[Redway]

All opinions you feel are unpopular, so long as they’re not too controversial, are welcome here. My own to begin with is that Carolina Reaper, at least the way I cook them, aren’t too spicy (maybe it would be different if I ate one whole; scotch bonnets are hot enough raw and whole) and that the whole ‘pre vs. post-pandemic’ tingy-o is very annoying. The general state of the world was poor long before February 2020 and plenty of individual things have always been on their own time-trajectory, not necessarily influenced by the pandemic at all. EastEnders for example is the best it’s been in years and years (the 2010s - besides 2010, 2014, 2019 and maybe some of 2011, even if that was the year it started tanking big-time - were notoriously mostly garbage and increasingly unpopular) but some ignorant people who probably don’t really even watch the show take the cue of life apparently beginning again from Covid onwards and cap off the classical era at just when the pandemic begun. It’s become fashionable to blame everything on a pandemic that came and went (more or less) 2/3 years ago and now a lot of individual trajectories have been mapped onto the ‘oh, since Covid, it’s been crap’ rhetoric even when it could not be more relevant in those individual cases.

As for the pepper-dem ting … well. Peppers come in all shades across the world and some are hotter than others but there’s a way they can be mellowed and curbed some. Yellow habanero peppers (ose Nsukka, it’s known as locally in the part of Nigeria it comes from) are probably just as hot as Carolina Reaper but they’ve never been measured against each-other officially. That would be an interesting call but until then I’m more inclined to say that those little yellow peppers are slightly hotter.

Also. I don’t know how unpopular these are but barbecue (I.M.O.) has, like, no place on pizza and beer > vodka any day, any time, anywhere.

And that’s my lot for now. Come and add your own.