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.

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.

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.😂

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.

My wife is West Indian and trying to convince restaurants she wants actually spicy food is a constant struggle

I'm white, my wife is Desi. She can't handle spicy food, and I thrive on it. We order each other's dishes.

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.

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

I'm VERY white, and so is my tolerance of spicyness. I always have to ask if the food is actually spicy or Dutch-spicy, because if it's the former, I'll take the extra mild please.

I'm a white guy and I genuinely love searing mouth pain followed shortly by burning bowel movements and it takes a real effort to convince most restaurants that I can handle the heat.

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 :(

You just gotta know whose palate it's balanced for. Taco bell is meant for white people. Their hottest sauce has a maybe jalapeño-level spice to it (and it tastes like shit). Go to any legit Thai or Indian place and their medium will destroy the hottest you can get at any tex-mex chain.

Honestly the mild sauce taste better, even though I like really spicy like ghost pepper+ levels of heat I get mild at Taco Bell on the rare occasion I go.

Their Diablo sauce is pretty good but still not that spicy

Salt is often a bit too spicy for me

Is taco bell mild sauce just a packet of air?

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

Everybody watch out, we got a badass over here.

Doesn't feel mild coming out the other end.

but there's an onion in there sometimes!

"How dare you! But yes."

I'm white and I want gravy

In fairness, gravy is the tits

Racial profiling in food is just an attempt to deliver the customer what they want. It would be the most benign form.

I'm oldish and pasty white, I have a hell of a time getting Mexican places to make it proper hot.

That said, I do love me potatoes and gravy...

"I knew when you walked in you were gonna order the chicken"

My wife is white and every time she gets forks and spoons at a Asian restaurant, she's absolutely delighted. She can use chopsticks, just not well.

Hell yeah, I want gravy.

Just ask for chop sticks, I do all the time. They are just playing the odds.

I was on a date with an Asian woman years ago, and she decided to order Chicken Fried Rice. I don't remember what I ordered, but it was something less stereotypically "white".

They gave me the fried rice, and a fork. We just laughed, traded dishes, and asked for another pair of chopsticks.

My first partner was adopted from China as a baby, so she looked Chinese but culturally she was 100% Canadian, raised in a very meat & potatoes kind of family.

My mom is a bit of a hippy, so she loved cooking stuff from all different cuisines and we'd regularly use chopsticks at home if eating Asian foods.

We went to a Chinese place together once and the staff were howling with laughter at the white kid using chopsticks opposite the Asian woman with a knife and fork. She learned how to use chopsticks shortly after, haha.

did you go to Dim Sum Paradise?

My wife asks for forks and knives all the time at Chinese restaurants. It's more efficient for her.

As a white girl, I like medium peppers and can occasionally enjoy a habeñero sauce but I'll feel it. The thing is it's just unremarkable, so I rarely say it. Most white people in my life like how spicy I cook things. That said my mom actually did think black pepper was too spicy.