/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>19916275
>Ghost peppers are so played out.
They've become diluted (literally) into an absolutely meaningless marketing term on the same level as "wagyu". "Ghost pepper" is now actually a turn off because it generally means the manufacturer is more concerned with the meme than flavor or heat.

>What's the latest and greatest happening in the pepper world?
The Puckerbutt guy has allegedly bred a new "hottest pepper evar"... but he's trying to maintain Intellectual Property control over this latest one, lesson learned from the Reaper meme, so his claim is as unverifiable as it is meaningless from a /ck/ perspective. Somebody lost the plot. Hope he at least sells a lot of t-shirts.

The other news (old news) is that Paqui abandoned their Tiktok prank hot chip after some BIPOC died, so now medicated zoomers are dousing themselves in gasoline and setting themselves on fire in order to feel anything, anything at all.

For me, the latest happening is that some of my go-to soyboy craft sauces are now openly advertising themselves as "favorite sauces of J. Lopez Q. Kenji-Alt-Dingaling-Shyamalan". It was bad enough when they mentioned "Hot Ones" in the advertising copy, now I actually throw up my mouth a little when submitting the order. I'm THIS far away from saying fuckit and buying a Tabasco holster so that I can maintain my contrarian hipster street cred at the next food truck festival.