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[–] [S] 174 points 10 months ago* (26 children)

At a Indian restaurant, the waiter said, "We have regular and spicy... And Indian spicy." Then he goes, "I usually don't offer Indian spicy to everybody". I'm brown, and I was given special treatment. But honestly I think I broke his heart when I asked for regular because he thought I could hang.

Sorry man! 😭

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  • [–] 128 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    One of my proudest moments as a white dude who likes spicy stuff was when a buddy and I were hanging out with some local guys while on a trip to Mexico. I was just chowing down on some super hot salsa and one of the Mexican guys gets real excited and starts calling me "the blond Mexican". I'm sure my wife is tired of that story, but I will continue to tell it to her for the rest of my days.

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Woah. If there's one thing that excites me more than foreigners speaking Spanish, it's people eating our food how it should be eaten. Well done! I hope you enjoyed yourself.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    The food culture of Mexico is amazing, and if you're eating at the right places there is usually no option but to speak Spanish! I've had to request "más picante" before, though generally that is at restaurants used to serving gringos. At tianguis or taco guys on the street there's usually no problem getting the spice.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago*

    So I have a question about this.

    When I was in high school I worked with a woman from Mexico (many immigrants actually, it was an ag job), like her English wasn’t that great because she recently moved to that area sort of thing.

    She was nice, maybe late 20s, and had a couple kids. She brought lunch for me a few times that she made, and I was blown away by how bland it was, since I’d been under the impression that Mexican food was typically spicier (kinda like most Indian food I’ve has is strongly flavored) so I asked about it.

    She said that in Mexico they don’t actually make everything super hot, because kids need to eat and don’t like spice, so most spice is added by the eater at the table or whatever.

    Is that true, or was she being nice about my possibly offensive confusion?

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  • [–] 50 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    I’m white and they said that to me once, but there was such an underlying tone of menace in “Indian hot” that I knew they weren’t fucking around.

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    That is such a perfect way to describe how "Indian hot" is offered! No malice, of course, just an honest warning!

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Why don't you make hot a little hotter, make that the top number and make that a little hotter?

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Most places only have 10 hot, but if you're chowing on 10 and want to go hotter, where can you go from there? That's why ours goes to 11

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    A friend and I went to an indian place and got their hottest dish. We both kinda shrugged at it, and the waiters took offense and brought out raw onions slathered in hot sauce. Eating those helped, but it still wasn't really spicy, ya know? Neither of us are even the heat fanatics, habanero levels of hot are good enough, so maybe some places just do like 5s and hope nobody wants the 10s.

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  • [–] 29 points 10 months ago

    Sometimes when my boyfriend and I want a spicy cuisine, I’ll do the online ordering because I’m the one with the non-white name. He’s convinced they tone down the spice levels when they see his name on the order.😂

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I’m white British and went through this at a New Zealand Indian restaurant. After all the warnings, Indian spicy was barely even mid-level spicy. I’m from Bradford and don’t need mollycoddling.

    In my experience Indians and British Asians are not even that into spice heat as a whole.

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago

    A kebab place in town used to have their spicyness range from "Norwegian mild" to "immigrant spicy".

    I once went from my regular order of "Norwegian spicy" up to "immigrant mild". Bad move for me, delicious kebab though.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I kinda wanna ask for Indian spicy next time I go to a restaurant

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Ask if they could bring just a spoon full for you to test your might. I bet they'd have a laugh setting your intestines on fire.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    One time I was at an event with Indian catering. I picked the dish I wanted, and the caterers warned me that it was spicy. I was halfway through it when the person I was having a chat with asked if the spicy dish was good. I was like "what? This is supposed to be spicy?" Then I paid attention and realised it was a bit spicy, I just forgot because it was less spice than I'm used to. It was delicious though and I used my naan to soak up all the sauce

    I guess that was probably white spicy. I want to try Indian spicy now

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    The Indian place I often go to will only actually give me the spice level I’m asking for (1-10 scale) if I call to order it. If I go in and ask for it spicy, it’s always suuuuper mild. Very very annoying, because damnit that’s not what I ordered, and I know what I’m doing. I’ve even specifically asked for it to be done the way they’d eat it and nope.

    My partner makes ghost pepper and reaper sauces. They just made ghost jerky. I like reaper cheese. I can handle it, but no. They won’t give it to me unless they don’t know it’s for me :(

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