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      No. It’s the only way men can experience pregnancy contractions. At least I have, once, when doing a spicy challenge. I did win it, but about 6 hours later I got some rumbly in my tumbly, then, another 3 hours later, all broke loose. The only feeling I had was pain. My stomach hurt, my intestines hurt, my butthole hurt. My body pressed itself free from this spicyness. Over an hour of contractions and pain. I was sweating, I was crying. Every time I thought it was finally over, another contraction. The heat started. It felt cold at times, before becoming hot again. And what did I do this for? Well, I got a shirt I got too fat to wear. And I got to say the best pickup line in my life: I only got this because you’re even hotter than that.

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      There was another one similar to this that had a message for the cooks like “make him regret being born.”

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          I’m not in the office for a while but there’s a place near my office that makes pad Thai that melts my face off and their flavoring is the best I’ve ever had. I can’t be bothered to leave the house but I am so very tempted. I wish I could have it delivered!

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            Man I went to this Thai food place and they repeatedly warned me about how hot it was and I’m like pfffft I’ve had had and most places that warn you don’t live up to it. But man was it way to damn spicy, the next morning my pee burned and I was on the toilet half the day

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      This shit is like me. If I’m going to a Thai place I’m not a regular at, it’s pretty much impossible for them to serve some white guy the hot stuff. Even actual “Southern Thai hot” isn’t hot enough for my screwed up tastes to catch a real heat buzz, so normally what I get served seems heatless to me.

      What usually gets the point home is telling the waitress its good tasting, but bland, and asking if I could have some birds eye pepper to put extra on it. For all the talk about how hot Thai food is, all they actually use are birds eye peppers (fresh, or dried and ground), which are around as hot as a Serrano pepper, or about half to a third as hot as a habanero. So for someone who can just eat a habanero, them going weak on the birds eye means I’m really not getting the kick I crave. Asking specifically for the hottest thing they put in their food (just me knowing what peppers they are) usually takes care of it.

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        I enjoy eating habanero peppers! Good flavor! Makes good salsa too.

        We have a lot of tourists and “Thai hot” still doesn’t get you anywhere. You have to make (good natured) threats to get the real deal.

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          “The only way I will send this back is if it isn’t spicy enough. Tell the chef he has a weak little Denmark pallette who thinks a bell pepper will burn his lips off.”

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    I question the choice of sauce bottle. That’s clearly sriracha, and as someone who doesn’t consider themselves a hot sauce person, it’s not hot, it just contains chillies. I don’t think anyone who goes back for seconds after melting their face would melt their face with sriracha.

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      I’m not too ashamed to admit that siracha will make me feel pain. I do not find the pain from spicy enjoyable tho

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        I think that’s the difference. Someone who does enjoy it will quickly build a tolerance to that level of spice.

        My cousin once drank from a Sriracha sauce bottle like it was a water bottle because he enjoyed the flavour that much. He regretted it when he realized that his mouth had built more tolerance than his other end, though.

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      Some people say that peperroni pizza is too hot for them.

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      I’m convinced Sriracha is different in different places. Obviously, different brands have varied heat but the classic one available worldwide is definitely hot, it’s not extreme but definitely hot. I wouldn’t call myself a hot sauce person either but I do enjoy hot foods and condiments, I’d say about average on heat sensitivity. I know several people who just can’t have Sriracha because it’s too hot for them, and it’s easy to make something too hot with a lot of it IMO.

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      Yeah this isn’t even gatekeeping spiciness. He might as well be using a ketchup bottle

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    if there is a sriracha sauce somewhere in the world thats actually this hot I want it, but normally its nothing like this.

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      Last time I was at a firehouse subs, I noticed they had a spicy sauce rack with everything labeled from 1 to 10 in spiciness. They only had ones going up to 8 at the time, so I tried adding a little bit of the 8 to my sandwich. Sriracha was like a 5 iirc.

      I think it was a linear scale though because I didn’t really notice anything from the little bit I put on my sandwich. Put more on the other half and even then, it didn’t leave much heat.

      Yet if I eat a slice of fresh cayenne when cooking, it will burn intensely for a good 5 minutes and I know that it’s only around the middle of the spice scale, which is logarithmic.

      I wish humans didn’t have the ego issue that results in “some products are labeled very spicy when they aren’t so that fragile egos can act like they can handle more spice than they really can”. I’m kinda tired of needing to calibrate every single spicy thing trying to find some good heat without worrying about whether the extreme spice warning is accurate or just playing into that ego thing. I want enjoyable heat, not burn your face off.

      Though I suppose part of it might be because I don’t think a single person can accurately measure the amount of heat in a variety of sauces from mild to very hot. Your own tolerance plays an important role and everything less spicy than your ideal will seem barely spicy at all and everything more will seem very spicy.

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      Since Huy Fong completely fucked over his pepper suppliers every batch is now wildly different so you never know how spicy a bottle is going to be!

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        Yea, what a dickhead. I never understand the mentality of a successful collaboration going to someones head getting them to think, let me just squeeze the supplier of this critical ingredient.

        Case study as to why you can’t let a single customer monopolize your business income.

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        oh man, I had heard there were shortages, but I never knew there was drama that went as deep as it did. That was a fun read.

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      I actually ended up using sriracha as a “cooling down”-agent for when I tested some absurd butt-blazing fire-fire-pants-on-fire hot sauce.

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        Yeah, I agree. I’m not the biggest fan of Sriracha, but the purpose isn’t to be spicy. It’s to add spices and flavor. You can add other stuff in addition to make things spicy. Similarly, Tabasco is a seasoning. It’s technically labeled a hot sauce, but it’s very mild and there for the flavor. There’s plenty of other options to increase the heat. They serve different purposes.

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    I like that his fork melted. That’s a nice touch.

    I know someone exactly like this. Frequently complains about the burn and heartburn, and keeps doing it anyway.

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    After Sriracha stopped producing, I found a big ol’ bottle of the sauce I had accidentally hidden behind some protein powder in my pantry. I enjoyed the hell out of it. slathered pizzas, spiced soup, made sriracha aoli for sandwiches. Just ran out the other day. The new tobasco brand just doesn’t have the same balance between sweet and spicy that real sriracha does. It’s a shame. I enjoyed it while it lasted, at least

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      Not that they need me to advertise for them, but my understanding is that there’s quite a lot of flavor variety in the “Hot Ones” sauces. I do not enjoy spiciness, so I cannot comment on their quality beyond that.

      The Kent Survival YouTube channel does also frequently reference the many tastes in their sauces, but again, I cannot personally comment on quality.

      One of my old co-workers literally carries around an unlabeled bottle of white sauce that he claims is both flavorful and spicy. Our other erstwhile co-workers disagree and say that the spiciness overwhelms everything else, but he swears by it. I can see if he’ll disclose what it is.

      Regardless of whether you pursue any of my suggestions, I hope you find the balance you seek!

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        As someone who loves spicy to the point of literally sweating, do NOT get The Bomb from Hot Ones. That shit is not fit for human consumption. Literally 2 drops for a plate of food is a risk. When I first got it, I put a dab on a chip and tried it directly. The head high felt like I was on actual drugs. Once in a while, I’ll bust it out just to know I still feel. It’s not for food though.

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        If you figure out what your coworkers sauce of choice is, let me know too. I love spice, but haven’t found a good staple to keep on hand.

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        I think the biggest concern is if they’re still using the same chilis as before. There was some falling out between Huy Fong and its supplier over payment. Not sure if they settled it though.

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      I also did not care for the Tabasco version, but couldn’t articulate the reason. Melinda’s is what I finally switched to after I couldn’t find Sriracha brand. I like many of their other sauces as well, particularly their Black Truffle Hot Sauce.

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    This is so me. I absolutely love Sriracha! I find it to be just the right level of spiciness for every day food. Doesn’t bother me at all. There’s plenty of other hot sauces out there that are just stupid hot and aren’t nearly as enjoyable

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      I tried gochujiang, and haven’t looked back at sriracha even once. I highly recommend trying some! It’s got a much deeper flavor, imo

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    I enjoy spicy food once in a while, but I don’t get why anyone would actively make it extremely hot on purpose. It doesn’t enhance the taste, it actually makes the food taste less since you mainly taste the spice.

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          Yes?

          If you haven’t, read up on what endorphins do. Among other things, they suppress pain by making you feel good.

          I like to describe spicy food as a way to experience a pain that is 100% not actually hurting you. All that capsaicin is doing is tricking your nerves.

          I like the flavors that a lot of the lower-tier hot peppers produce. Jalapenos and Habaneros go into a lot of the food I make for myself, but that’s more of a flavor decision where the heat is a neat side effect. As you go up the heat scale, though, the flavors themselves start to get overpowered (at least for me).

          There is, though, a sweet spot where the heat becomes too much for you, and your brain jumps in to help. That’s where the endorphins kick in and the experience changes from “This is too spicy for me…” to “This is best damn chicken sandwich I’ve ever had!” while mopping your brow.

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      The title already explained it. It’s for the endorphin rush. Also, sometimes your food tastes like crap, and you just want to cover up the taste.

      I generally don’t like sauce that is only hot. I like it to have flavor, too.

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      It’s fine if you don’t get it, but for some people the spice is as important, or more important, than the flavor

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        Am I not allowed to not understand things?

        You could just explain why your opinion differs, so I might learn

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    I am trying not to make it a contest, but comics like this make it very difficult to hold back. I don’t think people should eat spicy food beyond their comfort zone as some kind of show of toughness. This comic seems to be revealing in being tough for eating seconds of Sriracha though. People who have this Hot Sauce Bro mentality tend to be lightweights with inflated egos.