Seriously, it’s already impossible to get a decently spicy hot sauce at the grocery store.
Even the stuff covered in skulls or warnings or labeled “ghost pepper” are so diluted that they hardly count. Look, they’re hot, but ghost pepper in particular has become a buzzword, turning it nigh meaningless in determining how hot a sauce will be. Such a shame, too, as the ghost pepper has a delightful high intensity, low burn heat and sweet finish.
I’ve long argued that like volume on alcohol, food marketing itself as spicy should have to display it’s actual scoville rating on the packaging by law.
Unfortunately that’s significant element of that niche culture. Pushing your limit and proving just how spicy you can go is the point for most of them.
Gonna be real mad if this ends up making it harder to get hot stuff. Don’t push your limits folks, but don’t restrict others.
Do you buy your hot food in specifically TikTok friendly, coffin shaped packaging explicitly labed as a challenge?
Let’s hope they regulate greedy marketing not food sales.
Spicy challenge products have been sold like this since before TikTok was a thing.
Seriously, it’s already impossible to get a decently spicy hot sauce at the grocery store.
Even the stuff covered in skulls or warnings or labeled “ghost pepper” are so diluted that they hardly count. Look, they’re hot, but ghost pepper in particular has become a buzzword, turning it nigh meaningless in determining how hot a sauce will be. Such a shame, too, as the ghost pepper has a delightful high intensity, low burn heat and sweet finish.
Same thing happened to Sriracha 15 years ago.
Yeah it BLOWS! I make my own now, way better and cheaper.
Drop a recipe bruh
The inventor of the original sriracha sauce has widely published the recipe and granted permission to use it for commercial purposes.
I’ve long argued that like volume on alcohol, food marketing itself as spicy should have to display it’s actual scoville rating on the packaging by law.
Unfortunately that’s significant element of that niche culture. Pushing your limit and proving just how spicy you can go is the point for most of them.