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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.

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

This is mild racism.

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'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.

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.

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

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

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

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 get a lot of 'are you sure?' When I ask for hot sauce

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.

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.

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.

Not spice but caffeine. Stopped at a reservation gas station on a road trip to grab water and fuel. I walk in and the lady at the counter says that the sodas are on the far wall, I ask why she thinks I want soda and she says it's cause I'm white but definitely not any type of Mormon since I don't hold myself like them. Anyways I grab my water and fuel after that rather amusing interaction, then I go to my car and make another thing of gamersupps. She was simply wrong about my source of caffeine.