One time I went to an Indian restaurant with my boss (from south India) and a Mexican coworker. I ordered my food mild, my boss ordered his medium, and the Mexican guy ordered his hot. My boss tried to warn him but he insisted that he could handle spicy food.
The food came out, the Mexican guy had no problem eating his, and he started gloating. Then my boss told him that he was actually eating my boss’s medium food. After they switched plates, the Mexican guy turned red, started sweating, and had to ask my boss to switch back.
(My boss had no problem eating the hot food; he just preferred the taste of medium.)
I took a mate out to an Indian place I regularly eat at and we had a few pints before. When I ordered the “devil potatoes” they warned me as they always do about the spice, I drunkenly bantered with the waiter that I’ve had them before and can hack it, then jokingly added “in fact make them extra spicy”. Anyway, they did cook them extra hot, probably thinking he could embarrass the cocky British bloke. I wolfed them down no problem, my mate had one and I just watched his face go red and start coughing. Felt so bad.
Yeah too much spice kills the flavour. You should be using spices to enhance the flavour, not smother it.
My brother is half white half Mexican and I am pretty much full white.
He decided to order his as hot as mine even though we all warned him not to.
His food tasted pretty good at about 3:30 the next morning
