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When ordering at the local Indian restaurant (Indian? They're all Bangladeshi. ...Anyway~), it helps to say "Bangladeshi strength", to prevent them serving the bland stuff.

At a Indian restaurant, the waiter said, "We have regular and spicy... And Indian spicy." Then he goes, "I usually don't offer Indian spicy to everybody". I'm brown, and I was given special treatment. But honestly I think I broke his heart when I asked for regular because he thought I could hang.

Sorry man! 😭

I moved recently and tried a Thai place down the street. The guy asked if I wanted mild, medium, or spicy, and I said spicy. He said :No, I think mild." I didn't know what to say and he added "...but you can have it however you want." I decided to try medium.

He came by after and asked how the spiciness was, and I said it was just a little spicier than I like it (I ate it without issue), and he said "I told you!"

A guy I work with once went with his two black friends to their local chip shop, owned by a big Jamaican guy.

He was the only white person in there, and when he placed his order, the owner went "Dja want gravy wit dat? White people always want graavyy".

He did want gravy.

I'm a white man, I enjoy very spicy food. My partner is a southeastern Asian woman, who enjoys a bit less spicy food. I find it easier if we just order for each other and swap plates when the food comes. Because the servers assume that I can't handle spice, and my partner can. Which is incorrect. Also, my partner isn't very happy about it.

It's taco bell, it's all mild sauce

NGL, getting profiled as a tender tongue is pretty fucking annoying. The only thing worse than no spice is mild spice.

This is mild racism.

I once went to a Chinese restaurant and when food arrived they also gave me a fork, when I looked around all the Asian customers were given chopsticks.

I'mma go with "yes", it's racist. But like, such a mild (pun intended) form of racism that the only appropriate response is a polite chuckle and shrug.

I feel like the stereotype has trended binary recently: white dudes are either the "black pepper is too spicy" type, or they're the chili heads who mainline reapers

I mean yes, but not in a way that's likely to result in significant harm, even in the long term. It's the kind of thing that being white myself (and having IBS on top), I would feel comfortable laughing at.

That podcast is hilarious for all the wrong reasons. They are not only race reductionists but they basically boil everything down to individual attitudes and beliefs.

One of the most egregious ones was when they told people not to practice speaking people’s native languages with them and to hire a tutor! Dumbest fucking people, they are equally as smart as MAGA.

It always made my smile that on every coffee shop they assumed my girlfriend was drinking latte and I read drinking black Turkish coffee, when it was the other way around.

It was a bit embarrassing at the beginning, but then I remembered I was a college student and she was in the army, so any attempt of being the strong one in the relationship was already out the window

So, I went into Chipotle the other day, and approached the young black dude who was taking the order, and asked for a bowl. Then he asked which rice, and said "Let me guess: White?"

I don't know if he was being racist or what, but I've got a thick (white) skin, and can see the humor in anything, so I was laughing when I said "What the fuck is THAT supposed to mean?...but, yeah, I want white rice, but still, what the fuck, dude?"

He got really nervous at that point, thinking he offended me, and of course I took advantage and guilted him into extra steak and guac.

My old manager used to take his team out to a Szechuan Chinese place and order for us, family style. It was awesome.

I'm white AF and it was the first time I had actually spicy Chinese food. He'd also order a few mild dishes for the pair of no-spice folk on the team.

Thinking back, manager was a Chinese immigrant, most team mates were Indian immigrants, and the spice-free teammates were both white. (I mention immigrant because my Indian teammates with kids would complain about their American-born kids' low spice tolerance.)

I am so white I reflect the sun at people... I had to beg the server to give me the actual hot. The server made a point to apologize when I asked if there was a way to make it hotter... spice is life!

Reminds me of a date with an Asian X, to a Chinese restaurant. We get seated, waitress comes by with chopsticks for my date, knife and fork for me. I shrugged, but my X went and got chopsticks from the waiting station for me cause she was pissed off at the blatant racism. I admit if the races were swapped, it'd likely get branded something like a 'micro-aggression' of racism I guess? idk.

But there are quite a few places where white folks get that sorta thing, its almost always quite benign.

I like that cultures that make spicy food, usually have a "mild" for their fellow countrymen, and a special "mild" for white people.

The white person mild.

I think that's hilarious.

For the record, I'm white and I appreciate having white person mild as an option.

The shibboleth for getting really spicy food at a Thai placed is to order it "phed phed". Phed means spicy and in Thai you can repeat some adjectives for emphasis.

This works equally well in Touristy places in Thailand as in Thai run restaurants back home (Switzerland) in my experience.

I just say "come on man, look at me, of course it's gonna be mild."