food

The usual go-to nighttime drunken dish is pita or durum, served with a large bowl of chili on the side so you can slather it yourself. There's a large middle eastern population here as well.

So is that who the chilis are for? I see this situation in germany and it's not the white people going for chili, usually

Oh, so it's an excuse to be racist

Makes sense

Priced to move... your colon to the toilet

I sweated through a t-shirt after eating the 2x spicy ones

I would have probably been hospitalized if I ate the 3x spicy

Yeah, I used to think I could handle pretty much anything in terms of spiciness, and those noodles kicked my ass

Calling it poisoning is a bit melodramatic though

for real. I thought it had to be a distortion. the wiki on danish cuisine is brutal though:

Historian Søren Mørch has characterized the Danish cuisine as a "garbage kitchen" of insipid, sweet and unspiced "baby food" where the tastes of milk and sweetness form the key elements. He believes that it arose because the export policy of the Danish food sector was to use the Danish home market as a "gutter" for left-over products, after high-quality bacon and butter had been sold abroad. Skimmed milk, meat scraps only suitable for chopping up, and the replacement product margarine are all products which Søren Mørch describes as residue products.

One of my friends legit can't handle black pepper, she says it's just overwhelming

She also lacks a sense of smell, so it probably has something to do with that

I thought it wasn't a real thing until at a recent family gathering when food talk came up and I found out one of my cousins apparently cant stand too much black pepper, her baby nieces have a higher tolerance for spice than her.

Plain bizarre to even conceive of.

I have a friend who considers Tomatoes spicy. YMMV on whether she has a mild allergy or something but y'know

Black pepper is spicy. However, I only realized this like 15 or so years into my life when I made a Norwegian dish that called for copious amounts of whole peppercorns. In 99.9% of meals, you're not using enough to make it spicy.

Like, the package shows you a chicken breathing fire on it

Yeah but in Nordic countries we put similar imagery on products that have a homeopathic amount of capsaicin in them

The stuff in Germany was one kid sent to the ER after eating one of these carolina reaper chips on a dare in school - you know, the ones where it's just one chip in the entire coffin shaped box, that are intentionally marketed to people who want to brag about how much spice they can handle. The scoville on buldak aren't anywhere in the same ballpark as that and honestly i think all of this is kinda ridiculous when there's hot sauces where one drop too many can be enough to make an entire pot of chili too spicy for most people. Capsaicin is a thing that just exists in nature and in an untold number of preparations that are more powerful than a sauce package in instant ramen. I'm not familiar with buldak noodles myself because they aren't vegan afaik, but a friend of mine said that the 3x ones "are tasty". Granted, she once made a ramen place in our town run out of chili oil, but it was really weak chili oil.

that's clearly a Dutch accent and Danes sound like Dutch people, so it's closer than whatever an American ideas of a Swedish accent would be