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    Spicy food, hot peppers etc
    Never understood how its supposed to make the food tastier

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    • Clearly three quarters of the world has it wrong whilst you're knee-deep in Rømmegrøt.Nairn
    • Not because of the taste
      https://socialscienc…      drgs
    • In our part of the world people only pretend to like itdrgs
    • I'm never going for dinner at yours LOLnecromation
    • You wouldn't go for dinner at my place for other reasons, but by spicy I mean hot (capsaicin), which does not add anything to either taste or aromadrgs
    • Only makes your heat sensors burn. I do enjoy the occasional horse radish or mustard, spices with a bite to the olfactory, not heatdrgs
    • Chillies have flavour, you know! I can't stand really hot food—i don't see the point in a chemically-burnt tongue, but I love a bit of heat on most of my food.Nairn
    • Asian countries were adding pepper-based heat to their food waaay before chillies from South America appeared on the sceneNairn
    • https://www.science.…Nairn
    • It may well be a culture partly-borne of hiding past-best meat, but that doesn't explain its use in vegetarian or fresh fish meals. *shrug*Nairn
    • Also, herb spices were originally used to mask the taste of bad meat in the middle ages. It has become a part of our food culture, but in 90% of the cases herbsdrgs
    • drown out the taste of meat completely. I despise the use of rosemary in the Italian cuisinedrgs
    • That's not really true. Spices HAVE been used for that, especially in Medieval Europe, but we've been flavouring food to make it taste better forever.Nairn
    • You're like my friend who rages against the use of Parsley as "It dusn't taste of nuffink, *grouch*" whereas I can't get enough of that shit.Nairn
    • I'm with you on excess of rosemary though, although I don't see that as a particularly Italian problem. It's a herb that's very easy to overdo.Nairn
    • I like dilldrgs
    • Of course, because you're a Scandi.
      I've actually only very recently developed a love for Dill - a friend made a simple salad with it recently and I was in awe      Nairn
    • People who put rosemary on an otherwise perfectly decent steak should be taken out back and shot, imho. I appreciate this is a bit of an extremist position.Nairn
    • I've just realised - of course - Dill Salad friend is Swedish, lolNairn
    • I'd accuse garlic more of covering over the flavour and reducing the impact of old meat, over chillies.Nairn
    • lol, -7. Peeps be real protective of they heatNairn
    • This isn't discord. shut up, nairn.Nairn
    • I had an idea for a cooking show where all contestants are given a minimal set of ingredients (identical chunks of meat and a little bit of salt)drgs
    • And they compete in bringing out the best flavor,
      Not seasoning/combining different aromas      drgs
    • *slapNairn
    • I'm not saying that zero spices is better. For amateur cooks seasoning is primary (and they use a lot of it), and the main ingredient is secondarydrgs
    • Shots firedNairn
    • It's more than just flavor, the heart rate goes up & stimulates different parts of the brain, shit is healthy yoYakuZoku
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