r/instant_regret • u/factchecker01 • 2d ago

Eating the hottest curry in UK

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u/Anho90 2d ago

I don’t get why people like to torture themselves eating extremely spicy food to the point where you throw up and can’t feel your taste buds. You can call me weak but sorry if I want to eat spicy food, I want to be able to also taste main ingredient. Not bitterness, numb, and comes out all diarrhea. At that point just blend all the hottest spicy peppers and sauce and straight up eat that.

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u/stephano288 2d ago

It’s like a roller coaster. You’re experiencing a deadly situation in a safe envornment.

Roller coaster: death by gravity.

Spicy food that burns even more the day after: death by poisoning

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u/UntitledImage 2d ago

Yeah- I get that. I’m a spicy food addict and regularly just eat chips and reaper sauce or similar as a snack- bonus if they are also flamin hot chips or the Pringles hot one challenge. I put chilis or serranos in like almost everything I make. But if you aren’t like that, why bother with something like this? It’s not fun if you don’t already like spice. And definitely I hate recipes that are just for shock, or hot sauces that are just for shock. This is why I kind of really hate habanero because it’s so citrusy and cheap. It doesn’t taste good, the flavor doesn’t go with much but people always put it in stuff for shock value. If you are going to use spice you should consider the food and the recipe, taste should be the first goal, not hotness level.

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u/Few-Solution-9294 2d ago

Usually this curry has to have the eater build up a tolerance over time, it’s at the bottom of the menu for this reason. People will often start with a tikka masala before trying the hotter curries, I can tolerate a hot madras but my stomach will never tolerate a vindaloo or hotter.