vindaloo wrote:
Spicy food in general has become something of an addiction for me in the last ten years. I have a decent capacity for chillies these days and I enjoy Indian, Thai and Middle Eastern food in particular.
I have a huge tolerance for spicy (hot) food, and I like eating it a lot. A place where I get chinese food nearby created a dish based off of a special order I used to get all the time, where I would ask them to make it extremely spicy (to quote myself, "so spicy it makes your cook have to wear a mask and goggles") - they called it the 911.
I love spicy food to be extremely spicy - anything that others label as "hot", even "very hot" I usually find quite underwhelming with the heat. Even if I ask for things "extra spicy" it always comes to me too weak; that's why I always ask in an extremely exaggerated and unusual way, like saying "extra" 14 times. I like the heat for the rush that hot food gives me, when it's spicy enough.