• UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 months ago

    I would so use that in their next marketing campaign. The slogan writes itself!

    “Outlawed in [Denmark|in some countries] for being too spicy!”

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    5 months ago

    I’ve had this stuff before. It’s comparable in spice level to what you’d get from a good Indian or Thai restaurant if the staff actually believe you when you say you want extra-spicy.

    The sauce packet itself contains “decolorized chili extract”, which is better known as oleoresin capsicum in some non-food products. Eating the sauce without mixing it into the soup as intended would be unpleasant for almost anyone, but only dangerous to people with allergies or certain pre-existing life-threatening health conditions.

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      5 months ago

      Man I ordered a pack of curry ramen from these guys cause I was craving curry and needed to hit a cart minimum for a discount and was like sure why not. The not reasoning was the fire from both ends. It took my stomach a couple days to recover because I just scarfed it down despite the pain

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      5 months ago

      I bought 3 packs hopefully it’s like the other recalled or banned stuff and actually good spice.

  • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Having had all 3 of those before, they’re definitely not “tasty spicy” or “fun spicy” any more, but unless you drink them on an empty stomach and try to wash them down with beer only, they were perfectly fine.

    Always got some of the 2x spicy here for when I have a cold, best way to clear your nose. 🙈

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      I like the spicy (black packet) and 2x spicy (red packet), it definitely has flavour to me! The 3x is closer to painful spicy though. Tongue’s are just different.

      Also I would not recommend any of these to people with geographic tongues. They will hurt no matter what level you get.

    • Ibuthyr@discuss.tchncs.de
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      5 months ago

      Don’t worry bruv, we got plenty of Buldak over here in Flensburg. We also have cheap beer. Flensburg’s entire economy is propped up on Danske penge, so please come over.

  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Buldak don’t fuck around with heat. I’ve had the 2x, and a pretty decent tolerance to spiciness, and it was hotter than my comfort zone.

    To an extent, heat boosts flavor; but passed that, it’s just heat for the sake of heat.

    …not that that justifies a recall, but they ARE hot as fuck.

  • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    Though funny, overly spicy food has killed people. There’s a difference between adding spice to your product and just dumping in a bottle of pepper spray. Spice is like caffeine. There really should be a limit to how much can be loaded into a product before it needs a genuine warning label.

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      Let me start off by saying I do not disagree. Even without death it can cause nasty stomach pains (not ulcers, though, that myth was dispelled) and cause severe irritation on the way out. In addition, a LOT of folks have undiagnosed conditions. I’m just adding perspective. I see no issue with adding a warning to products seasoned with peppers in the 800k+ range the same way you’d add one for a roller coaster because it absolutely can kill you if you have a medical condition and I’m not so sure that people realize that.

      For spicy food to kill an average healthy person, you’d have to consume a few pounds of super hot peppers to get that sweet infarction. Ghost peppers come in around 1,000,000 scoville units and the one chip challenge is seasoned with vipers and reapers which come in under 2m (there’s no official scoville rating that I could find on the chip itself). Some of the nastier sauces (Pure Evil and Plutonium No. 9) come in between 10m and 13m and those are eaten by heat aficionados and idiots looking to prove something with no more ill effects than shitting yourself inside out and pouring milk on your brown eye to relieve the burning.

      The story about that kid is absolutely tragic. He was 14 with cardiomegaly and myocardial bridging of the left anterior descending coronary artery (enlarged heart and a congenital defect). I don’t know if he was previously diagnosed (that’s a whole discussion about our healthcare system in the US) but eating a chip like that at 14 with other conditions is a health decision. He didn’t know the risks because there was no health warning and possibly he didn’t know about his condition.

  • Grass@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    filthy casuals…

    Anyway korean homestay students used to stock up on these and leave them behind when they went home. it’s a pretty decent instant noodle, fairly recommended

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    I’m not sure I trust Denmark judgement on spicy measurement. Picked up a bottle of red pepper seasoning that was marked extra spicy in Thyboron and we laughed our asses off how bland it was.

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      5 months ago

      Well, some food in Denmark is randomly spicy, kebabs are with chili by default, so there’s a good exposure to hot stuff. I upped my spicy game here. A few months ago I understood that jalapeno has a taste!

  • the_doktor@lemmy.zip
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    5 months ago

    In Korea, this particular product is advertised as “mild spice for very young children.” /s

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    5 months ago

    I’ve had the 2× spicy. Honnestly the reason they should be recalled is for their quantity of salt. My mouth was burning more because of that than the spiciness.

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    5 months ago

    Not my regular driver when it comes to noodles but I do like those on occasion. Clears the sinuses and sometimes the bowels.