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What are your hot takes on food culture? (lemmy.world)
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[–] 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

If we are talking about cuisine, then mine is that intensely spicy food (e.g. Indian, Korean, Laos, etc.) is heavily overrated.

I prefer a taste bouquet of a carefully crafted meal. Hotness should be a nice touch, not a dominant agony. Food should not require a built tolerance to it's ingredients in order to be enjoyed.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    I like a small proportion of what I eat to be very very spicy. Not everything, and not every day. But sometimes it's exactly what I want and some foods are so good that way. Lots of other flavors are sort of learned too - wine, bitter greens, there are foods I tried every year until I could like them (mango and raw tomatoes, and wines, also Swiss cheese) and I am glad I did develop a palate for them. Spicy I've always liked, only one of my kids was like that but all of them like it now.

    I guess my hot take is that just because I like milk and/or sugar in coffee, doesn't mean I don't like coffee. Most people who like chocolate don't like unsweetened baking chocolate and nobody is gatekeeping that like they do with coffee.

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