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Lemmings who enjoy eating buldak original or hotter noodles. Do you feel nothing when you eat hot buffalo wings? Do you just drown food in hot sauce on a regular basis? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I saw some buldak cheese version on sale so I got some and after 5 bites I've sweat the equivalent to half an olympic sized pool and starting to see aliens. Is there something genetically different with people who enjoy this?

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[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I only started eating spicy food regularly maybe 10 years ago (starting with spicy noodles, actually), and at first it was a harrowing experience. Now, I'm much more tolerant to it and things that were at first inedible don't taste particularly hot at all anymore. My wife got me a variety of dried chili flakes for Christmas which include Trinidad scorpion and Carolina reaper and they're certainly hot, but tolerable. I think they'd have about killed me 5-10 years ago.

We have a local wings place that has a wing sauce they simply call 'Diablo', and every time I order it I'm sitting here crying while I eat them thinking, "Why do I keep doing this to myself?", but after they're gone I just want more. It's weirdly addictive.