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[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Why's it always fucking ghost peppers, why can't it be one that actually tastes good like bonnets or reapers.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Western food ideology treats spicy food as like an extreme sport and not a general component of flavour, so you get people who won't eat anything remotely spicy at all and you get people who want it to be as unpleasant as possible as some kind of experience. People who are just normal about appreciating food spiciness and flavour seem to be the minority.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's especially stupid now that reapers exist because those fuckers are delicious for the 0.22s before your tongue shuts down.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's why I like some of that spicy Thai chili paste. Sambal... something. I basically need off the next day, but it's so worth it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Sambal oelek yeah that shit rocks

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

White people shouldn’t be allowed to produce food

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Love a nice scotch bonnet

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

my dude what are you on about ghost peppers are delicious. They taste like a combination of red thai chillis and passionfruit chefs-kiss

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Can't be great. Eating some Chunky brand soup rn for work, since my fridge died after buying groceries and I didn't have the time for my usual lazy rice and beans. The shit blows.

Anyway, isn't it crazy how these canned soups have lethal levels of sodium and still taste mid at best?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

The salt is for preservation, not taste.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

God I want some

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

He said "the shit blows" lol

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Never had it, but my expectations are always very low for big-brand food items labeled as "ghost pepper". If I don't have to pause halfway through eating it to gather myself, you shouldn't legally be able to call it that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Most likely banned in Norway for killing 500 school children for being too spicy compared to salt.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ah yes because "adding your favorite hot sauce" to soup is just too much effort

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

It's okay

Like, the heat is there, but it's not like a punishing heat, more like a moderate zip of spice

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I've had it!

It's bad!

Taste is very strong extract, no actual pepper flavor. That's on top of a pretty bland chicken noodle. It had some heat, nothing crazy but more than nothing, but without the flavor it just felt completely separate from the soup. Like you just did a shooter of Da Bomb and then ate some (very mid) soup back to back.

As an aside, I feel like Ghost Pepper is going pretty mainstream right now, and there's some great stuff out there. Melinda's Creamy Ghost Pepper Wing Sauce is amaaaaazing, I go through practically a bottle a week; pretty hot for normies but sooo much flavor that I got acclimatized very quickly and it's pretty much my baseline now. Great for sandwiches/wraps or mixing with other sauces to pump up the heat (I put a bunch in all my Cane's sauces these days).

As an aside to the aside, Tobasco is no pepper-head's favorite, but their Scorpion sauce is actually pretty dang good. Flavor is decent, heat is awesome; very sharp and electric, gives very much the ouchie. Great for soups and chilis.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Oh Melinda's has good hot sauce

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I'll stick with my basic bitch Serrano any day.

Fun fact, smoked Serrano powder goes amazing in just about anything. Not the spiciest, sure, but great flavor.