As a white girl, I like medium peppers and can occasionally enjoy a habeñero sauce but I’ll feel it. The thing is it’s just unremarkable, so I rarely say it. Most white people in my life like how spicy I cook things. That said my mom actually did think black pepper was too spicy.
I like stuff that’s hot but not to the point I can’t taste anything in the food other than hotness. It’s supposed to be a condiment not take over the whole meal.
I think that unless folks can handle wildly intense things like reaper sauce, most people’s favorite level of spice is just beneath their tolerance. Like they would rather have a spicy meal they can handle than a single crazy spicy bite. It just turns out that people have different tolerances. For some people, that ideal level for them is just a little black pepper. For many people though, black pepper is hardly noticeable, or at least forgettable.
That’s certainly the case with me. I use red pepper flakes a ton and Black pepper is noticeable but I wouldn’t consider it spicy or hot. As far as actual hot stuff (to me) habenero sauce seems to about my limit for what I would use and still consider good and I can eat jalapenos all day.
There’s a guy that comes out to our happy hours sometimes that always makes a big show of asking for the hottest wings they have and then after he starts on them asking the waiter if those are really the hottest (while red faced and sweating). It’s really annoying.
As a white girl, I like medium peppers and can occasionally enjoy a habeñero sauce but I’ll feel it. The thing is it’s just unremarkable, so I rarely say it. Most white people in my life like how spicy I cook things. That said my mom actually did think black pepper was too spicy.
I like stuff that’s hot but not to the point I can’t taste anything in the food other than hotness. It’s supposed to be a condiment not take over the whole meal.
I think that unless folks can handle wildly intense things like reaper sauce, most people’s favorite level of spice is just beneath their tolerance. Like they would rather have a spicy meal they can handle than a single crazy spicy bite. It just turns out that people have different tolerances. For some people, that ideal level for them is just a little black pepper. For many people though, black pepper is hardly noticeable, or at least forgettable.
That’s certainly the case with me. I use red pepper flakes a ton and Black pepper is noticeable but I wouldn’t consider it spicy or hot. As far as actual hot stuff (to me) habenero sauce seems to about my limit for what I would use and still consider good and I can eat jalapenos all day.
There’s a guy that comes out to our happy hours sometimes that always makes a big show of asking for the hottest wings they have and then after he starts on them asking the waiter if those are really the hottest (while red faced and sweating). It’s really annoying.