our next door neighbours are hindus and even the stuff they swear doesn't have chilli in - has chilli in !
Toral gave me some lentil dish a while back, said it didn't have chilli in.
So like an idiot I believed her, ate a few spoons before the heat kicked in - managed about half the small bowl before my taste buds shut down.
It was full of little red bits of chilli.
So I mentioned this and her reply was: 'that's dried chilli from the mixed spice - that doesn't count. Thought you meant fresh chillis.'
The thing about indian food is that they use really great spice blends, the flavours are fantastic. And then they go and hide all those flavours under the kind of chilli layer that would make a mexican's eyes water !
I have a packet of ghost chilli powder, it's been unopened for about 5 years. I know if I opened it I'd be stupid enough to taste it on my finger, and I know I'd really really regret it. So I don't open it lol
Might take it to mallorca next year and pete and the guam guys can have a macho chilli off !
Hell I reckon once we get a few beers in the Austrians, they'd be daft enough to join in to