In mayo joybuster news: Denmark has forbidden the sale of "spicy" noodles for being too spicy

Oh I remember those noodles

Not gonna lie that broth even looks spicy

lmao perfect
- The hand in the second frame touching his tummy is

having sex with ur horse ✔️✔️
spicy noodle❌❌❌❌

I'm sorry what
- https://imgur.com/gallery/eu-countries-where-bestiality-is-legal-yZqtZWB
  idk if it's still legal anywhere in europe but it was in the 2010s

Nordic countries taking their crusade against flavor to the next level.

The worst thing is that plenty of Scandinavian food is fantastic. Its just been memed by nationalists to be "pork meat" (so we can exclude Muslims) and by Americans to be "fish, bread and mayo lol" because they have no understanding of culinary culture that isn't slapping the same spice rub on every single dish and calling it a day. I made an effort post on this on an old account.
But then they do this shit and it's just the most WASP thing you can do. Crusade against flavor + "won't somebody please think of the children?"
- What little Nordic food I've had has been pretty good so I have a decent opinion of it. On the other hand, I see Nordic people having consistently shit takes on food like "Korean fried chicken is too spicy, schnitzel is better" and I think that there's something deeply wrong with the people.
- it's just the most WASP thing you can do.
  WAJL (White Anglo-Jutic Lutheran) just isn't as catchy.

I remember making my first bowl of Buldak 2x at work and crying. My coworker came over to check on me and I managed to stutter out "these are tears of joy, I have found my new favorite ramen."

I love it so much. It does not love me back. That is okay.

I like to put an egg or vegan cream substitute in the broth, helps a lot and gives a nice taste
- if you're a disgusting heathen peanut butter is also good

They're not even that spicy. At this point I'm starting to suspect it's a gingers being immune to anesthetic or cilantro tasting like soap situation where we should stop making fun of them because it's an actual medical condition.

Being Western European is a medical disorder confirmed
They're pretty spicy?? Especially the 2x and 3x.
- never had the 3x. The 2x is pretty damn spicy for a normal person, but not that crazy relative to the sorts of things spice-heads are into for sure, and definitely edible.
Am white, can confirm, it's a condition.

Tbf I've meet an increasingly large number of non-kkkrackkker people who can't handle spicy food. I have a First Nations friend who gets the runs from Buffalo wings. Heck my partner is half Ecuadorian and my honkey ass can handle spice better than them.
I think some people just got sensitive stomaches
- Most of the Americas does not have spicy cuisine. Domestication of chilis was a Mesoamerican & Andean thing and even today they haven't spread to all cuisines in the hemisphere.
- My stomach has never been the issue with spicy food. The issue is when there's too much capsaicin, it is just agony in my mouth. It makes me fucking hiccup. And due to the physical properties of capsaicin if the food is too spicy every bite just makes it worse and the sensation takes forever to go away even while drinking milk.
  I really do not get why anybody seeks it out outside of some perverse "dudes rock" self flagellating thrill seeking. Things taste better when you use peppers that have flavor other than "ow"
- That might be COVID related if it's recent. One of the ways flavours changed for my sister after her second bout was spiciness becoming much spicier, to the point of pain at even a very small amount.
I have done this, at which point I swallow my pride and my tears and shovel what I can in my face, ask for a to-go box, and eat it at home with plenty of fat on hand to fight the capsaicin.

That sucks. These noodles are very tasty. Also the package openly advertises how extremely spicy they are so I am not sure if a ban was necessary.

Well according to one parent "all the other spicy foods aren't so spicy as to be dangerous, so it's wrong actually". Deeply embarrassing to admit that all the other spicy foods aren't spicy (if you think the regular spice packets are abnormally spicy, then I don't know what to say)

They literally tell you on the packet that if it is too spicy, you should use less of the spice powder. There's solutions that don't involve making flavour illegal.

not beating the "protestantism makes joy impossible" allegations

Death to America

It'll be another fifty years before Northern Europe is allowed to discover spices. Sad day

For some reason this made me envision like a culinary version of a Paradox game where, for once, Europe is "technologically" backwards
- Korea getting the bland food CB against Scandinavia and immediately declaring war
They conquered the world for spices and didn't use any of them.

I remember looking it up online and I believe the actual capsaicin levels were like 8000 for the regular but that there was just some funky chemistry that made them feel more spicy. Though I do feel like I might have made them spicier by forgoing making any broth and treating them more like an instant yakisoba.

I have a few theories on that. scoville doesn't directly measure capsaicin, it measures how many times diluted you need to make a concentrated extract of the pepper before the heat is undetectable in sugar-water. So how it applies to sauces is unclear to me. You could take the scoville rating of the underlying peppers, or you could directly dilute the sauce itself, or you could somehow make an extract of the sauce itself and test that.
So maybe that rating is misleading because of ambiguity in how its measured, or the sheer quantity of oily sauce, its not like a little dab of vinegar-based hot sauce, it sticks

How embarrassing

Very much so. ~~It's because a parent complained that their child ate one "with pink packaging" WHICH ISNT EVEN ONE OF THE SPICY ONES.~~ And now there's scores of parents applauding the initiative. I feel like a libertarian crying about a "nanny state".
Edit: no child ate one and got sick, see further down the thread for the even dumber story
- Did something happen to the kid? I don't understand what is happening here unironically
- their child ate one "with pink packaging"
  NOT THE CARBONARA

Buldak is so good! How could they!

It's not vegan though, it contains eggs. The chicken flavor is vegetarian though, at least.

Wait, really? I definitely buy them sometimes (not the pictured ones, the purple one, habanero ... something flavor?) and I know I checked ingredients. Did I really miss eggs? That seems unlikely, but I'll have to check carefully next time I see them.
- I believe the noodles have egg involved, but it seems to vary regionally.
- For everyone who is vegan who sees this (all 3 or so of you), it's fine! I have not accidentally eaten eggs, there are no eggs in the version that I can buy here, I'm attaching a photo of the ingredients for you to check for yourselves.
  @Aradina@lemmy.ml
  Editing to add: "Artificial flavor" is super sus, but I've long since decided not to care about that. If that makes me a bad vegan, so be it.

The 2x spicy ones are so much spicier than the "2x" would make you think, can't imagine the 3x spicy ones could possibly be any fun and I say that as someone who very regularly eats spicy food

The 3x one is instant pain on mouth contact hot, from someone who can eat 2x without issue.
Kinda tastes worse though, its fairly bitter.
- Now I feel better. All these comments on Buldak not being spicy and I'm like, "am I really that weak?"
Yeah the 3x one is wild. The packets resemble black tarry oil. I love the 2x one though

Growing up in a West Indian family that regularly used habanero peppers in the sauces and food we ate makes this the most alien thing I've ever read with my own two eyes.

Yeah it's wild to see the people saying this is a good thing. "Chilis just aren't suited for danish people!" I guess all the middle eastern people who emmigrated here can just get fucked then

Typical cracker shit.

X.com

Why musk you be like this?

Kamelåså

- Beklager, men noen måtte si det
  (Kall meg en "fjeldape" så er vi Even Steven)

Finally someone takes a stand against anti-mayo discrimination.

I will never understand people who enjoy really, really spicy food. Nothing above like 100k scoville should exist. If the spiciness is more than "i feel the warmth in my mouth for a few minutes" and you say you "like it" you're a flagellant weirdo

Sure, but I also struggle to understand people who purchase items that say "VERY SPICY" eat the items and experience that they are very spicy, finish the dish, get an upset tummy and then go "The government should make this illegal, I am at no fault here."
I would kind of understand making those artificial 100k ones illegal, but when you're also just going after the regular one? Wack. Like the 3x one is way too much for me, but I don't think it should be illegal to sell.
- Yeah that's dumb af
endorphins are a hell of a drug
but also none of these ramens are 100k scoville. (though people say their perceived spice level is higher than the scoville rating would suggest. maybe because its a large quantity of broth, or because its oily and coats the tongue?)
I definitely go back and forth, some stuff just causes straight pain and I don't like it, but some stuff is really tasty and I will push through to finish it, and then the endorphins after are pretty nice too. There's also some hot sauces that are like, on the edge of being too spicy to use normally but really great when mixed in to a dish. I had one that could give an entire batch of (shitty boxed) mac and cheese a nice, smoky, spicy flavor with like a teaspoon
- maybe because its a large quantity of broth, or because its oily and coats the tongue
  The broth looks spicy as fucking hell, that deep red, visibly oily
I feel called out.
- sorry you can call me a cracker though if it helps

Tyrannical

Literally eating buldak rn.

I love chillies, the only thing I don't like is the toilet afterwards lmao