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! 😭
One of my proudest moments as a white dude who likes spicy stuff was when a buddy and I were hanging out with some local guys while on a trip to Mexico. I was just chowing down on some super hot salsa and one of the Mexican guys gets real excited and starts calling me "the blond Mexican". I'm sure my wife is tired of that story, but I will continue to tell it to her for the rest of my days.
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Woah. If there's one thing that excites me more than foreigners speaking Spanish, it's people eating our food how it should be eaten. Well done! I hope you enjoyed yourself.
Well done, dude. It is a fine and honorable story to tell, and let no one tell you otherwise!
I’m white and they said that to me once, but there was such an underlying tone of menace in “Indian hot” that I knew they weren’t fucking around.
That is such a perfect way to describe how "Indian hot" is offered! No malice, of course, just an honest warning!
Sometimes when my boyfriend and I want a spicy cuisine, I’ll do the online ordering because I’m the one with the non-white name. He’s convinced they tone down the spice levels when they see his name on the order.😂
I’m white British and went through this at a New Zealand Indian restaurant. After all the warnings, Indian spicy was barely even mid-level spicy. I’m from Bradford and don’t need mollycoddling.
In my experience Indians and British Asians are not even that into spice heat as a whole.
My wife is West Indian and trying to convince restaurants she wants actually spicy food is a constant struggle
I'm white, my wife is Desi. She can't handle spicy food, and I thrive on it. We order each other's dishes.
A kebab place in town used to have their spicyness range from "Norwegian mild" to "immigrant spicy".
I once went from my regular order of "Norwegian spicy" up to "immigrant mild". Bad move for me, delicious kebab though.
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!"
You just gotta know whose palate it's balanced for. Taco bell is meant for white people. Their hottest sauce has a maybe jalapeño-level spice to it (and it tastes like shit). Go to any legit Thai or Indian place and their medium will destroy the hottest you can get at any tex-mex chain.
Is it racist to say Taco Bell is meant for white people?
Just a casual reminder that this guy is a Mexican, raised in Mexico City.
Looked it up (under "Early life" on Wikipedia). Born in Washington D.C. actually, but his father is of Mexican and Hungarian-Jewish descent and the family lived his first 7 years in Mexico.
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.
"How dare you! But yes."
I'm white and I want gravy
Racial profiling in food is just an attempt to deliver the customer what they want. It would be the most benign form.
I'm oldish and pasty white, I have a hell of a time getting Mexican places to make it proper hot.
That said, I do love me potatoes and 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
Everybody watch out, we got a badass over here.
They're not wrong, though. Even their Diablo sauce is only rated to around ~15,000 SHU (though some will argue that Fire sauce is hotter and thus Diablo is actually less than 1000, myself included).
Even if the rating is accurate, that means at the very most Taco Bell sauce is barely hotter than a jalapeño, which any hot sauce enthusiast will confirm is on the lower end of the Scoville scale.
The point I'm making is that they're not bragging, they're stating simple facts.
NGL, getting profiled as a tender tongue is pretty fucking annoying. The only thing worse than no spice is mild spice.
My go-to has been to tell the waiter, "If you make it so spicy I can't eat it, I'll double your tip." It's a dangerous game, but it often pays off.
Truth. The one time i went with pickup instead of delivery for indian food, i swear my food from then on was suddenly more mild. I really like the heat :/
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.
Just ask for chop sticks, I do all the time. They are just playing the odds.
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.
not in a way that’s likely to result in significant harm
Yeah, I wish there was a word for scenarios that are technically racist, be we don't want to devalue the word by invoking it for stuff that your privileged ass can easily live with. It'd make all the MAGA word game bullshit slightly harder for them to pull off.
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.
Years from now he will wake up while falling asleep, randomly remembering this awkward encounter
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.
I just say "come on man, look at me, of course it's gonna be mild."
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.
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