# G&Ts

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/g-ts/192>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [August 17, 1999, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/g-ts/192 "1999-08-17T11:28:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![hdhaal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/839c29/32.png) [@hdhaal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hdhaal)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 1999, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/g-ts/192/21 "1999-09-07T18:36:00Z")

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Most american food is bland to me - when I go to a restaurant offering “spicy” food, I order it extra “hot” but end up with something I would rate as a 2 out of 5. Don’t get me started on the “Hot” sauce packets at Taco Bell. I don’t consider something hot until I start sweating and get a runny nose. Only place I have experienced that was over in Korea, and one other time my wife put five sliced Thai peppers in a bowl of Noodle Soup (they looked like carrot slices to me, big mistake!).

I always try and sample the “true” cuisine of any country I have been in, but I can’t comment on european food, as I have never been there. Personally, the raw octopus I had in Korea (the tentacles were still sqirming on the plate) was about as far as I am gonna go…

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