>"world's spiciest pepper that isn't one of those weird pure-bred novelty ghost pepper thingies"
>casually available at domino's pizza and my local mexican place in sauce form
>doesn't fucking kill my tongue

wtf

oh yeah, fsr, never felt ANY mexican food i've eaten's "too spicy". and yes, i'm aware of the differences between real mexican and tex-mex (e.g. white cheese vs yellow cheese, texture/appearance/composition of tortillas, menu items).

i wonder how much of it has to do with the fact that i live in a fucking new jersey suburb, and nyc's widely held to be one of the worst metro areas for mexican food, compared to anywhere in the southwest or even fucking chicago.

the INDIAN food here's another story though.

(also sichuan chinese food, but they're a different story since they've got like a 2nd dimension of spiciness called "mala" going on, but i'm getting carried away.)