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How "hot-n-spicy" do YOU like it?

When ordering or preparing food, how spicy do you generally get it?

  • Extremely spicy! I like my face red and my eyes watering.

    Votes: 21 38.2%
  • Sometimes I have it extrememly spicy; more often, I have it milder.

    Votes: 13 23.6%
  • "Medium spicy" is what I generally go for.

    Votes: 12 21.8%
  • Mild all the way!

    Votes: 6 10.9%
  • I despise spicy food!

    Votes: 3 5.5%

  • Total voters
    55

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The idea for this poll was sparked over lunch, when me and a friend went to go eat buffalo wings. I always order them blazing hot - the spiciest I can get. My friend says that almost no one enjoys extremely spicy food, and my taste for it is a rare thing. So I was curious. How many people enjoy extremely spicy food?

Poll may seem silly, but I am curious.

EDIT: Poll added, and food doesn't have to be simply buffalo wings. It can be anything that is served with the option of "spicy".
 
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I like it hot enough to make my eyes water but not blazing that will make me feel ill. So sort of in between.
 
I'll do the blazin' as well, but I am of Cajun/Spanish decent and have spent my entire life eating ridiculously hot food, so I'm used to it.
 
Im with ya, the spicer the better. Most foods labeled spicy are not spicy imo. Its a rare treat to find anyone serving what I consider spicy.

Like you I know people that cannot handle anything even slightly warm much less mouth numbing hot. Perhaps they view pain as exclusivly bad while we can find enjoyment in certain pains.
 
Im with ya, the spicer the better. Most foods labeled spicy are not spicy imo. Its a rare treat to find anyone serving what I consider spicy.

Like you I know people that cannot handle anything even slightly warm much less mouth numbing hot. Perhaps they view pain as exclusivly bad while we can find enjoyment in certain pains.
Some of my favorite foods are on the hot side, not because of the pain, just the overwhelming array of flavors coming from the spices. I love ethnic foods mainly because they give me a different taste experience, but especially because the delicacies could start a brush fire, Thai, Indian food, anything with Curry or Habenero. And now I'm getting hungry.
 
I like to go up in flames once in a while. Sushi with the green stuff and the ginger root can light you up, if the hot stuff is fresh and potent. I love Mexican, Indian and Thai too.

OTOH I have to be a little more careful how much of that I do these days, my digestive tract is now middle-aged and will only suffer so much abuse. :mrgreen:
 
I like it hot.

Back in college a friend and I used to try out the different clubs, restaurants, bars in town trying to find the hottest wings we could find. Finally we found a new place and I ordered the "hottest" wings they had.

The owner of the restaurant came out and told us that the "hottest" he had wasn't even on the menu. He was holding a bottled that was labeled "INSANITY". He let me read the back of it and it said "great as a food additive, for removing polish from furniture or oil stains from drive-ways" (I-kid-you-not!).

I was only able to eat three of them and was then ready to kill myself.

I love hot but I don't try to find the hottest around any longer. I've been beat.
 
I'm a savory kind of guy, never really liked the whole obsession with hot stuff.

It can go to retarded extremes for no reason.

I know what you mean. One time, I was putting some crushed red pepper on my pizza, when the cap fell off and a ton of it came on the pizza. I brushed off the excess that didn't stick to the pizza and ate it.

I regretted it the day after, if you get what I'm saying. ;)

Thats the problem, eating super spicy food doesn't burn going in, but also coming out hehe.
 
I like my food extremely spicy.

The problem is that my mouth does not realize that my colon is more susceptible to the effects of spicy food, my warning system is broken, and I realize that what i ate was a tad too spicy the following morning.
 
i want it to be so hot it turns my **** into red hot magma
 
I like it hot.

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The owner of the restaurant came out and told us that the "hottest" he had wasn't even on the menu. He was holding a bottled that was labeled "INSANITY". He let me read the back of it and it said "great as a food additive, for removing polish from furniture or oil stains from drive-ways" (I-kid-you-not!).

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That was probably "Dave's Insanity Sauce". I tried some once...only once. Even people who are loopy for hot stuff use it sparingly. I think there was an effort to take it off the market for causing mouth blisters in some cases.
 
As I expected.

Its the 'cliche cool' thing to say you like really spicy food.

It goes along with other 'cliche cool' things, like saying your irish or native american, or both.
 
I like it spicy enough that my eyes water and nose runs. Especially Indian food, Chinese food, and Chili.
 
I like to go up in flames once in a while. Sushi with the green stuff and the ginger root can light you up, if the hot stuff is fresh and potent. I love Mexican, Indian and Thai too.

OTOH I have to be a little more careful how much of that I do these days, my digestive tract is now middle-aged and will only suffer so much abuse. :mrgreen:

It is awsome and it's called Wasabi.;)
 
I love spicy food, especially indian food, jummy!
 
Sometimes I like it spicy and sometimes I like it mild. I love Korean ramen,which is spicy, I also like Franks Red Hot sauce with fried catfish or fried chicken, I also like Hoppin John spicy,Spaghetti Aglio e Olio with lots of red pepper flake and garlic,Church's and Popeye's spicy fried chicken and Church's Dirty rice. I do not care for that much Wasabi on my sushi.
 
"That was probably "Dave's Insanity Sauce". I tried some once...only once. Even people who are loopy for hot stuff use it sparingly. I think there was an effort to take it off the market for causing mouth blisters in some cases." - Goshin

It should be!

Screw water-boarding. Use this stuff on the terrorist at Gitmo and you won't get them to shut-up!
 
Well, my favorite pizza is pepperoni and jalapeno. I love spicy food (especially Thai!!!), but not so spicy that you can't taste anything else.
 
Spicy food is my favorite thing ever.

Tabasco Sauce single-handedly allowed me to eat MREs (meals ready to eat) in the Marines. God bless hot sauce.

I went to the taste of Chicago yesterday and went with a spicy theme for myself.

Crawfish, thai curry, shark meat with hot sauce...mmmmmm-mmmmmm!
 
I have always found it strange how people love to torture themselves with food that burns the mouth:)
 
Spicy food is my favorite thing ever.

Tabasco Sauce single-handedly allowed me to eat MREs (meals ready to eat) in the Marines. God bless hot sauce.

I went to the taste of Chicago yesterday and went with a spicy theme for myself.

Crawfish, thai curry, shark meat with hot sauce...mmmmmm-mmmmmm!


Yup...and you recall what the "other use" for that little hot sauce bottle with the indention in the cap is? :mrgreen:
 
Food should taste like pain.

Don't know that it's "trendy", though. Whenever I start putting hot sauce on my food with people who don't know me well enough, usually someone at the table starts with "Dude, stop. You're scaring the children."

Then it's "Dude, stop. You're scaring the ladies."

Finally, "Dude... stop. You're scaring me."

Couple more scoops, and usually one spoon straight out of the bottle, and I'm ready to begin eating.
 
I'm more of a mild type of guy. Cracked pepper and cajun is just about fine for me.

To compensate, I'm a salt, salt, salt man. Nothing is ever too salty for me.
 
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