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It took months to convince my family that the extra hot was mildy warm. But also at a wagamamas in London I had them do double extra hot on their hottest dish

It took months to convince my family that the extra hot was mildy warm. But also at a wagamamas in London I had them do double extra hot on their hottest dish and could barely tell. I'm American from the Midwest living in Seattle. I refer to many spicy thing like that golden extra spicy as "spicy as katsup"

xboxnolifes 4y ago
This is my problem with a lot of spiciness advertising around me (in America). When I order something advertised as "hot" or "very hot", 90% of the time it's either medium/mild at best, or just packed with spicy peppers to the point of just tasting bad. But it can be hard to communicate to some people when their upper level of spice tolerance is banana peppers.
- grogenaut 4y ago
  I think the UK levels of spice are much lower than the US having been both places. Throw the pineapple chutney that I had at an Indian restaurant Bombay style in London plus summer was quite warm and delicious.
- genocidicbunny 4y ago
  > This is my problem with a lot of spiciness advertising around me (in America). It might just be a thing around here, but a lot of Indian or Thai restaurants have two separate heat scales, the 'normal' one, and the Indian or Thai one. One of the Thai restaurants that I used to frequent, for example, had a scale where 'spicy' was the same as 'Thai mild' and 'Thai spicy' would genuinely make your hair stand on end.
  - grogenaut 4y ago
    It takes so much buy in to get them to take you seriously on spice sometimes.
    - genocidicbunny 4y ago
      I don't blame them, and partially thank them. Far too many people are way too cavalier with ordering the spiciest dish and then blaming the restaurant for the dish not tasting good. Its also a lot easier to up the spice level on a dish than lower it. A curry that isn't spicy enough can be made spicier; A curry that is too spicy likely cannot be made milder.
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yakubin 4y ago
In my experience, "spicy ketchup" is almost never spicy, even in the least. What distinguishes it from other ketchups is that it's less sweet (but still very sweet). The only actually spicy ketchup I found is "Kotlin Extra Hot", but I'm not sure if it's a thing outside of Poland.
- grogenaut 4y ago
  You mistake what I'm saying. Katsup is not spicy. I'm saying "you must think katsup is spicy"... it's more funny to people than saying "as spicy as water", "Man this catsup shore is spicy" just works better for a joke. I'll have to try and find the Kotlin extra hot at the Eastern European grocery by my house.
  - yakubin 4y ago
    Yeah, I got that. Just wanted to expand on the weirdness of what "spicy ketchup" seems to mean in practice. Fair warning: "Kotlin Extra Hot", although a bit spicy, still doesn't hold a candle to what Indian cuisine can offer (or Japanese — e.g. wasabi).
    - grogenaut 4y ago
      yes but then I can talk sh*t to my polish coworker who loves any polish cultural references. Anyway thanks for the referral.

xboxnolifes 4y ago

This is my problem with a lot of spiciness advertising around me (in America). When I order something advertised as "hot" or "very hot", 90% of the time it's either medium/mild at best, or just packed with spicy peppers to the point of just tasting bad. But it can be hard to communicate to some people when their upper level of spice tolerance is banana peppers.

grogenaut 4y ago
I think the UK levels of spice are much lower than the US having been both places. Throw the pineapple chutney that I had at an Indian restaurant Bombay style in London plus summer was quite warm and delicious.
genocidicbunny 4y ago
> This is my problem with a lot of spiciness advertising around me (in America). It might just be a thing around here, but a lot of Indian or Thai restaurants have two separate heat scales, the 'normal' one, and the Indian or Thai one. One of the Thai restaurants that I used to frequent, for example, had a scale where 'spicy' was the same as 'Thai mild' and 'Thai spicy' would genuinely make your hair stand on end.
- grogenaut 4y ago
  It takes so much buy in to get them to take you seriously on spice sometimes.
  - genocidicbunny 4y ago
    I don't blame them, and partially thank them. Far too many people are way too cavalier with ordering the spiciest dish and then blaming the restaurant for the dish not tasting good. Its also a lot easier to up the spice level on a dish than lower it. A curry that isn't spicy enough can be made spicier; A curry that is too spicy likely cannot be made milder.
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yakubin 4y ago

In my experience, "spicy ketchup" is almost never spicy, even in the least. What distinguishes it from other ketchups is that it's less sweet (but still very sweet). The only actually spicy ketchup I found is "Kotlin Extra Hot", but I'm not sure if it's a thing outside of Poland.

grogenaut 4y ago
You mistake what I'm saying. Katsup is not spicy. I'm saying "you must think katsup is spicy"... it's more funny to people than saying "as spicy as water", "Man this catsup shore is spicy" just works better for a joke. I'll have to try and find the Kotlin extra hot at the Eastern European grocery by my house.
- yakubin 4y ago
  Yeah, I got that. Just wanted to expand on the weirdness of what "spicy ketchup" seems to mean in practice. Fair warning: "Kotlin Extra Hot", although a bit spicy, still doesn't hold a candle to what Indian cuisine can offer (or Japanese — e.g. wasabi).
  - grogenaut 4y ago
    yes but then I can talk sh*t to my polish coworker who loves any polish cultural references. Anyway thanks for the referral.