On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 09:34:28PM -0500, Dave Drum wrote: > Jim Graham wrote: >> Is it my imagination, or have the words, "Thai hot" completely lost >> their meaning? > Look to see who is running the "Thai" place. Thai folks. This is a military town---lots of "imported" (sorry, don't mean to offend anyone...don't have the negative feelings to have any desire to do so...just looking for a simple, one-word term) wives, including a bunch of Thais. I wouldn't even consider eating at a Thai place that wasn't run by Thai folk around here...same for Chinese (for when I'm ok with excessively mild...if you go by what we have around here, which is all I have to go by, all Chinese food is *EXTREMELY* mild). > That will give you a tip-off. Ask the waitron if the food is "Thai Hot" > or "Round-eye Hot". ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Ok, *THAT* I *HAVE* to remember!!! :-) 10pt bonus for making me laugh! > Many places started out as "authentic" Thai cuisine and got so much > pissing and moaning from Aunt Minnie and Bessie Do-As-Would-Be-Done-By > about the "too hot" Actually, the lady who is the owner and/or top manager of the one Thai place that can sometimes actually get my Pad Thai nice and hot (and yes, she's Thai, and, like me, does not generally like non-fiery foods) commented that they're getting more and more requests for Thai hot. There are a lot of chile heads around here.... My impression, and I'm seriously wondering if I'm right about this, is that I might have jumped right past Thai hot and on to Nuclear Hot as my heat level. My best friend, Lisa (from when I worked at 16th Special Operations Wing Intelligence), and I were talking about this just a couple of nights ago (neither of us has ever met anyone else who can keep up with the other on eating fire except ourselves...and there, it's a dead-even match-up). Btw, my newest idea follows along with the general concept of a comment I received (might have been to the e-mail I'm replying to or perhaps another---triple brain surgery and meds...yeah, that's my excuse...and it's the REAL excuse): buy some fresh Thai peppers (my Thai peppers all died out this year, so I have to [embarassed look] buy them) and, just like the "You Know You're a Chile-Head If..." list says, walk into the Thai place and say, "Here, start with these...." Oh well.... I gotta tell y'all...it's great to be back here on the list, amongst the other chile-heads! I don't know if anyone even knew me well enough to miss me (probably the only person, if she's even on the list, would be the Firegirl---are you out there, Mary? Remember me? Remember times when you called me back at work and weren't quite sure what to say when I answered with the standard "unsecure line, this is Jim" bit? <grin>), but I've certainly missed being here! Later, --jim -- 73 DE N5IAL (/4) MiSTie #49997 < Running FreeBSD 6.1 > spooky130@cox.net || j.graham@ieee.org ICBM/Hurr.: 30.39735N 86.60439W My policy on spammers: "Castrate first, ask questions later."