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12555817 No.12555817 [Reply] [Original]

If fast food restaurants are forced to have arbitrary calorie counts, they should also be forced to have spice ratings from 1 to 10. Having extra calories never hurt anyone, but eating food that's too spicy for you can make you choke or throw up or go to the hospital or even die. I think it's important that we demand fast food restaurants start including accurate and readable heat levels on all of their food. My friend's older brother back in middle school went to the hospital with a bad sickness after choking on some Taco Bell volcano sauce, he suffocated and almost died.

Heat levels can be objective and I think restaurants should be required to use this scale:

1 - No heat, basically ketchup
2 - Tiny heat, honey mustard
3 - A bit of heat, non-honey mustard or onions
4 - A good amount of heat, mild salsa or Taco Bell Mild Sauce
5 - Medium amount of heat, Slim Jim
6 - A bit too much heat, Taco Bell Medium Sauce
7 - A lot of heat, Taco Bell Hot Sauce
8 - Too much heat, Tapatio or Taco Bell Fire Sauce
9 - Way too much heat, Taco Bell Diablo Sauce
10 - You're a freak if you eat this, Taco Bell Volcano Sauce or real jalapenos

>> No.12555822

Sounds real white in here.

>> No.12555824

>>12555817
Spiciness is subjective. Calorie count isn't. Go ahead and delete this thread its over. Shut it down.

>> No.12555831

>>12555824
>Spiciness is subjective.
There's scoville ratings.

>> No.12555836

I'm gonna starts imagining every thread posted on 4chan as the start of a standup special. I think that will numb the pain a bit.

>> No.12555839

>>12555831
True but from person to person what one can handle is different. People already have trouble grasping the simple calorie. Now you want them to understand scovilles? It's easier to just say on the menu "white people need to apply for this dish" or something like that.

>> No.12555848

>>12555817
You fucking pussy.

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>>12555817
>Having extra calories never hurt anyone

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12555870

>people replying seriously to this

>> No.12555879

>>12555870
I don't think many people on /ck/ are serious. It's like, people ironically posting and others ironically responding. Honestly /ck/ has become kinda tiring due to that.

>> No.12555888

>>12555839
>True but from person to person what one can handle is different.
This works for calories too, you have to know how much you can/should eat.

I know OP is putting the scale for a bitch move, but I would love this to make sure I don't get some limp dicked "spicy" shit. I hate when I order something that has a flame next to it and "FIRE = SPICY!" on the bottom and it feels like a 1 on OP's scale. With this, I could say "Where are the 9s and 10s?" and know that I'm getting what I'm getting.

>> No.12555903

>>12555817
>onions have heat
Just stop. If you can't handle spicy foods then just avoid them instead of try and ruin shit for everyone else. Restaurants advertise food as "fire" or "mega scorpion death" but it's always bullshit and you could get more heat out of black pepper.

>> No.12555913

>>12555817
no one is this much of a pussy when it comes to spicy food... right?

>> No.12555975

Scoville works fine for most people.

>> No.12555985

>>12555839
Calories are more complicated than Scovilles. Scovilles would be like a shoe size, you experiment a bit and figure out your preferred number and that's what you go for.