# Spiciest Offering From a Fast Food Chain **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 28, 2015, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiciest-offering-from-a-fast-food-chain/718756 "2015-04-28T22:49:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![troub](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troub/32/14802_2.png) [@troub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/troub)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiciest-offering-from-a-fast-food-chain/718756/41 "2016-05-19T20:16:08Z")
> [@SykoSkotty](#): > > White Castle’s now has Ghost Pepper Sliders. Apparently mine doesn’t have these ☹ My wife was out of town, so I got to go there for lunch yesterday 😛 . They had several new cheese offerings and a “cheesy 10-sack” thing, so I got a sack of 10 mixed “french onion,” “garlic,” and “jalapeno” (the only spicy offering). The jalapeno wasn’t spicy, and as for the others…tasty enough, but yeah; bodily functions have been…interesting. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiciest-offering-from-a-fast-food-chain/718756/42 "2016-05-19T20:21:56Z")
> [@troub](#): > > Apparently mine doesn’t have these ☹ My wife was out of town, so I got to go there for lunch yesterday 😛 . They had several new cheese offerings and a “cheesy 10-sack” thing, so I got a sack of 10 mixed “french onion,” “garlic,” and “jalapeno” (the only spicy offering). The jalapeno wasn’t spicy, and as for the others…tasty enough, but yeah; bodily functions have been…interesting. I had those, but every White Castle seems to have run out of them with a week or two, even though they all still have the signs up. Definitely a tad hotter than their jalapeno offering, but doesn’t taste as good. Nothing too crazy heatwise, though. I still think the Taco Bell ghost pepper wrap thing they had was the spiciest of the ghost pepper marketing bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiciest-offering-from-a-fast-food-chain/718756/43 "2016-05-19T20:24:21Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Well, if you’re considering Chipotle fast food, I’d think you’d have to consider Five Guys fast food. I personally think of both as fast food, although, technically, I guess they’re “fast casual.” They’re fast food. If you’re ordering at a counter, filling a paper drink cup from a machine, and transporting your own order from the counter, you’re eating fast food. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiciest-offering-from-a-fast-food-chain/718756/44 "2016-05-19T20:26:07Z")
> [@Peremensoe](#): > > They’re fast food. If you’re ordering at a counter, filling a paper drink cup from a machine, and transporting your own order from the counter, you’re eating fast food. I happen to agree, but tell that to the folks who are making a marketing distinction between “fast food” and “fast casual.” ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiciest-offering-from-a-fast-food-chain/718756/45 "2016-05-19T20:29:48Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > I happen to agree, but tell that to the folks who are making a marketing distinction between “fast food” and “fast casual.” That’s the whole distinction, right there. Marketing. > [@Chronos](#): > > Chipotle’s isn’t fast food, it’s short order. The distinction is that, even in busy times, they don’t start preparing your order until you order it. From what I’ve seen, the ingredients are all prepared before you walk in; they just assemble it to order. Just like McDonald’s. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiciest-offering-from-a-fast-food-chain/718756/46 "2016-05-19T20:33:10Z")
I love spicy food, and I thought the ghost pepper fries were quite spicy. I had them for the first time last week. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2016, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiciest-offering-from-a-fast-food-chain/718756/47 "2016-05-20T11:40:13Z")
> [@SirRay](#): > > How fortunate for the timing of this thread: > > [Taco Bell Diablo: Irvine chain to debut first new hot sauce in five years](http://www.ocregister.com/articles/taco-659716-bell-diablo.html) The Diablo sauce just reappeared at the Taco Bell closest to my workplace. It’s respectably spicy, but has a really odd aftertaste. ---
**Author:** ![JustinC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justinc/32/8083_2.png) [@JustinC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustinC)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2016, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiciest-offering-from-a-fast-food-chain/718756/48 "2016-05-20T16:23:08Z")
I don’t know if it counts as fast food, but New Zealand’s [Hell Pizza](https://hellpizza.com/nz/order/) does some seriously hot pizzas, the hottest of which is the [Flaming Dragon](http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/food-wine/food-news/69634965/Hell-Pizza-Flaming-Dragon-Meet-New-Zealands-hottest-pizza). I managed to finish the third hottest pizza but it wasn’t an enjoyable burn, more like one which made you cry and gave you a stomach ache. For reference, I douse meals in Nando’s Extra Extra Hot Peri Peri sauce and it’s a very, very pleasant burn. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2016, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiciest-offering-from-a-fast-food-chain/718756/49 "2016-05-20T17:49:39Z")
> [@solost](#): > > The Diablo sauce just reappeared at the Taco Bell closest to my workplace. It’s respectably spicy, but has a really odd aftertaste. I wonder if it has extract or some ghost pepper or whatnot in it. (I haven’t had it yet, and all I see is that it contains at least chipotle and aji panca.) That’s the problem I have with those ghost pepper types–they have a pleasant, fruity habanero-type front end to them, but kind of a chemically aftertaste. I find that in many of the ultra hots like ghost peppers and scorpions, as well as extract-enhanced sauces, but not so much in habaneros, fataliis, and other capsicum chinense peppers. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2016, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiciest-offering-from-a-fast-food-chain/718756/50 "2016-05-20T18:07:58Z")
> [@solost](#): > > The Diablo sauce just reappeared at the Taco Bell closest to my workplace. It’s respectably spicy, but has a really odd aftertaste. Yeah, reappeared close to here as well. I enjoy it. I miss the ghost pepper sauce they had with their grillers a few month’s back. Those had some really nice kick. ---
**Author:** ![Epimetheus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c4cdca/32.png) [@Epimetheus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Epimetheus)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2016, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiciest-offering-from-a-fast-food-chain/718756/51 "2016-05-20T20:19:40Z")
I feel that language like “I like spicy food” and “I have a high tolerance” are too vague. I’m not one of those crazy fools that eats ghost peppers by the handful or indulge in any “can you finish it under x minute” challenges, but I don’t even notice the heat in food that my parents, for instance, think is unbearable. I have a good friend that enjoy spicy food, but their level of heat is more along the lines of pickled Jalapeno and Tabasco sauce on everything. Get him a Blazing Wing and he’d be nope-ing right out of there. I also enjoy spicy food, but Blazing isn’t too spicy for me. I don’t know that I could do the challenge (eating them that fast might get to me), but I put that level of spice on just about everything I eat - [for instance, a healthy amount of this](http://www.amazon.com/Trader-Joes-Triple-Threat-Pepper/dp/B01A7J88U2) on just about anything I eat. I haven’t had Wendy’s GP fries though, but I’m guessing they’d disappoint, at least in my case. It’s also my experience that cultures that are “known” for spicy foods (e.g Thai), their tolerance for the heat isn’t more than just higher than the Average American, and they look at me like I’m crazy when I put more spice on. I’ve never really had actual spicy cajun food, FWIW. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2016, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiciest-offering-from-a-fast-food-chain/718756/52 "2016-05-20T21:24:41Z")
Cajun isn’t in the same league, heat-wise, as Asian and Caribbean and some African cuisines. This is not a knock, at all–it’s just different. ---
**Author:** ![Club\_33](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@Club\_33](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Club_33)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2016, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiciest-offering-from-a-fast-food-chain/718756/53 "2016-05-21T18:07:15Z")
Totally agree about the Taco Bell Grillers. Those might have had the only respectable spicy kick I’ve ever found in a fast food item. The diablo sauce is a welcome addition (for as long as it sticks around, at least), but I always have to mix it with regular hot sauce to mask that strange citrus aftertaste. I do like the little peppers at In and Out for a nice bit of sweating while I’m waiting for my burger to cook. On the burger, they are pretty tame. Eaten by the handful from the little vat over by the ketchup dispenser, they do a nice little number on my mouth that lasts about 10-15 minutes, which is right about the same time it takes for them to call my order number. I’m intrigued by the mention of hot sauce at Five Guys. I hadn’t noticed it as an option. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2016, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiciest-offering-from-a-fast-food-chain/718756/54 "2016-05-21T22:34:27Z")
My favorite local chain ([The Hat](http://www.thehat.com/)) has a tub of sport peppers next to the condiment containers. I always grab a bag or three to go with my chili cheese fries (add onions, add pickles, add tomatoes, add pastrami). Gives them a nice kick. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2016, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiciest-offering-from-a-fast-food-chain/718756/55 "2016-05-27T01:12:05Z")
> [@troub](#): > > Apparently mine doesn’t have these ☹ My wife was out of town, so I got to go there for lunch yesterday 😛 . They had several new cheese offerings and a “cheesy 10-sack” thing, so I got a sack of 10 mixed “french onion,” “garlic,” and “jalapeno” (the only spicy offering). The jalapeno wasn’t spicy, and as for the others…tasty enough, but yeah; bodily functions have been…interesting. I tried the onion and the garlic ones. Couldn’t tell the difference between the two. Every burger from the Castle just tastes like onions (even if you order it without onions and they get it right). ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2016, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiciest-offering-from-a-fast-food-chain/718756/56 "2016-05-28T15:25:18Z")
Taco Tico was a Mexican fast food chain back in the 70s. I have never had any other fast food as hot as their extra hot tamales (you could order mild, hot, or extra hot.) ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2016, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiciest-offering-from-a-fast-food-chain/718756/57 "2016-05-28T16:22:38Z")
> [@JustinC](#): > > I don’t know if it counts as fast food, but New Zealand’s [Hell Pizza](https://hellpizza.com/nz/order/) does some seriously hot pizzas, the hottest of which is the [Flaming Dragon](http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/food-wine/food-news/69634965/Hell-Pizza-Flaming-Dragon-Meet-New-Zealands-hottest-pizza). I managed to finish the third hottest pizza but it wasn’t an enjoyable burn, more like one which made you cry and gave you a stomach ache. For reference, I douse meals in Nando’s Extra Extra Hot Peri Peri sauce and it’s a very, very pleasant burn. I like spicy food, but that’s so far over the limit I’d just say “no thank you.” And it’s not just because of the experience eating it; it’s that when it’s time for it to leave the next day, I’d be doubled over. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiciest-offering-from-a-fast-food-chain/718756.md?page=2)