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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! π
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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Well done, dude. It is a fine and honorable story to tell, and let no one tell you otherwise!
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.
Iβm white and they said that to me once, but there was such an underlying tone of menace in βIndian hotβ that I knew they werenβt 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, Iβll do the online ordering because Iβm the one with the non-white name. Heβs convinced they tone down the spice levels when they see his name on the order.π
Iβm white British and went through this at a New Zealand Indian restaurant. After all the warnings, Indian spicy was barely even mid-level spicy. Iβm from Bradford and donβt 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
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'm white, my wife is Desi. She can't handle spicy food, and I thrive on it. We order each other's dishes.
I'm VERY white, and so is my tolerance of spicyness. I always have to ask if the food is actually spicy or Dutch-spicy, because if it's the former, I'll take the extra mild please.
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 jalapeΓ±o-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.
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.
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 was on a date with an Asian woman years ago, and she decided to order Chicken Fried Rice. I don't remember what I ordered, but it was something less stereotypically "white".
They gave me the fried rice, and a fork. We just laughed, traded dishes, and asked for another pair of chopsticks.
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 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 thatβs 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.
race-ish?
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 peopleβs 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.)
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 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!
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.
