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@Shimmering Spectacle
That might explain (partially) the popularity of tomatoes in Mexican cuisine. That, and tomatoes being native to Mexico and Central America, meaning that, much like peppers, they were really easy for Mayans and other indigenous cultures to cultivate them.

@Eragor14
other products like vinegar or tomato, can help negate it as much as milk

@Mr.Myoozik
Apparently there are a lot of people interested in exotic gastronomy here. Makes sense, since (IRL) the foreign food market in the US is the one that is growing at the fastest rate, with Mexican and Vietnamese cuisine becoming especially popular.

@Wheatley R.H.
Mildly lactose intolerant, lol. I would never pick a fight with anyone, much less the milkman.

Congrats Twi, this is the most attention one of your image macros has gotten, and it’s a debate about exotic cuisine XD

@Eragor14
Are you lactose intolerant or did you have a fight with the milkman?

@Eragor14
Since we are talking about chili peppers, you know that hot chocolate was served with chili peppers, it was a water-based drink.
the reason the name hot-pepper is that the Spaniards thought it was a kind of pepper, so they traveled back to Spain where they returned the chile milder in its heat, they returned it back to the new world and that chili is called “chile poblano”

it also depends on the gastronomy that was created between two worlds

@Eragor14
Nope since again I don’t have a knowledge about Indian food. And yeah, I know mayans and nahuas used chilli for a long time, in fact pretty much a lot of cultures did that around that time. They even used the cacao beans as coins in some places. The people from Castilla and Aragon certainly added some additional meat and veggies to mix up things even more.

Besides, it’ll be silly a mexican vs mexican to see which country has the spiciest food.

Okay, I want to know: are you two now competing to see which country has the spiciest foods or something? Because it certainly looks that way.

Also, in the case of the Mexican, he forgets that spicy food has been a staple there for centuries, long before the Spaniards arrived. The Mayans served chili peppers with a lot of their food types, and early cacao beverages served by the Mayan chieftains contained chilis. This likely evolved into what is now known as (at least here in the US) Mexican hot chocolate, a variety of hot chocolate that is much spicier than the normal varieties.

@Wheatley R.H.
When did I mention water? I know that doesn’t work with high capsicum foods, lol. But I wouldn’t drink milk, either. The lactose content just doesn’t work for me.

@Twi Clown
That’s nice 🙂

@Eragor14
Hi 👋🤗

Yeah it was mostly just discomfort 😕 not the best feeling but thankful none of my actual stomach lining got hurt or anything, it was really upset for a couple days 😞

Just been more careful with spicy food from now on! 😇☺️

@Wheatley R.H.
interesting point.

@Shimmering Spectacle
the india food have more species and is the reason that it is more spicy

@Shimmering Spectacle
To be fair I have little knowledge from Indian cuisine so I cannot make a comparisson there.

Gotta say, even our snacks and “sweets” have spice on it.

@Eragor14
no no water no, the Capsaicin dissolves in fats such as milk, in this case chocolate milk.

@Eragor14
Huh I see, yet to be fair, I’m more familiar with Mexican then Indian, mainly for the taste and all.

@☬ ᏝᏆᏁᏨᎾᏝᏁᏰᏒᎬᎳᏕᎿᎬᏒᎱᎯᏁ ☬
Glad to see you still alive, LBF. I am a bit surprised to see you in this thread.

Sorry to hear about that stomach reaction, though. That sounds absolutely dreadful.

As a person who has loved spicy food all her life but had a bad stomach reaction from eating too many overly spicy jalapeno poppers early in 2023, I can say I still like it but my like has gone down a bit. D: Now I can only eat spicy stuff to a certain point and even then, I may not always desire it as much :|

@Shimmering Spectacle
Very different. But both are spicy foods, just a different kind of spice.

@Background Pony #D3D0
Don’t eat Indian food, but I do consume a ton of hot sauce, lol.

@Wheatley R.H.
Yeah, I wouldn’t ever want to have the antidote on anything.

@Background Pony #D3D0
not to be a racist here, yet isn’t Mexican food different from Indian?

@Twi Clown
yeah but you destroy the antidote to get rid of the enchilado

@Twi Clown
I think some of those ‘countermeasures’ made their way up here to the US, lol. Lots of Mexican food found around these parts, heh.