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`... and don't spare the chillis my man` used to be my catchphrase.

I've probably eaten a fair amount of waiter spunk as a consequence.

bhuna/rogan josh/dupiaza? not hot enough

madras / jalfrezi? too hot

any suggestions?

I like spice but I hate spice. I like the taste of it but then it gets too hot and I can't taste anything after that. I had a noodle soup from Eat the other week and for some reason, she put extra chillis in it. I was sweating and crying at my desk all afternoon. And my already plump lips swelled (swelt?) up to twice the size!

I agree, nothing impressive about having the hottest thing available on the menu, it's the saddest way of showing off. Seen a lot of this carry on whilst watching Man Vs Food.

You fackin' POOFTAAAAH

Check out this pooftah eatin' a fackin' korma like a BLOUSE

or possibly a racist. Or both.

So when I get the chance I load up on spice like a failed crack addict who's just got out of rehab. It's invariably a terrible idea and I end up leaving most of my food on the plate.

For the record, despising chili warriors =/= not enjoying spice. I don't announce how much salt I just sprinkled on my dinner

your weedy taste buds

It burst in my hand. I LICKED MY HAND (that's right) and then couldn't feel my mouth/sobbed on the floor for about half of an hour.

That's all.

I love hot food. Spicier the better.

actually from Thailand or India.

A true spice warrior is going to look at them and make a snap decision at that point that the enjoyment or taste of the meal is going to have to be sacrificed to raise the stakes to the next level. I WILL NOT BE DEFEATED ON LEVELS OF CHILI

However I have absolutely no interest in how spicy other people like their food.

prik kee noo?

but there's a place for less spicy curries too. Sometimes too much spice obscures other flavours which are just as nice as the hot sensation. People WHO boast about how hot their curries are = possessors of teenyweeny peenies.

(Korma is delicious but I'd never order it because I've wrecked my palate and find it too bland now.)

I generally prefer Indian curries moderate, but Thai soups and salads are pretty awesome mouthwreckingly hot. Wah.

until he had to go and rinse his entire head off in an indian restaurant, can't even remmeber what it was he ahd

me, can't do too hot - although I have trained my taste up a few notches in last few years, still keep plenty of yogurt on hand and mainly have biriani

Isn't the delicious irony of that that Indian food doesn't make a big thing of being hot, and that it's just an assumption by SPICE LADs, resulting in 'English hot' being hotter than 'Indian hot'.

is pretty sad

However I have absolutely no interest in how other people like their steak cooked.

He makes quite a lot of food, but puts so much spice and hot sauce in everything. I like spice, but only every so often, like once a week. He thinks it's cool to be pissing with sweat and having spice visions after every meal.

He once bought a bottle of hot sauce called 100% PAIN. Yeah.

after me housemate bought me two bottles of chili sauce back from holiday.

i just like to cry when i eat. it reminds me of my childhood.

I eat these out of the JAR - http://www.ciao.co.uk/Karyatis_Mixed_Hot_Chillies__7624562

You faaahckin pooftahs!

I'm a bit of a wuss myself. I've been known to ask for a glass of milk to go with my curry.

Once when I was like 15 and at my mate's house getting high, his dad came in and told us that he had brought us a curry each (without asking). He'd got me a vindaloo, I'd never had one before. He was half pissed and just kind of stood there watching us eat. I have always been painfully polite to parents, and so ate it all. My mouth felt like a pulsating ulcer afterwards, I think that I drank about 4 pints of water. I stayed over there and let out a little fart in the morning. That fart was the closest that I have come to shitting myself ever. The rush to the toilet, and subsequent explosion must have woken everyone in the house. This was followed by about 5 minutes of desperately trying to open the window, use a lighter to 'burn the methane' and semi sobs at the state of my bumhole. Walked out of the bathroom and my mates Dad was stood at his door with the same smile on his face.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3cjgEw-ANw&sns=em

No point going to a restaurant for some exotic spicy food if you're gonna bland it up with a Korma.

I have a friend who once threw up after eating a korma at a restaurant because it was too spicy. he sat there for the rest of the meal wiping sweat from his brow, downing glass after glass of milk.

he is french.

i'm all about szechuan pepper, darling

but people that feel the need to add salt to EVERYTHING

easy way to single out people not raised properly

In my experience there seems to be an obsessive complex with some who 'JUST DONT GET' spicy food and decide to paint every person who enjoys spicy food with the same brush. As if it's a cut throat YAY or NAY and everyone who enjoys spicy food is enjoying it in the same way or doing it for the same reasons. I'd agree with the comparison above about steaks. It's just really easy to look at fat desperate lonesome sweating men at an indian restaurant and think this is the only reason why people enjoy spicy food. I think with some (not all) people who dismiss spicy food have an attitude of all or nothing. Like there is no complexity or difference to the vast different tastes and varieties.

Basically people who enjoy spicy food aren't ALL wankers. (Bedwetters...)

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Then I don't pay.