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What are your hot takes on food culture?
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Spicy food challenges are doing everything to ruin spicy food for everyone. They focus entirely on heat, not flavor.
If you want a spicy hot challenge and only care about the heat, there's pepper spray.
But super spicy hot foods should be intentionally made to also taste great. The challenge he should be the allure of the spicy food conflicting with the pain it puts you in. If you're gonna struggle with the heat, you should be equally tempted by the taste.
Da Bomb, for example, is a fucking abomination and shouldn't ever have stayed in business, nor be promoted by Hot Ones.
For some of us who like spice, it can be tough to get that across. “No heat challenge, but spice it like it should be. Spice it as if I weren’t white”