Morgoth, on 08 August 2016 - 11:08 AM, said:
I love spicy food, and as I live in an area with a lot of asian immigrants I have excellent access to fresh chillies of all kinds. I think the spiciest meal I've eaten was in Ethiopia. They have a kind of stew there, Vot, that contains a lot of the local curry (berberi). I had aldready been there for a while, and on a trip with stopped at a local eatery for dinner. Some way out of the city, down towards the coast. The vot there was so absurdly spicy my lips started cracking up and began bleeding. I have never encountered anything like that anywhere else. A thai soup I had once came close though. Cpt Needa - you sadly have no experience of the flavours that chilli provides. Sufficient to say your understanding of what it does to the food and its flavours is severly lacking.
Apt, on 08 August 2016 - 11:12 AM, said:
See I will agree about chili being able give something different to the taste experience but it needs to be something that doesn't just overpower everything else and makes you feel like you scolded your mouth. As soon as a I start sweating and my nose begins to run, I know it's time to abandon ship.
Exactly. Hot spices not only cause a horrible physiological reaction but overwhelm all other tastes. So what is the point?
I prefer to have the option of not having spicy food, so IMHO spices should be "on the side", or you just have a mix of spicy and non-spicy meals. What I hate is when you pay money (generally for someone's special occasion, so you feel like a shit if you don't want to go to their favourite Indian/Thai/Mongolian/Mexican/whatever restaurant) and all you get is a succession of meals with 1 or more chili peppers next to the meal in the menu and you're looking in vain to find something you can stomach ...
Anyhoo, different strokes and all that. I'm waiting to see if anyone here has an anecdote that can come close to Homer's Guatemalan Insanity Pepper.
This post has been edited by Captain Needa: 08 August 2016 - 11:22 AM
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