Had dinner tonight at a Tibetan restaurant here in Bloomington, IN, where they asked me how spicy, on a 1-5 scale. I got to wondering: is that linear? Logarithmic? Exponential? (And what do those quan...
@nprofile1q... I love spicy food (I am no longer allowed to eat it, though, due to health reasons). At an Indian restaurant in Iceland, they had the following scale: mild, Indian-mild, medium, Indian-medium, strong, Indian-strong. I discovered that Indian-medium was the level of spiciness I liked the most, although it would probably be too strong for the average European palate.
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