Also as you get older and your nervous system degrades things are perceived as being bland. So add spicy because people will frequently choose pain over boredom.
this post was submitted on 09 May 2025
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This worked until my kids developed a tolerance for heat. They are adapting! It's only a matter of time before they are completely resistant!
Lol, same. Used to napalm my food to deter them eating my food, now they prefer habanero salsa/sauces. They can drink the sauces at restaurants, drown Mexican food in it. I was proud at first, now scared of what I have created.
They ARE evolving. My kid was born with a taste for spicy food. When he was about one he used to try to swig the spicy mayo bottle. When he was two he was doing the "more" gesture for more Sriracha on his burrito meat. He's three now and regularly eats off his Dad's plate when he has food that makes my nose run and eyes tear up. He will probably be snorting Pepper X by his teens.
That's when you stop adding hot sauce to your food, and hide the sauce instead. They'll be like "where's the hot sauce", at which point you'll reveal you added it to their food already
"Clever girl"
My partner is a supertaster. They can't even be in the house when I open a jar of jerk seasoning.
Since I can't cook spicy dishes any more (I split dinners with my partner), hot sauce has become a craving.
You should look into flatiron pepper company pepper flakes. They make a ton of different blends at different levels of heat that are also really flavorful. It lets you bring the heat to your own food without having to use some kind of sauce. Plus, they are a great company. They send extra free shit every time I have ordered from them (3 or more times at this point?)
I like hot sauce too, but more situationally than every time I eat
I don't get it. Hot sauce just makes things more delicious
The sad part is the tolerance you build to it. I love Thai food and one summer we spent a lot of time in the city and went to the same Thai restaurant in downtown Toronto for about three or four months over several visits to the city.
I loved their authentic curry Pad Thai and I always ordered it with a bit of their homemade chili garlic hot sauce. As the visits progressed, I kept wanting more and more chili garlic sauce. By the end of the summer, I was eating two small bowls of the stuff with every order ... just for myself! The restaurant people weren't happy and they started diluting the stuff to discourage me but I just kept wanting more like some sort of street drug addict ... I even offered to pay more for it all like some crack addict craving the stuff.
I had to stop by the end of the summer when my stomach and gastronomic system gave up and I started developing bad indigestion and stomach problems and acid reflux :(
I have a friend that gets Thai food so spicy that they turn red and start sweating when they eat it. I tried a bite and began hiccuping immediately and couldn't handle it.
That's exactly how I order it!
Heat level: "fire-extinguisher hot".
If my forehead doesn't sweat then it's not spicy enough lol
I get the hottest Indian food I can when I go out lol I've gotten so used to it that even the hottest stuff they have doesn't seem that spicy to me anymore! I've started making my own dishes at home now with habaneros and I love it! I just made a post in another community with my new batch of pickled habaneros that I've been putting on everything lol
Oh geez. I have a jar of dried ghost peppers and Carolina reapers.
The ghost taste better, not AS spicy as the reapers. But they burn much longer. Reapers
Back when I was in highschool I brought home chili from work which I had added a lot of Cholula to as I liked. I set it on the dining room table sealed in the container while I went to my room to change. In the midst of changing I hear a yell from the other end of the house. It's my mother screaming "Are you trying to kill me?!?!" Neither of my parents tolerate spicy foods well. It's still a story I love to tell and to needle my mom with.
Cholula tastes great, but it's barely even hot.
That's why I add a lot. And again, she has no tolerance for spicy anything.
It was the inverse in my house, oldest daughter and I are chiliheads, ex was not, though he was ok with mildly spicy stuff, not oversensitive. So daughter and I go out for Thai food because if it's just us we can get it so spicy. We bring some home and warn the dad don't eat it, it's spicy . He gets stoned and forgets, eats it and was literally traumatized; would not touch anything spicy for a couple of years.
And I’m over here taking acid tabs and Da Bomb Beyond Insanity dabs like 🤔
Barbeque sauce? ✋
Barbwire sauce! 👈
Growing up was the other way around. My dad knew I was repulsed by seafood so he'd get a seafood dish then steal from my dish. The field was evened when I learned he couldn't handle spice
That's why I would always get anchovies on my pizza in college.
I'm sad I became allergic to fish in my mid 20s.
A fork to the hand works as well.
My wife uses Dave's Insanity Sauce so I don't think that would work on her.
Then you are the "lesser being"!
Indeed I am!
my dad's and grampa's idea of 'hot sauce' was ketchup.