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[–] 49 points 10 months ago (24 children)

It's taco bell, it's all mild sauce

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

    Salt is often a bit too spicy for me

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

    This is why we need better language describing spices in English. We have salty spices and spicy hot spices. Even if spicy hot spices there are three very different and distinct chemicals that make spicy hot spices.

    That's not even to begin to tackle the question of how to talk about the levels of the spice.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    Ordered TBell over the weekend, and the order came with Diablo. Don't usually order sauce because I have my own. Decided to give it a try.

    It was like barely more spicy than hot Tobasco or Chalula. I was honestly disappointed

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago (9 children)

    Everybody watch out, we got a badass over here.

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago*

    They're not wrong, though. Even their Diablo sauce is only rated to around ~15,000 SHU (though some will argue that Fire sauce is hotter and thus Diablo is actually less than 1000, myself included).

    Even if the rating is accurate, that means at the very most Taco Bell sauce is barely hotter than a jalapeño, which any hot sauce enthusiast will confirm is on the lower end of the Scoville scale.

    The point I'm making is that they're not bragging, they're stating simple facts.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    I just believe words have meaning

    If Taco Bell has sauces that are Hot, Fire, and Diablo then what are other actual hot sauces called?

    It's hyperbole, like someone saying their chicken wings were AMAZING.

    If by some miracle Jesus came down from heaven and made sweet love to you all night what would you call it? They've already wasted AMAZING on a damn chicken wing.

    credit to Louis CK for the Jesus bit

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    If Taco Bell has sauces that are Hot, Fire, and Diablo then what are other actual hot sauces called?

    Hot sauce has a long history of hyperbole with marketing. I get that a lot of folks have a preference for high spice (I am one) and the pinch of cayenne that goes into a fancy fruit pie or taco bell sauce packet is going to be barely detectable, but I cook a lot for other folks and if someone says they don't like any spice then diablo will ruin their night.

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

    Doesn't feel mild coming out the other end.

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

    Sounds like you might have gastrointestinal issues. Taco Bell hot sauce isn't potent enough to give you the shits.

    Could also be previously undiagnosed lactose intolerance, especially if you usually order it "supreme" (which adds sour cream).

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