I hear tell that the claims are from people with low fiber diets, who suddenly have to deal with fiberful foods.

(I heard it on the Internet, and so now I repeat it on the Internet and let others handle the fact checking!)

Yeah Mexican food doesn't give me shits (mexican ancestry might help) but having a Japanese bidet is nice.

Shit people can get one for less than $100 dollars. I've been trying to get my fellow Americans on the same page. I once had a coworker call a foreign coworker nasty cuz he used a portable bidet at work. People here are insane. I can hardly get myself to take a work poop because there are no bidets at work.

There are many reasons but one is that modern European cuisine (over the past several centuries) generally looked down upon spice.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/03/26/394339284/how-snobbery-helped-take-the-spice-out-of-european-cooking

I've always wondered if Hot Ones was a concerted effort to broaden the horizons of those who were traditionally opposed to spice.

I take lactase enzyme tablets and alpha galactosidase enzyme tablets (Beano) to break down the complex sugars in dairy and beans and it normally prevents any problems. A nutritionist told me once that most beans have some complex sugars that humans can’t normally digest, and when those ferment in the digestive tract it can cause problems, but the alpha galactosidase takes care of it.

Spicy food is worth the pain and suffering that it causes for sure! My bowels absolutely hate hot sauce no matter what I do! The cheaper the spice (think dehydrated red peppers), the worst the experience. That being said, I still put globs of my favorite habanero sauce on my food twice a week at minimum then dealing with the consequences the next morning! Buying a bidet really enabled me to shrug off my horrible dietary decisions even more than I already did, it's an absolute lifesaver!

Sounds like you don't eat it spicy enough

With enough hot sauce anything is possible.

American average diet sucks, so when they eat an inordinate amount of beans, they shit they heart out because they are not used to the fibers

I don't think it's about making people sick but rather so spicy the cracker body can't handle it because of their typically bland diets.

I live in an area that has no Mexican restaurants, Northern Europe, so I have searched for recipes and made them myself (well, tried my best obviously) and no sickness at all. I guess this myth is just about fastfood or restaurants' hygiene levels? (EDIT; And racism?)

They clearly haven't went to Pujol.

Several a social homebodoes experience with Latino Cuisine came mostly from Doritos and Taco Bell.

I live in the US, I don't understand this either. I've never experienced these purported issues. I'm guessing either I have a stronger than usual stomach or it's just played up for the memes?

I’m American and have never had an issue eating Mexican food and I eat it like three times per week. It’s just a bullshit, hack joke rooted in racism that somehow still proliferates.

I am an American in my 40s and I've never encountered it either. I eat a lot of Mexican food and a lot of spicy food from different cultures as well, so maybe I'm just acclimated? I feel like for some of these people the spiciest food they ever eat is taco bell and it just destroys them.

It probably boils down to people not getting enough fiber and beans end up acting like colon blow.

95% of Americans don't get their recommended daily amount of fiber. So when they finally do have beans, it's an experience.

I’m a Canadian in my 40s and a regular once-a-day shitter. I have not experienced a shit so violent that I have destroyed a toilet. However, I have enjoyed Thai food so spicy that my asshole burned.

Spicy food, is my understanding of this.

The best carnitas I ever had was at a place off Takeshita Street

It's getting easier to find, but it was really hard for years. Even if you find a place that does Mexican (or TexMex or CaliMex), the menus tend to be limited and it tends to be expensive. I think the place I go in my nearest big city (Sendai) has tacos that are only a few cm in diameter and like 500 JPY each (pre-tax median annual salary is < 5 million JPY).

I found one place that did decent TexMex in Tokyo and it really went downhill after corona IMO. Not only did the menu get smaller, the prices went up.

I'd say it's about as prevalent there as Vietnamese food is here in the US. Mid and large cities will definitely have it but outside there the best you'll get is maybe they'll have some tacos or quesadillas at an "American" restaurant, similar to how there'll be an "asian" restaurant in town that might serve one or two Vietnamese dishes.

Wasabi is very mild. Even milder than horseradish

i just eat it on its own. doesn't do much.

You made me suspect there's probably somebody out there who mixes a lot of wasabi into their natto.

I'm mexican, I love mexican, indian, thai food. I still have a bad time with them sometimes.

It's either beans, spice, or grease. They get more fiber than normal, they get some exceptionally spicy food, or more grease than normal. And the grease is only if they get taco bell or some other shitty "tex-mex" food.

Taco… rice?

I mean some sushi can give you food poisoning if it’s not prepared right

any food can give you food poisoning if it's not prepared correctly. undercooked hamburgers can kill you just as easily as tuna sashimi.

Just to note on fiber, there's a number of thai ingredients such as fragrant leafs that are added for smell and not to eat. Most of us eat around these but literally if you eat these add ins combined with the fantastic amount of bird beak peppers we love, you're going to have an interesting day. Another example, the number of seeds alone that you can find in some ส้มตำ is almost comparable to a chia flax smoothie. In my opinion the number of fresh plants is not something found in many other cuisines.

Eating like this may not even be possible for every meal, best start your day with a nice fried egg with rice to recover, you know. (Drizzle with chili vinegar fish sauce to survive until your next glorious meal)