/ck/ - Food & Cooking

If fast food restaurants are forced to have arbitrary calorie counts, they should also be forced to have spice ratings from 1 to 10. Having extra calories never hurt anyone, but eating food that's too spicy for you can make you choke or throw up or go to the hospital or even die. I think it's important that we demand fast food restaurants start including accurate and readable heat levels on all of their food. My friend's older brother back in middle school went to the hospital with a bad sickness after choking on some Taco Bell volcano sauce, he suffocated and almost died.

Heat levels can be objective and I think restaurants should be required to use this scale:

1 - No heat, basically ketchup
2 - Tiny heat, honey mustard
3 - A bit of heat, non-honey mustard or onions
4 - A good amount of heat, mild salsa or Taco Bell Mild Sauce
5 - Medium amount of heat, Slim Jim
6 - A bit too much heat, Taco Bell Medium Sauce
7 - A lot of heat, Taco Bell Hot Sauce
8 - Too much heat, Tapatio or Taco Bell Fire Sauce
9 - Way too much heat, Taco Bell Diablo Sauce
10 - You're a freak if you eat this, Taco Bell Volcano Sauce or real jalapenos

Chicken wings.
From left, plain, maple barbecue, ghost pepper honey mustard, and sriracha.