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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 01:13:52 JST Adrianna Tan

   I grew up eating so much spice and chilies for breakfast that nothing is ever truly spicy, and I also didn’t have ‘breakfast food’, so butter chicken at 9am feels right to me (it isn’t spicy)

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 01:14:52 JST Adrianna Tan

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     Also think English is so imprecise. In other languages I speak there are different words for spicy (has seasoning) and spicy (has heat) and spicy (will burn your butt off)

     I tend to think of spicy only as the last category

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 01:16:26 JST Adrianna Tan

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     Butter chicken and basmati rice for breakfast (out of a box, Trader Joe’s, not terrible) is the closest convenient approximate of a breakfast I might have in Singapore or Malaysia or Indonesia. Coconut spiced rice with a chicken curry side. Close enough

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     Denis (constantorbit@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 02:28:14 JST Denis

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     @skinnylatte Sort of a tangent but that's why I love I still have some Bahasa Indonesia rattling around in my brain.

     panas vs. pedes ftw!

     (I imagine BI might have more terms for nuances of pedes? But I was a kid when I lived there so I don't remember)

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     Alexandra Magin 🏳️‍🌈 (recursive@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 04:01:54 JST Alexandra Magin 🏳️‍🌈

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     @skinnylatte so many conversations where it was confusing if someone was cautioning that some food is hot (temperature) or hot (capsaicin)

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 04:14:46 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • ティージェーグレェ

     @teajaygrey yeah i would do that, with more hot sauce

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     ティージェーグレェ (teajaygrey@snac.bsd.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 04:14:47 JST ティージェーグレェ

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     I was having some vegan chilaquiles the other day for brunch and the thought crossed my mind: "this is more of a savory breakfast and while not terribly 'spicy' to my palate is at least closer, I wonder if skinnylatte is into such things?"
     
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     SnoopJ (snoopj@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 04:18:06 JST SnoopJ

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     @skinnylatte the tipping point for me on this was realizing how difficult it is to communicate málà using only English. "numbing spicy" is not incorrect but still so inadequate

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     D J Capelis (djcapelis@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 17-Apr-2025 14:26:35 JST D J Capelis

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     @skinnylatte I will never understand why anyone prefers chicken breast.