the new hotness

[moominmolly]

Poll

This post brought to you by the fact that spike just managed to score me some of the awesome and delicious Belizean habanero sauce that I fell in love with when dilletante and I went to "Scotland" last year.

Comments

[nex0s]

ALSO: Only if it's hot from something other than caspicum. Black pepper, gingers, wasabi - all OK! Hot peppers? Sadly, no more!

[moominmolly]

Oh sadness!

I am much more moderate with non-capsicum-spiciness - it's often harder for me to take.

[nex0s]

BTW, OT: Socks?

N.

[moominmolly]

! Dude! Crap! Thank you! They are boxed and lonely in my bedroom. I'm so sorry! *puts it back in my calendar and adds a surprise giftie*

[the_xtina]

My exception is wasabi, which is (a) not oil-based and thus is unlikely to stick around forever, and (b) yumtious.

[dolohov]

I had to answer both "YES ZOMG" and "No." I do loves me some spicy hot food. But oh, my poor innards protest mightily when I indulge.

[pseydtonne]

I have become a spice-centric person over recent years. My tolerance has gone through the roof, which has also made me more discerning about the flavors in the spice.

I want to feel things in different parts of my mouth when the spice hits. I don't want to be assaulted -- I want a concerted attack by a genius. I want flavors to work with the spices.

Besides, I'm also doing this to make some dull vegetables worth eating. They're mostly roughage and I need roughage, but I want to know they're here to be eaten and not simply coal miners.

[bluepapercup]

I take it easy on the hot peppers as they're a bit irritating to my digestive tract. As long as I'm not eating them all the time, and it's not overly spicy food, I'm fine. My metric is: if it hurts, it's too spicy.

I loooove black-pepper crusted fish or steak, and it took me a while to be able to understand that my body reacted differently to that than the other hot peppers.

Generally I prefer spice as an accent rather than the dominant taste or flavor experience.

[whynotkay]

I read that as "I prefer (ljuser) spike as an accent", which gave it an entirely different meaning.