I'm as white as snow but I'm still not white enough to eat this.

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• bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Sounds like a bell pepper with extra steps.

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  • Deconceptualist@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Different chili varieties definitely have their own flavors. Even blindfolded you’d probably be able to tell apart sauces made with poblanos vs banana peppers (both can have basically zero heat).

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• Woovie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  jalapeños are really good even without heat. It’s just a good pepper. I don’t see any issue.

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  • BastingChemina@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Similarly seasoning peppers are a staple of Caribbean cuisine. They look and taste almost identical to habaneros peppers minus the heat.

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  • SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Hotness aside, I actually prefer the taste of pretty much any pepper over jalapeños.

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• curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Unfortunately, I am. Too much capsaicin messes with digestion (slows it down), and causes more stomach acid.

  So with my gastrointestinal system’s hatred of my body (including food allergies which wreak havoc on me), I am at the top tier of too damn white to get to enjoy the heat anymore. So, I guess thanks for a new pepper I can check out!

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• B312@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  What’s the point of jalapeños if they’re not hot?

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  • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They actually have really great flavor underneath the heat. I did a beer infusion years ago with jalapeño and IPA that wasn’t spicy at all but had a delicious peppery taste.

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  • makyo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    In my experience the spicier jalapenos are also the tastier ones so I have a hard time imagining how this works.

    I mean, I also probably wouldn’t eat the spicy stuff if I didn’t love the flavor - I’m not suffering just for bragging rights! So I’d definitely be down for trying something like the coolapenos here, just would be going into it with some skepticism that it’s anything more than a mild pepper with the mild flavor they produce.

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    • theangryseal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I didn’t know I liked jalapenos until recently and someone brought me a burger with them.

      Holy shit I wish I could handle that heat regularly.

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• RBWells@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I have a story about heat and flavor. Often the flavor and heat ARE intertwined, if you “cool” the pepper you mute the flavor.

  So I make lentil salad sometimes, it’s one of those dishes so much better than it should be - cooked al dente lentils, jalapeno, onion, carrot in a dressing of olive oil, mustard, lemon. My little kids loved it but would whine that it was too spicy. So my older daughter graciously de-seeded and took out the ribs of the jalapenos when helping make it one time and

  They whined because it didn’t taste as good. The flavor was contained in the spicier part of the pepper.

  Not everything should be spicy but it’s good to have a tolerance because some flavors are in those spicy foods that simply aren’t in the mild versions.

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  • Deconceptualist@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Chilis have a natural variation in heat, which depends a lot on growing conditions. Jalapeños can range from ~2000 to 8000 scovilles. The hotter ones don’t taste different, they just have more capsaicin. That molecule itself has no flavor, it just triggers the heat receptors in your cells.

    Maybe your perception of the heat has gotten entangled with the flavor so cognitively one is less satisfying without the other. But that’s specific to your perception and not how it works at the chemical level of the plant or human sensory cells.

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• LesserAbe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yeah, people should only eat the things I like to eat

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I didn’t say anything about what people other than me can, should or would eat.

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    • LesserAbe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      No worries, just making a joke and not saying it’s a reflection on your character.

      When I see “I’m white but not white enough to eat this” I interpret that to be saying some people are unreasonable in their aversion to spice. What did you mean?

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• JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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• Lexam@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Good for you. Weird flex honestly “my stomach works” Well for many of us ours don’t work. If I eat anything that is spicy hot my stomach will have me bent over cramping constantly until it leaves my system. Is you next post going to be about how stupid people are for having to use wheelchairs?

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I never said other people shouldn’t eat it.

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    • Lexam@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      No just making fun of them.

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• altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I like the heat though.

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  • Deconceptualist@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    So buy the regular variety? They’re far easier to find.

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• lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’d consider growing those. Mostly to blend alongside some extremely hot pepper, as then I can control the heat properly.

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• lemmycdatass@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  White enough to post this though… 😎

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• Sam_Bass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  i love sweet red peppers. greens are too bitter though. jalapenos shouldnt be defired either. thats what makes them tolerable

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• lengau@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Why would you make jalepeños even worse?

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• paladin3494@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You’d find a lot of Scandinavians wanting this lmao

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