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I have to be in the mood to eat spicy food, though our dipping sauces (especially the ones we mix at home) are spicy by default.

I loooove wasabi, horseradish, mustard, gochujang, jalapeños (I eat them raw when I'm in the mood), curry (Thai-style red curry and Japanese-style curry are my favorites), and chili flakes (especially with pizza). I can't stand Tabasco sauce though.

My favorite spicy thing to eat is called Dynamite - a type of Filipino street food. It's basically a deep fried spring roll stuffed with a whole chili pepper (can be jalapeño or siling mahaba) and cheese, sometimes with ground beef or pork. Can be eaten on its own or in whatever dipping sauce you want.

Hey, technically everything from wasabi to mustard doesn't burn. It stings. (Which is what I love about it.)

But on the other hand - that doesn't matter all that much, because wasabi is ridiculously awesome and I love it to bits. (Funny story, that. I used to hate wasabi as a kid. Then at some point I just grew the ability to handle the stuff in my food and now my sushi dipping sauce just can't go without a huge helping.)

The terms you differentiate - burning and stinging - are actually aspects of the same characteristic: pungency (which is the technical term for anything 'spicy' or 'hot'). Physiologically speaking, the heat and stinging sensation you feel from eating chilies and wasabi, respectively, are the same. You just register it as different because the chemical that causes 'heat' (capsaicin) preferentially stimulates thermo- and chemoreceptors in the tongue and oral mucosa when ingested, whereas the chemicals that cause 'stinging' (isothiocyanates) preferentially stimulate the same kind of receptors in the nasal mucosa. It's also the reason why they sell chili patches as topical analgesics especially for neuropathic pain precisely because prolonged contact overstimulates pain receptors found on the skin, producing analgesia.

(I have a wasabi story: I had a friend growing up who was always fed wasabi by her mom whenever she had nasal congestion so she refuses to eat wasabi because she always considered it 'medicine'.)

[AYRT]

My bad. I have been duly Scienced. *takes in the science* *also didn't stay in a food science degree long enough to learn this stuff, dammit - much regret for lost opportunity to pick up absurd quantities of useful science trivia*

That said, I still like horseradish-type a hell of a lot more than chili-type because it doesn't stick around for several minutes and keep me from tasting anything other than OW, MY MOUTH. I do kind of want to try dynamites, though - they're super cheap at university, anyway.

(My dad's like that with porridge. The weird things that happen when one specific food just happens to be the family's go-to remedy for something... I mean, I never had that problem because I'm strange and even like the taste of cough syrup, but other than that.)

Try theeeemmmmm. They're SO GOOD.

(Urgh, cough syrup. I especially hate the cherry flavored ones. But I like the taste of unflavored oral rehydrating salts so who am I to judge?)

Well, I've tried similar stuff. Just not the classic lumpia-wrappered kind. So I'll get around to that sometime soon.

And that's how I know I'm nuts - when I say I actually like the taste of medicine, I mean cherry cough syrup particularly.

Rehydrating salts? What are those like? Salts in a medicinal context just makes me think of Alka-Seltzer, and... bleugh.

Oral rehydration salts are a cheap, but effective way of replacing fluids lost due to diarrhea. They come in sachets and you dissolve them in water and they taste salty-sweet. From the reactions I've seen of people trying to drink them, you'd think they were asked to lick Satan's asscrack, but I actually like the taste.

Salty-sweet sounds fine. I mean, it has sugar, how bad can it be?

On the other hand, salty-SALTY is evil. Gah. I still can't touch Alka-Seltzer that isn't flavored or the less-salty variant without wanting to throw up. It's like drinking seawater.

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