I was hoping for a savory flavor, I got a weird spicy flavor. I never had Indian food but I want to try it. Nevertheless, it is a good taste. For a split second I was mildly infuriated tho.

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    3 months ago

    Really off topic to the post. Masal Pringles sounds utterly disgusting, then again anything pringles is utterly disgusting.

    Of all the potato chips out Pringles are the worst.

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        3 months ago

        Ugg yeah and they taste like it too. They have the worst after taste.

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          3 months ago

          And they are really unhealthy but if you are buying junk food you aren’t really concerned with health. I like them. They have an acquired taste.

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      3 months ago

      This is a pretty unhinged take. I travel the world a lot and Pringles seem to be popular in almost every country. In China I really became a fan of the shaokao bbq ones.

      That said this looks delicious.

      The hot ones Verde Pringles are also amazing.

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        3 months ago

        You travel the world a lot and eat dogshit like pringles.

        Cool Story brah…

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          3 months ago

          Dude, one of the best parts of traveling is trying the snack foods from the rest of the globe and seeing how they are. Eating in general internationally is just a joy.

  • trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Masala just means mix, there are hundreds of Indian spice mixes, so this name tells you nothing. For spicy you generally want garam masala, i.e. hot mix.

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        3 months ago

        Also don’t assume that just because you are tolerant to one (Ex: Mexican, Thai, Korean, Indian, etc) means you are tolerant to the others. You most likely are not.

        People think they can handle it, then cry like babies when they’re truly tested; myself included. I can nearly drink Tapatio and Sriracha Cock Sauce, but Indian Guntur curries for example send me crying.

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            3 months ago

            Its the kind of bird on the label. I think it shows you the level of spiciness, with the cock being the most spicy one. But searching for those terms might show some masochist applying it to his cock, so yeah, just search for sriracha sauce and you will find it.

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            3 months ago

            It’s just a common nickname for Huy Fong branded sriracha hot sauce, which is one of, if not the, most succesful hot sauce(s) in the world.

            It’s nicknamed “cock sauce” because the brand icon is a rooster (aka. cock). The sauce is also called “rooster sauce” but that is less fun.

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          3 months ago

          So true. I love spicy food and like it hot, but whenever I go someplace new I step my normal order down a level until I learn their scale.

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    3 months ago

    Masala is fundamentally a blend of spices–though it doesn’t necessarily have to be “spicy” as in hot.

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      3 months ago

      Garam in garam masala is a bit more like warming hot. It’s meant to stoke the digestive fire. So it’s more the hot of ginger or black pepper. When something is hot like capsicum, you’d hear it was teekhu. Garam masala isn’t one recipe of course, but you start to see the same herbs and spices being considered.

      You can easily have a garam masala that has no capsicum in it.

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    3 months ago

    This story is secondhand.

    My brother’s first wife was Indian. As a result, he experienced many cuisines he wouldn’t have locally in the US. Apparently, she once took him to an Indian restaurant which offered a variety of spiciness levels; he, having been exposed to Indian cooking in the past, thought he could handle it. As such, he ordered the spiciest level of whatever he was eating.

    The owner of the restaurant apparently came out and tried to talk him out of it, but he insisted. They prepared the food as requested and he ate it. At the end of the meal, his eyes and nose were running. Per his telling, the owner came out after he had finished it to ask how he had liked the meal. He said that he liked it but that it had topped out his spice tolerance.

    According to him, the owner then responded “I thought so. That’s why I only gave you medium spice.”

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        I wish you could have heard it directly from him! He’s a much more talented storyteller than I. Regardless, it’s great that you enjoyed it!

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      The spiciness level in some places is really insane. My wife is Indian as well, but she doesn’t tolerate very spicy food. I handle it a bit better, but some of the stuff her brother eats would just leave me crying in pain, and again a day later.

      In restaurants when they ask which spiciness level we want my wife usually asks if they mean Indian spicy or if it has been adjusted to the country we’re in before making a decision.

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        I usually just take the minimum offered. I don’t mind a bit of spice but it’s never been the reason I enjoyed a dish.

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      Ive been experimenting with more indian vegetarian dishes as meat gets more expensive and lemme tell you even the imported spice mixes or sauce mixes at “mild” are like taking my life in my hands. Indian and indonesian people are on a whooooole other level of spice tolerance.

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    3 months ago

    I found out the same thing about butter chicken. Sounds great, don’t it? Chicken cooked in butter! Yummy!

    I honestly had no idea it was so spicy!

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      Butter Chicken typically isn’t spicey at all.

      But like all dish names what butter chicken is really depends on where you are getting it.

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      3 months ago

      Wait, your butter chicken was spicy?
      It is usually the least spicy dish on the menu.

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          Everybody starts somewhere! But typically butter chicken and chicken korma is like “white people” indian food (not a thing wrong with that it’s just the good standard babys first indian food plate to try, its a crowd pleaser and usually not as spicy)

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    Well… “Masala” just means something like “spice mix”. There is no one Masala. So… Which Masala is it, Pringles? Which one out of the hundreds did you decide to use to represent all the Masalas!?

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    3 months ago

    You know what, that’s fair and I’ll upvote you. I know you’re not trying to bash the flavor or anything, you just married your expectation and it simply wasn’t what you expected, I’ve been there.

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        3 months ago

        No. And not fond of artifical flavors on a dried potato mush.

        It’s a ok dried potato mush with salt & pepper though.

        • TheOrcWhoWrites@lemmy.worldOP
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          3 months ago

          Sometimes I eat these and not realize what I am really putting in my body. These comments are making me reconsider. They definitely don’t hold a candle to Tostones plantain chips.