Countries and their opinions of Spicy Food

Denisovan · 31-10-2013 02:33PM #1

It has come to my attention via a work colleague that ghanaians adore spicy food. Which country's inhabitants in your opinion are most fond of spicy food. Mexico and India would be strong contenders of course.

Hande hoche! · 31-10-2013 02:34PM

The north of England. Also Devon.

MonstaMash · 31-10-2013 02:37PM

Sichuan province of China

suicide_circus · 31-10-2013 02:37PM

the most intolerably spice food I ever tried was Indian in origin. can't remember the name of the dish but it was essentially inedible.

salacious crumb · 31-10-2013 02:38PM

Me.

lkionm · 31-10-2013 02:40PM

My farts and poos are awful spicy when I get a kebab.

spuddy90 · 31-10-2013 02:41PM

You can't rule out Thailand! I still can't come to terms with it and I'm eating their chillies the last 7 years!

fobster · 31-10-2013 02:42PM

It has come to my attention via no one in particular that some countries don't have spicy food. What's with that? Which country's inhabitants in your opinion have the unspiciest of unspicy food. Norway and Iceland would be strong contenders imho.

spuddy90 · 31-10-2013 02:44PM

You can't rule out Thailand! I still can't come to terms with it and I'm eating their chillies the last 7 years!

Mesut Ozil · 31-10-2013 02:45PM

lkionm wrote: »

My farts and poos are awful spicy when I get a kebab.

You eat your own poo?

Neon_Lights · 31-10-2013 02:46PM

whichever country produces the hottest chilli on the scoville scale (scale for measuring chilli hotness) shall be declared the winner

ScumLord · 31-10-2013 02:46PM

Every country in Europe has Chinese and Indian restaurants and an Irish pub. Just about every country in the world would have those 3 things.

lkionm · 31-10-2013 02:46PM

Mesut Ozil wrote: »

You eat your own poo?

Anything to get rid of a hangover.

Logical Fallacy · 31-10-2013 02:49PM

ScumLord wrote: »

Every country in Europe has Chinese and Indian restaurants and an Irish pub. Just about every country in the world would have those 3 things.

I think he means with regard to traditional cuisine as opposed to current availability of world foods.

danniemcq · 31-10-2013 02:52PM

Threads Merged, room topic is now discussion of countries and spicy foods

Seaneh · 31-10-2013 02:52PM

fobster wrote: »

It has come to my attention via no one in particular that some countries don't have spicy food. What's with that? Which country's inhabitants in your opinion have the unspiciest of unspicy food. Norway and Iceland would be strong contenders imho.

You mean hot, not spicy.

Ireland, for example, actually has a history of using a lot of different spices, but not hot ones, just spices like Juniper berries and the like.

Hot and spicy are not the same thing.

FTA69 · 31-10-2013 02:54PM

Some Caribbean stuff is viciously hot, especially some of the home-made jerk marinade. Bangladeshi and some Indian cuisine is often bastard hot; Pakistani cuisine is generally a lot less richer with minimal heat. Thais generally have some extremely hot food available, the Tom Yum soup they eat is often screeching. Korean food uses a lot of chillis and fermented bean paste and it is very, very spicy.

The good thing about living in London is that you can eat anything and everything whenever you want to. I've built up a serious tolerance for heat and could eat an extra-hot Vindaloo with no bother whatsoever. I'd often get a Phall in the curry house which is twice as hot as a vindaloo. Only last month I ate two scotch bonnets on a slice of toast when I was p*ssed.

However, last week I got this Ethiopian stuff and drowned it in a luminous-red chilli paste your one had. Mother of God I was praying for death after it.

Neon_Lights · 31-10-2013 02:54PM

Seaneh wrote: »

Ireland, for example, actually has a history of using a lot of different spicey, but not hot ones, just spices like Juniper berries and the like.

We like to blast it out of it with mustard and loads of saxa white pepper excuse you :P

Seaneh · 31-10-2013 02:54PM

Denisovan wrote: »

It has come to my attention via a work colleague that ghanaians adore spicy food. Which country's inhabitants in your opinion are most fond of spicy food. Mexico and India would be strong contenders of course.

Any of the Caribbean countries, especially the likes of Trinidad and Jamaica, would eat food much hotter than Mexico (Mexican food generally isn't actually very hot at all) and most of India. They put Scotch Bonnet and Habaneros into absolutely everything.

FTA69 · 31-10-2013 02:55PM

Seaneh wrote: »

Hot and spicy are not the same thing.

True. Moroccan food for instance is heavily-spiced but isn't hot at all.

Seaneh · 31-10-2013 02:55PM

Neon_Lights wrote: »

We like to blast it out of it with mustard and loads of saxa white pepper excuse you :P

Not sure about the mustard seeds but white pepper is a pretty recent addition to European cooking, seeing as it comes from India :P

mitosis · 31-10-2013 02:57PM

Basically anywhere the climate would lead meat to spoil quickly has a tradition of spicy food.

Neon_Lights · 31-10-2013 02:57PM

Ah the flags have the same colours as our country so we'l claim white pepper as our own, nobody will ever know

mitosis · 31-10-2013 03:00PM

Seaneh wrote: »

Not sure about the mustard seeds but white pepper is a pretty recent addition to European cooking, seeing as it comes from India :P

I am not sure what you regard as recent, but in the 1st century Rome imported large amounts of pepper from India.

Newonhere · 31-10-2013 03:02PM

I love spicy food, particularly Indian and Thai but I went to a Szechuan restaurant in Shanghai and found the majority of the food inedible due to it being FAR too hot, both my partner and myself had to leave most of the food that we ordered, even though it looked fantastic, and head to a different (not Szechuan) restaurant for dinner.

kingtut · 31-10-2013 03:13PM

Spicy and Hot do not mean the same thing, I am amazed at how many people say I had a really spicy curry last night, it blew my head off. Umm so it was HOT, does not mean it was spicy though.

HOT = Amount of chili / how much it burns
SPICY = Amount of spices in the dish (which adds to the flavour).

A curry can be hot, spicy or hot and spicy :P

That being said I love HOT curry although I do sometimes regret it the next morning :P

Gyalist · 31-10-2013 03:19PM

The food in Trinidad & Tobago (anywhere in the Caribbean really) is both hot and spicy. Moruga is a town in Trinidad which has lent its name to the Moruga Scorpion chilli which holds the highest rating on the Scoville scale. They also use a variety of coriander/cilantro known locally as chadon beni in most of their cuisine. Gives their food a very distinct flavour that is not found in the rest of the Caribbean.

If you go to a market in Guyana you will come across an unbelievable range of peppers, fresh herbs and spices. The tiny pepper known as wiri-wiri is very potent.

Seaneh · 31-10-2013 03:21PM

mitosis wrote: »

I am not sure what you regard as recent, but in the 1st century Rome imported large amounts of pepper from India.

That pepper didn't filter very far down the chain of command though.

Neon_Lights · 31-10-2013 03:23PM

its okay ireland or hibernia as it was called by lez romaines wasn't invaded by the romans.

Wompa1 · 31-10-2013 03:24PM

Over here if you go to a Thai restaraunt they serve the food as 'white man hot' unless you ask for it 'Thai hot'

When it's Thai hot, you sweat your arse off, get the sniffles, eyes watering and feel it in your throat and chest. No thank you

Billy86 · 31-10-2013 04:03PM

Gyalist wrote: »

Moruga is a town in Trinidad which has lent its name to the Moruga Scorpion chilli which holds the highest rating on the Scoville scale.

It appears someone overlooked the merciless peppers of Quetzalacatenango… grown deep in the jungle primeval by the inmates of a Guatemalan insane asylum.

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