swear to god, it was actually physically painful. Water did absolutely nothing, except make it worse.
I had to wait it out for about half an hour, until the burning subsided.

Would be a good thing to give to someone, who thinks they can stomach anything.

Mr. you don't wanna get wax in your mouth, do you?

maybe I do, son, maybe I do...

Creature

Blisterman wrote: »

You've never had hot unless you've been to New Orleans.
There's a scale for measuring hotness, called the Scoville Scale. For comparison, Tobasco is about 8,000 Scovilles.
I tried a sauce that was 800,000 Scovilles. They give you bits of popcorn to dip into it, so I had some, with a good bit of sauce on it.

I swear to god, it was actually physically painful. Water did absolutely nothing, except make it worse.
I had to wait it out for about half an hour, until the burning subsided.

Would be a good thing to give to someone, who thinks they can stomach anything.

Wow I'd love to try that. The highest I've had is a Scotch Bonnet pepper which is less than half that. I also got some of it's juice in my eye... It actually felt like my eye was melting and burning at the same time. The pain was unreal, never felt anything like it. Thanks to google though a quick eye bath in milk neutralised the pain pretty much instantly.

Anyway yeah the hotter the better for me. I use jalapenos in practically everything. And Tabasco sauce = yum. Specifically Habannero Tabasco sauce. The regular stuff is ok but not hot enough and it runs out too quickly.

WindSock

Sugar is great for evening out the burn.
OP you need to build up your tolerance. Start with mild-medium and work from there. Spicy food is great for releasing endorphins.

cornbb

The pain caused by eating spicy food causes your body to release endorphins. Thats where the appeal comes from.

I spicy foods. I always have a bottle of Tobasco on standby.

Edit: this is a pretty funny account of a guy tasting a substance measuring 16,000,000 on the scoville scale... http://www.hotsauceblog.com/hotsaucearchives/blairs-16-million-product-review/