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Or just buy some ghost pepper sauce?

Spicy for normies. It's the same over here. 3 out 3 peppers on the menu, feels like zero peppers.

i always carry hot sauce in my purse https://theweek.com/speedreads/619127/clinton-stirs-anger-by-claiming-carries-hot-sauce-bag-like-beyonc

I'll join you in this class action. It is a definite atrocity.

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On a scale from Canadian/UK “spicy” Indian/Mexican/Thai/Sichuan food to the real thing, where do you fall? The problem is, it’s hard to please everybody. Fake Brit “spicy” food is already too much for my wife… and I can barely feel any heat. Meanwhile, anything close to real levels of proper Mexican (not Tex-Mex) spiciness means I’ll be spending a couple of days at the loo, spitting fire out of my behind. Apologies for the graphic scene 🤣🤣🤣

They need a way to describe higher levels of spiciness. A lot of people can't handle legit spice action. They don't want to ambush regular people with brutal intensity.

if you didn't enjoy the food on the way in and on the way out, then it wasn't spicy

This is true. Very few so-called spicy dishes have heat. Wilbur's Revenge sauce at Famous Daves is one that delivers. It might not be on the menu, and it's definitely not on the table. You have to special order it. If they put that on the table there would be actual lawsuits.

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this post is spicy like restaurant food

Be careful asking for spicy in Thai or Indian places though. Sometimes the chef will take it as a challenge. 🥵

When are you next in London?

This. Years ago, I was a somewhat regular patron of a local Thai place. Waiter knew us pretty well... always asked if we wanted '2 hot' or '3 hot'... 2 was mild. 3 was just a little hot. So, one day, I asked for '4 hot'. I almost died that day. 😅

There is even another level above 4 ‘Thai hot’ if you are ever feeling like experiencing a psychedelic journey in your bowl of curry 🤪

At our cafe, if you ask for spicy, the only thing we have available are Carolina reapers.

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We used to bring our spice to restaurants. Its a real game changer!

The opposite is also true, lots of things not clearly marked as spicy but actually are. And forget about asking staff if something is spicy hot… since everyone’s tolerance of spicy food is different there’s no way you’ll get an answer that matches your own tolerance. It’s a hit or miss.