The usual go-to nighttime drunken dish is pita or durum, served with a large bowl of chili on the side so you can slather it yourself. There’s a large middle eastern population here as well.

So is that who the chilis are for? I see this situation in germany and it’s not the white people going for chili, usually

Oh, so it’s an excuse to be racist

Makes sense

When you say Chili I can only think of the stew but I assume that’s not what you mean.

FOUND THE DANE!

What’s your favorite rotten fish paste to eat in a bog?

Priced to move… your colon to the toilet

I sweated through a t-shirt after eating the 2x spicy ones

I would have probably been hospitalized if I ate the 3x spicy

Yeah, I used to think I could handle pretty much anything in terms of spiciness, and those noodles kicked my ass

Calling it poisoning is a bit melodramatic though

I once got like 20 packets of the 3x one for about 6 dollars. I got really creative

One of my friends legit can’t handle black pepper, she says it’s just overwhelming

She also lacks a sense of smell, so it probably has something to do with that

I thought it wasn’t a real thing until at a recent family gathering when food talk came up and I found out one of my cousins apparently cant stand too much black pepper, her baby nieces have a higher tolerance for spice than her.

Plain bizarre to even conceive of.

Black pepper is spicy. However, I only realized this like 15 or so years into my life when I made a Norwegian dish that called for copious amounts of whole peppercorns. In 99.9% of meals, you’re not using enough to make it spicy.

I have a friend who considers Tomatoes spicy. YMMV on whether she has a mild allergy or something but y’know

I see you never met my mother-in-law

Interestingly piperine actually does have a sensation of heat similar to capcaisin, and it works on a different enough pathway that a capcaisin tolerance doesn’t impact it. It’s much, much milder, but it is there.

So with my level of capcaisin tolerance something like a habenero pepper is roughly as mild as a whole peppercorn, and I’ll toss a half dozen or so whole peppercorns into my ramen that’s also spiced with red pepper and then mixed with ghost pepper in the bowl, because the peppercorns provide their own little distinct bursts of bitterness and heat when one crunches on one, which stands out from the background warmth of the soup.

If you use fresh ground peppercorns, eventually you will get a larger spicy bit stuck in your teeth or otherwise notice it on your tongue.

I mean that one anecdotal guy may exist without contradicting your anecdotes.

for real. I thought it had to be a distortion. the wiki on danish cuisine is brutal though:

Historian Søren Mørch has characterized the Danish cuisine as a “garbage kitchen” of insipid, sweet and unspiced “baby food” where the tastes of milk and sweetness form the key elements. He believes that it arose because the export policy of the Danish food sector was to use the Danish home market as a “gutter” for left-over products, after high-quality bacon and butter had been sold abroad. Skimmed milk, meat scraps only suitable for chopping up, and the replacement product margarine are all products which Søren Mørch describes as residue products.

Smørrebrød isn’t just cold cuts on bread. It really is a whole dish and it is really quite good. It saddens me when people meme it to be “lmao bread lol”. I also think it’s sad that we don’t give baking the credit it deserves. Danish bread is fantastic, it’s some of the best in the world. Is it a hot meal? Kind of, you can put warm stuff on top, but no it is not a large stew. It’s supposed to be a really nice lunch, and lunch in Denmark is generally cold.

Like, the package shows you a chicken breathing fire on it

Yeah but in Nordic countries we put similar imagery on products that have a homeopathic amount of capsaicin in them

chicken breathing fire on it

Oh look it’s godzilla!

Yeah, I learned from these noodles that “cartoon character breathing fire” means they’re serious about the warnings.

I mean if this does end up being a “protect the children from social media dares” type panic then that’s just plain irrelevant to the people deciding this shit, cause it would just egg on whatever kids are buying it to try out the epic spicy tiktok ramen.

The stuff in Germany was one kid sent to the ER after eating one of these carolina reaper chips on a dare in school - you know, the ones where it’s just one chip in the entire coffin shaped box, that are intentionally marketed to people who want to brag about how much spice they can handle. The scoville on buldak aren’t anywhere in the same ballpark as that and honestly i think all of this is kinda ridiculous when there’s hot sauces where one drop too many can be enough to make an entire pot of chili too spicy for most people. Capsaicin is a thing that just exists in nature and in an untold number of preparations that are more powerful than a sauce package in instant ramen. I’m not familiar with buldak noodles myself because they aren’t vegan afaik, but a friend of mine said that the 3x ones “are tasty”. Granted, she once made a ramen place in our town run out of chili oil, but it was really weak chili oil.

The child marketing claim is why I assume this is about social media and tiktok shit, where the Food Admin can’t tell the difference between viral memes and company marketing.

The ER thing I have to imagine is just parents taking their kids there after finding out they puked and/or felt ill after eating spooky foreign food.

that’s clearly a Dutch accent and Danes sound like Dutch people, so it’s closer than whatever an American ideas of a Swedish accent would be

Rotten eggs is like a Chinese thing anyways, all this shit is just “our underrated offal vs their subhuman slop”