What the hell is wrong with you people

"ptak appreciates old racecars" (racecarptak)
10/15/2017 at 02:04 • Filed to: HOT TAKE

Food isn’t supposed to hurt.

More and more I see people obsessed with suffering as much as possible during their meals. Why? Food is supposed to be tasty and pleasant, it should fill you up with contentment and/or energy. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not scared of trying new things. I tried fried zucchini yesterday. But there are activities associated with adrenaline highs, and eating is not one of them. Skydiving, motorcycle racing, 19 missed texts from mom. Food. See, doesn’t fit. I don’t understand. I guess I’m just not cool enough to self harm during a meal.

You poor people probably like Mexican food too.

Jesus didn’t want this.

DISCUSSION (23)

wafflesnfalafel > ptak appreciates old racecars
10/15/2017 at 02:08

I like the spice - but I agree, it shouldn’t hurt. Solid 3.5-4 stars. And give me a beer to wash it down.

pip bip - choose Corrour > ptak appreciates old racecars
10/15/2017 at 02:15

I agree, food going in and out shouldn’t hurt

Steve in Manhattan > ptak appreciates old racecars
10/15/2017 at 02:21

I grew up in a kosher home - overcooked meat, mushy vegetables, pasta anything but al dente, no mixing of dairy and meat (NO CHEESEBURGERS!) and a general lack of flavor. I have suffered enough. Just a bit of heat for me, please.

Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch > ptak appreciates old racecars
10/15/2017 at 02:22

More like Milk Take.

Heat adds a great component to food, I add Sriracha to damn near everything anymore. That being said, adding heat for the sake of just heat without flavor is no good.

SpeedSix > ptak appreciates old racecars
10/15/2017 at 02:41

Searing take (see what I did there) - this is coming from someone who claims that all spaghetti is not food

Aremmes > ptak appreciates old racecars
10/15/2017 at 02:47

Try some spicy food (i.e., vindaloo, suicide wings, that sort) followed by your favorite booze. See, it’s never about the heat itself, instead it’s always been about the endorphin kick afterwards. Capsaicin just happens to be the safest route to it.

Svend > ptak appreciates old racecars
10/15/2017 at 02:53

So true.

A couple of years ago or so a colleague asked if I fancied trying the new Indian buffet restaurant. I thought why not, I wasn’t going to be working that night, he was though.

So we go in soon after work, the place has just opened and we are the first in. My colleague asks, ‘which is the hottest curry?’. I tell him the phal is the hottest there followed by another I can’t remember and then the vindaloo, etc... He says, ‘I’ll go for the vindaloo’. I ask if he’s ever had such spicy food before and he says no. So I tell him to go easy and we go back to our table.

Before he starts eating I tell him to try just a bit of sauce with a lot of rice first to taste it. Go goes all out and forks a large piece of chicken with a lot of sauce and a little rice. Well doesn’t the idiot start huffing and puffing trying to get as much air into his mouth as possible, then takes a large gulp of beer as I shout not to. I call one of the staff to bring some cucumber yoghurt quickly. I tell the colleague to dip a bit of naan bread into the yoghurt and look around to see him taking a video selfie of him sweating and talking into his phone. Idiot.

I like to taste food not suffer for it.

Powershiftmedia-ResidentDSMGuru > ptak appreciates old racecars
10/15/2017 at 02:56

I’ll take all the heat I can handle

Birddog > ptak appreciates old racecars
10/15/2017 at 03:39

I love “Mexican food”! It has not hurt me once.

Ok.. Maybe once.

Or twice.

Stuff like Cholula and Tabasco add or enhance flavor. Seriously. Two drops of Tabasco in something as mundane as Mac and Cheese or Pasta sauce wakes things up.

Beyond that you’re talking Bar bets. If a drop on a toothpick makes you sweat you’re doing it wrong.

ptak appreciates old racecars > Svend
10/15/2017 at 05:46

Wow, just wow.

So he did it on purpose? For a YouTube show or something?

And he had work later that day?

What the hell, people?

Svend > ptak appreciates old racecars
10/15/2017 at 06:30

No it’s one of those stupid bravado things, ‘look at me I can eat the hottest food’.

He ended up calling in sick for work that evening, it was 12 hours between eating and the shift starting.

Soft idiot.

ptak appreciates old racecars > Svend
10/15/2017 at 06:34

That’s actually hilarious. One wouldn’t do that with alcohol, so why hot food. see: title of post

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > ptak appreciates old racecars
10/15/2017 at 07:44

Nothing wrong with good Mexican food, and most of it isn’t terribly spicy. I like a little heat for flavor, but not to the point of causing pain. When I go to my usual Mexican joint I usually have three tacos and a side of beans. They provide three salsas with the meal, and I usually just put a hint of the medium on my tacos and in my beans. Not enough to hurt, but just enough to get a little hit of the spice. The hot salsa’s too damn hot (even the medium is spicier than I prefer) and the mild is just dull and flavorless, so it’s a matter of mixing up something that’s pleasant and without pain.

Oh, and most people don’t know what liquid to ingest if it’s too hot. Water, beer, soda etc. are useless and just spread the heat, like pouring water on an oil fire. Dairy - that’s the key.

shop-teacher > ptak appreciates old racecars
10/15/2017 at 09:06

Right there with you. I like the taste of spicy food. I’m not interested in being in pain though.

dsigned001 - O.R.C. hunter > ptak appreciates old racecars
10/15/2017 at 09:56

As someone who likes a decent amount of heat: define “hurt”. There’s some food that’s just better with a bit of kick.

That said, the bravado is just that. It’s not enjoyable to eat food that’s so hot you have trouble actually eating enough

BeaterGT > ptak appreciates old racecars
10/15/2017 at 10:02

Nothing wrong with spicy food. Jalapenos are too hot for some, not hot at all to others. I don’t want to inquire about the spicy missed texts from mom.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > ptak appreciates old racecars
10/15/2017 at 10:02

Honestly the main reason I like spicy food is because my sinuses are always clogged and hot food clears them out for a while.

I do looooove just a touch of heat tho. But I’m not so much into “ eat I can eat more hot wings than you” anymore. But at the same time my “just a touch if heat” is some people’s “oh my god it burns, what kind of demon food is this?”

TorqueToYield > ptak appreciates old racecars
10/15/2017 at 10:41

Meh, different people have different levels of spicy tolerance. After decades of eating spicy food I can hang with the big boys and it doesn’t ‘hurt’ at all, I enjoy the flavor. I let me wife try it and she’s a hard no, but still enjoys spicy food. I let her friend try it who thinks black pepper is spicy and she has a crying fit break down. So yea, what’s enjoyable to me isn’t enjoyable to everybody - different strokes for different folks and all that.

And (real) Mexican food is delicious - enjoyed and made by many Jesus’.

Bryan doesn't drive a 1M > Svend
10/16/2017 at 14:23

“I like to taste food”

Your avatar is a British flag, I don’t believe you.

CaptDale - is secretly British > ptak appreciates old racecars
10/16/2017 at 14:39

I love Mexican food because it is 99% of the time ver delightful and tasty.

Also I love to eat spicy food. Raw jalapeno, yes please. Could kill a toddler? I’ll take two helpings please.

Svend > Bryan doesn't drive a 1M
10/16/2017 at 16:33

Your American,

Sue me or shoot me.

We’ll take again when you’ve tried a proper Cumberland pie, Cumberland sausage, beef-dripping Yorkshire puddings with a beef roast, a butter pastry pork pie with yelly made from boiled pigs trotters, flaky pastry sausage rolls, etc...

Bryan doesn't drive a 1M > Svend
10/16/2017 at 17:54

Flaky pastry sausage rolls are delicious, but you lost me at “yelly made from boiled pigs trotters”

Svend > Bryan doesn't drive a 1M
10/16/2017 at 19:15

When you make a proper pork pie you boil up a pigs trotter/huff, then after making a small hole in the top of a just out the oven pork pie, inject some of the liquid into the hole. As the pie and the liquid cool down the liquid turns into a jelly. It makes the pie more moist. Soooo good.