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[humble minion]

I had a friend back in the day that said that ketchup was spicy.

I mean, that opinion did put 1950s American cuisine into focus.

Back when i was a teenager, we had some retired Irish relatives visit our place in Australia.

Mum made spaghetti with meat sauce. It had garlic in it. They literally couldn't finish it because it was too spicy.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Every social circle has a 'that guy' who treats their love of spicy food as a badge of honor, wants everyone to know how much they like spice, will get into spicy food eating competitions at the drop of a hat, etc.

I have a relatively high spice tolerance, but I don’t really brag about it. I’m also not a heat-seeker, trying to sample hotter and hotter peppers. I’m more about having food that is well seasoned, not spicy hot. If I don’t like something’s flavor, I say do and won’t eat it.

But every once in a while, I get called out, and defend my rep because it’s expected…and easier than most challengers think. Thankfully, that hasn’t happened in a decade+.

 

[MGibster]

The only thing that would get to sit through this again is as a RiffTrax, specifically featuring the Ikea Tiktok Guy

It's been a while, but wasn't Michael Douglas the bad guy in Falling Down? Robert Duvall was the good guy who was making an effort to stop him.

Aliens, is overrated.

This is an unpopular opinion. Aliens is a sweet action nougat covered in a delicious candy coating of science fiction-horror.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I had a friend back in the day that said that ketchup was spicy.

A friend of mine dumped her BF shortly after she invited him to a meal with her extended Sicilian-American family and he proclaimed the marinara to be “hot”. (Many eyes rolled in her direction.)

 

[dragoner]

To be fair, that's true for pretty much every war movie ever from Saving Private Ryan down. Casting directors want soldiers to look like hard-faced manly man grizzled veterans rather than pimply and often-terrified 19yos.

I don't think there is a time when someone doesn't feel the fear inside, though yeah, they look twelve marching off. Vonnegut called it the children's crusade cause that is how he saw it, and he couldn't write about it for 20 years afterwards.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

It's been a while, but wasn't Michael Douglas the bad guy in Falling Down? Robert Duvall was the good guy who was making an effort to stop him.

Yep.

 

[Autumnal]

"Spicy" as an adjective for food is near useless because of its breadth. Most people just mean "hot" and "spicey" goes well beyond that.

This is a very longstanding problem for me. I love many spices, though I deal with heat very badly. Set me down before a nice meal from Baja California or fixed the way Southern California’s Armenian immigrants usually do or most of what I can get at the TM-sponsored fairs at Indian holidays and on like that and I am likely to be a happy Bruce. It’s just that I can’t safely consume mega Scoville peppers and other stuff apparently grown on the elemental plane of fire.

 

[Thomas Shey]

To be fair, that's true for pretty much every war movie ever from Saving Private Ryan down. Casting directors want soldiers to look like hard-faced manly man grizzled veterans rather than pimply and often-terrified 19yos.

Well, except maybe WW2 movies. They were taking damn-all everybody this side of their 60's in that one.

 

[Reynard]

Yikes, I was going to say it holds up, but under no circumstances see the extended cut, with Newt's family, a kid on a Weyland-Yutani Big Wheel, and Paul Reiser and Sigourney Weaver giving Basil Exposition a run for his money. All of the scary stuff that was implicit in the theatrical cut is a lot lamer -- and features cringeworthy 1980s hair and costumes -- when spelled out in the cut scenes.

The only thing worth watching in the extended cut is the auto-gun sequence.

It's okay that you don't like good movies. Everyone is different.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Beetle Bailey sometimes complained that the spicy pepperoni on his pizza caused bad dreams. I think the American palate has changed significantly over the last sixty years.

No question.

I was an army brat, so we moved several times during my childhood. I can remember what was available in Chinese and Mexican restaurants in several states (and even in Europe) back in the 1970s, and compared to modern iterations, it was SPARSE. It wasn’t until the 1990s that I walked into a Mexican restaurant and saw seafood. Y’know, from Mexico, a country with two long coastlines and a Gulf band after it.

Same story with Indian cuisine. I’m just now seeing fish and shrimp dishes show up on the menus of a few Indian joints here and there.