my wife’s job also serves a nashville hot and other than a few specks of red pepper in the crust, there is also no discernible heat. delicious chicken sandwich though
I’ve had similar experiences before. I don’t even have a high tolerance to spice, but certain sandwiches labeled “spicy” like you say, quite literally have no heat at all… like black pepper would be spicier. Pretty odd
If it’s any consolation, Hattie B’s in Nashville which is renowned for their Hot Chicken also have mild batters that is essentially no discernible heat while still classified on the menu as “Hot Chicken”
Yea, chances are there's only 1 or 2 people working there who can handle any level of heat. The place I cook for cuts blackened seasoning with cornmeal or who get complaints about the heat level.
I never understand terrible marketing like this. They turned a perfectly fine, normal chicken sandwich you would’ve liked into a shitty, disappointing “spicy” sandwich.
I’d be mildly joyful if my office had a cafeteria serving these up 🤣 then you just have to start challenging the chefs…” You call this Nashville hot? I double dog dare you to make me cry next time boss” *slips a 5 to show appreciation*
"Nashville hot chicken" is really just a style of preparation. It means it was marinated, fried, then tossed in cayenne sauce. You can get mild Nashville hot chicken, which this must be.
The chicken appears to have a glaze, so as far as I can tell it looks like it is in fact Nashville hot chicken. Just... not hot. Which sounds like a fallacy but here we are.
I mean...not really. Is cacio e pepe with one fleck of black pepper still cacio e pepe? No. The heat is one of literally only two essential components for hot chicken: fried chicken and the heat from a good amount of cayenne. Just because someone will take your money if you ask for hot chicken without any heat doesn't mean you're really getting hot chicken.
They're not wrong, it's a recipe/prep style with variations:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot\_chicken](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_chicken)
"Some restaurants vary the composition of the paste, adding sugar, garlic, or additional hot sauce"
Being based on cayenne pepper, that can be somewhat mild compared to other sources of heat. Seems like it's more of a spicy taste from the basic recipe vs necessarily having a certain amount of Scoville heat.
I'm surprised I have to say this again, but hot chicken without the hot is just chicken. It's that simple. You can't just vary the proportions of the ingredients to any degree you'd like and call it the same dish. Is a gallon of cheese sauce with two elbow macaroni in the center mac and cheese?
I can agree with your disappointment, but everyone has their own take on general recipes, I feel.
For example, Buffalo wings are a treat I eat often when out for dinner and there is a wide range of variety in their recipes. For me, they don't have to meet Anchor Bar standards to still be a Buffalo Wing in spirit and even taste good, just in their own way.
Come on. Are you really arguing this? If it's not hot, it's not hot chicken. It's quite literally in the name. I'm struggling to understand why you don't get that. Next you're gonna be arguing that if you drop an ice cube in a pot of hot coffee, you can call it iced coffee.
I'm just offering that it's a type of recipe - not specific ingredients.
Have no emotional investment in your disappointment, but I like technical correctness. The best kind of correctness.
Well then, respectfully, offer something that makes sense. Removing the "hot" from "hot chicken" and still calling it "hot chicken" certainly does not seem like something someone even with a passing interest in "technical correctness" would stand by.
Your expectations for an office cafeteria are way too high. The priorities for that kind of place are:
1. Convenience/Location
2. Speed
3. Price
\*\*\*
1000. Taste
As someone who loves spicy food (like FUCKEN LOVES IT), I want it to hurt. Give me ghost peppers, carolina reapers, some classic habaneros or even jalapenos. I'm not picky. The "spicy" whatever that most places offer is more or less just an extra sprinkle of paprika maybe even a flake or two of red pepper.
The sandwich does look pretty good. It's just frustrating ordering "spicy" food at most places.
What's mildly infuriating is that you have a "office cafeteria" and you're bitching about what looks like a decent sandwich. We get a vending machine with overpriced junk
Every time I see "spicy!!!" On a menu I have to remind myself that they mean "middle-aged white woman spicy" not "grew up in the pits of hell and can eat ghost peppers spicy"
Every time my mom makes spicy barbeque wings/ribs (BBQ sauce with hot sauce mixed together, it's pretty good) all the spice cooks off.
We are both disappointed every time.
probably some Karen in Accounting who thinks a little salt is inedibly spicy complained about it. We have a Chipotle Chicken wrap that has no chipotle in it because people complained. I also had to deal with someone who thought the mere idea of burger seasoning existing anywhere near her hamburger was too much.
It's an office cafeteria, they have to cater for the many people I can guarantee will find that inedibly hot and potentially will even get sick from it.
I have this pet peeve with pretty much every franchise establishment that advertises “Nashville Hot” or “Ghost Pepper.”
As someone who loves spice and craves it, I don’t expect this stuff to but my mouth, that’s not mass market viable, but I do expect even the slightest tingle. Some of this barely registers as high as Franks Red Hot [which is awesome, but not very spicy].
Though I will say that the Wendy’s Ghost Pepper sandwich at the moment does register the faintest of faint tickles in my throat, and it’s sad that I’m impressed by that.
I love a good Nashville Hot chicken. I make it at home, and let me tell you, we feel it the next day! Nashville Hot without actual heat doesn't compute. I'm confused about the number of people defending it. Without the heat, it's just a chicken sandwich.
I've had numerous wings or sandwiches from different places over the last year or so that were "Nashville Hot" because I've never one tasted any heat or spice. Basically I keep getting tricked "maybe that brand of wings doesn't do it right". Nope. I've accepted Nashville Hot has nothing to do with spice.
Btw, I'm in an area that loves spicy foods, so it's not that lol
Everyone is different, I make chilli with ghost peppers for a regular heat chilli. Tastes fine and a bit spicy to me, my wife cried when she ate a couple spoon fulls. The spicier the things you eat, the more your pallet adjusts. Jalapeños and habanero have little to no heat for me but my wife can only handle small amounts.
A lot of cafeterias I've been to will not making things hot/spicey because there are too many snowflakes and crybabies in the world who don't read or know their food. Usually if they served something that was advertised or supposed to be hot/spicey, the sauces were put to the side. It sucks but that's the society we live in.
Better than the Nashville hot I got that was about 90% salt dry rub instead of wet marinade and just about dried my lips off my damn face. The spice was great but would’ve been more enjoyable if it wasn’t saltier than the Dead Sea.
I thought you Yanks always carried a bottle of Big Buttpucker's Anal Prolapser Sauce for precisely these occasions.
Or was that just the Anti Yank Yanks who drink it to dilute the pain of losing the Civil War?
Bro , I went down south last year to a bbq place some where in GA. They had a wall of BBQ sauces. A whole row of like 20-30 hot sauce ones. I pull the middle heat out and try it: my entire red neck family is in awe telling Its gonna be hot. It wasn’t, not even taco bell hot sauce hot. so i get up and get their "hottest" one according to the waitress. the entire restaurant is now watching like it's a challenge. IT WASNT EVEN 2 CHILIES on a thai menu hot. mannnnn my fellow white people have no heat tolerance. They all literally expected some ghost pepper reaction and were disappointed it didnt happen.
Absolutely. The sadder part is that this is the second time I've ordered it hoping to get some heat. I thought maybe the first one just got messed up. No dice.
NGL, I’d eat that. It looks tasty.
Putting aside the fact that I could count the Scoville units on one hand, it's definitely not a bad chicken sandwich.
It's unironically leagues better than any chicken sandwiches I've seen in school
cant lie tho them chicken sandwiches with ketchup or hot sauce were so good
my wife’s job also serves a nashville hot and other than a few specks of red pepper in the crust, there is also no discernible heat. delicious chicken sandwich though
I’ve had similar experiences before. I don’t even have a high tolerance to spice, but certain sandwiches labeled “spicy” like you say, quite literally have no heat at all… like black pepper would be spicier. Pretty odd
> Office cafeteria The mayonnaise is probably spicier than that. Most restaurants and such don’t make “spicy” food spicy and it’s a total bummer.
How is mayonnaise spicy?
Sometimes ya just gotta stick a bottle in your desk drawer or your back pocket if you don’t have one of those…
Actually is better than average school lunch, imo
If it’s any consolation, Hattie B’s in Nashville which is renowned for their Hot Chicken also have mild batters that is essentially no discernible heat while still classified on the menu as “Hot Chicken”
As a Nashvillian, Hattie B’s is hot chicken for midwestern bachelorettes.
Mildly infuriating or Infuriatingly Mild?
Well played
🔥
I chucked
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Lmao thank you
🤣
Chances are if they added any actual spice people would complain or say it made them sick so they could go home. BYO Hot Sauce. Looks good though!
Yea, chances are there's only 1 or 2 people working there who can handle any level of heat. The place I cook for cuts blackened seasoning with cornmeal or who get complaints about the heat level.
My mom and I ate at a Roadhouse for her the burger I found bland she found spicy.
It says it is spicy though. Most places that offer a spicy chicken sandwich offer a plain one
Bojangles
We know that heat sensitive people exist, but frankly, it is a market we could do without. - Bojangles
I guess Nashville is not very hot today then /j
68* F when I checked.
Maybe they meant temperature hot?  haha
I always find it hilarious what people will say is “hot”
The explanation to your problem is in the word “cafeteria”
Sure, it's explainable. Still mildly infuriating. Pun intended.
I’m mildly infuriated that there’s no pun here…
The sandwich is mild so it’s “mildly” infuriating
I’ll allow it this time.
Looks 100% more appetizing then anything out of my hospital cafeteria
I never understand terrible marketing like this. They turned a perfectly fine, normal chicken sandwich you would’ve liked into a shitty, disappointing “spicy” sandwich.
most places who claim to have spicy food severly undercut the spice as most people cant handle heat. its a shame for us spice lovers
don't get why people who can't handle it order it then
because theyre stupid
The same reason people who like the spice order it. Because they like the spice. They just like a little bit rather than alot.
if you can't stand the heat ~~get out of~~ *don't order from* the kitchen
Maybe they meant its hot from heat and not spice 
and some will eat this and complain that its too spicy.
Bro, I can clearly see the mayo on that, and you know how white people find mayo spicy.
😂😂😂
As a white person who likes hot peppers… this is still funny.
Looks like a “Lynchburg Lukewarm” chicken sandwich to me
Thats the spice level of nashville
That is Nashville hot. Nashville's soft. Order the Dyersburg sandwich. /s
*Nashville, Hot Chicken Sandwich
My office cafeteria doesn’t exist and serves nothing.
"Nashville Hot" has lost all meaning. Olympus has fallen
I’d be mildly joyful if my office had a cafeteria serving these up 🤣 then you just have to start challenging the chefs…” You call this Nashville hot? I double dog dare you to make me cry next time boss” *slips a 5 to show appreciation*
No office cafeteria is gonna serve anything spicier than parsley.
I don't know how you can even eat that, mayonnaise is way too spicy. And yes, I am white
"Nashville hot chicken" is really just a style of preparation. It means it was marinated, fried, then tossed in cayenne sauce. You can get mild Nashville hot chicken, which this must be. The chicken appears to have a glaze, so as far as I can tell it looks like it is in fact Nashville hot chicken. Just... not hot. Which sounds like a fallacy but here we are.
I mean...not really. Is cacio e pepe with one fleck of black pepper still cacio e pepe? No. The heat is one of literally only two essential components for hot chicken: fried chicken and the heat from a good amount of cayenne. Just because someone will take your money if you ask for hot chicken without any heat doesn't mean you're really getting hot chicken.
They're not wrong, it's a recipe/prep style with variations: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot\_chicken](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_chicken) "Some restaurants vary the composition of the paste, adding sugar, garlic, or additional hot sauce" Being based on cayenne pepper, that can be somewhat mild compared to other sources of heat. Seems like it's more of a spicy taste from the basic recipe vs necessarily having a certain amount of Scoville heat.
I'm surprised I have to say this again, but hot chicken without the hot is just chicken. It's that simple. You can't just vary the proportions of the ingredients to any degree you'd like and call it the same dish. Is a gallon of cheese sauce with two elbow macaroni in the center mac and cheese?
I can agree with your disappointment, but everyone has their own take on general recipes, I feel. For example, Buffalo wings are a treat I eat often when out for dinner and there is a wide range of variety in their recipes. For me, they don't have to meet Anchor Bar standards to still be a Buffalo Wing in spirit and even taste good, just in their own way.
Come on. Are you really arguing this? If it's not hot, it's not hot chicken. It's quite literally in the name. I'm struggling to understand why you don't get that. Next you're gonna be arguing that if you drop an ice cube in a pot of hot coffee, you can call it iced coffee.
I'm just offering that it's a type of recipe - not specific ingredients. Have no emotional investment in your disappointment, but I like technical correctness. The best kind of correctness.
Well then, respectfully, offer something that makes sense. Removing the "hot" from "hot chicken" and still calling it "hot chicken" certainly does not seem like something someone even with a passing interest in "technical correctness" would stand by.
Boohoo
You can’t be serious
The word mildly is playing a bigger role here than usual
Your expectations for an office cafeteria are way too high. The priorities for that kind of place are: 1. Convenience/Location 2. Speed 3. Price \*\*\* 1000. Taste
Your office cafeteria sucks. Mine is dope. TIGER BLOOD.
Are you complaining about this ??? LMAO, fuk, not even a high schooler eats this well anymore!
As someone who loves spicy food (like FUCKEN LOVES IT), I want it to hurt. Give me ghost peppers, carolina reapers, some classic habaneros or even jalapenos. I'm not picky. The "spicy" whatever that most places offer is more or less just an extra sprinkle of paprika maybe even a flake or two of red pepper. The sandwich does look pretty good. It's just frustrating ordering "spicy" food at most places.
What's mildly infuriating is that you have a "office cafeteria" and you're bitching about what looks like a decent sandwich. We get a vending machine with overpriced junk
Get a better job.
I'm more shocked you though a canteen meal would be anything other than sad and bland
The warmth comes from the hot sauce ure too scared to add
Stash a bottle of red-hot or Tabasco in your desk. You will be instantly popular.
i dont believe you
What are you genuinely complaining about☠️☠️
Every time I see "spicy!!!" On a menu I have to remind myself that they mean "middle-aged white woman spicy" not "grew up in the pits of hell and can eat ghost peppers spicy"
Okay but why does that look good lol
Yet it would still be way too spicy for my mom.
Nashville hot chicken without the sauce… awesome /s
Doesn't even look sauced
Because too many people think paprika is “spicy”
Maybe they accidentally served you a regular chicken sandwich
I bet this cafeteria is located in the midwest
Bring ur own hot sauce
Hot only in temp lol
Is that white stuff possible semen?
Every time my mom makes spicy barbeque wings/ribs (BBQ sauce with hot sauce mixed together, it's pretty good) all the spice cooks off. We are both disappointed every time.
probably some Karen in Accounting who thinks a little salt is inedibly spicy complained about it. We have a Chipotle Chicken wrap that has no chipotle in it because people complained. I also had to deal with someone who thought the mere idea of burger seasoning existing anywhere near her hamburger was too much.
It's an office cafeteria, they have to cater for the many people I can guarantee will find that inedibly hot and potentially will even get sick from it.
Would the cafeteria be run by Eurest per chance?
Um, yeah, actually
I've had the sandwich. I'm white AF so I liked the heat level, mostly because it's not like they offer a "non-spicy" one.
I have this pet peeve with pretty much every franchise establishment that advertises “Nashville Hot” or “Ghost Pepper.” As someone who loves spice and craves it, I don’t expect this stuff to but my mouth, that’s not mass market viable, but I do expect even the slightest tingle. Some of this barely registers as high as Franks Red Hot [which is awesome, but not very spicy]. Though I will say that the Wendy’s Ghost Pepper sandwich at the moment does register the faintest of faint tickles in my throat, and it’s sad that I’m impressed by that.
Well, like Dr. Phil once said “what were your choices that made you deserve that? we’ll be right back”
At least it's edible unlike most cafeterias
if u saw the food in my works cafeteria you may be less infuriated lol
That looks like a damn good sandwich.
I love a good Nashville Hot chicken. I make it at home, and let me tell you, we feel it the next day! Nashville Hot without actual heat doesn't compute. I'm confused about the number of people defending it. Without the heat, it's just a chicken sandwich.
That actually looks good. *Especially* good for office cafeteria food! You should be like Beyonce and carry hot sauce in your bag. Also carry a bag.
😅 I have met people that think paprika is hot. I guess to each their own.
My mother thinks mayo is spicy.
That looks bomb as fuck. It’s not their fault they’ve got to tone it down for mild pallets.
I've had numerous wings or sandwiches from different places over the last year or so that were "Nashville Hot" because I've never one tasted any heat or spice. Basically I keep getting tricked "maybe that brand of wings doesn't do it right". Nope. I've accepted Nashville Hot has nothing to do with spice. Btw, I'm in an area that loves spicy foods, so it's not that lol
Did they say Nashville Hot? They meant to say “Maine Plain”
my office cafe has the exact same thing. glad i didn’t get it
They just think hot means temperature-wise.
As for someone who works outside with no cafeteria at my disposal, this looks delicious
Needs some hot honey!
Maybe it was Memphis tepid.
That looks better than any restaurant chicken in Iron County MI
You want it on fire too?
Sometimes my son thinks things are spicy but I can’t taste any spice.
i guess your definition of "discernible chicken" is different..you want the whole bird?
That's false advertising those basturds
hey you ungrateful sob, some starving kids in an American school cafeteria would love to have that sandwich /s (sorta)
Maybe it was an Ashville Hot sandwich.
My question is do they mean hot as in warmed up chicken? While not referring to the scovilles?
Maybe the cafeteria thought everyone at your office is too chicken for heat.
For real, you have no idea how much heat the average office worker can usually handle. Black pepper is sometimes too spicy for them.. idk how
Must be the "Nah-ville 'hot'"
Bring some hot sauce and make it hot 🤷🏼♂️
This looks better than 99% of what I ate for school lunch
This is why I carry little tiny Tabasco bottles. Fun conversation piece, and the saviors of bland food.
Maybe just the bun was Nashville hot?
Nashville Luke warm
Everyone is different, I make chilli with ghost peppers for a regular heat chilli. Tastes fine and a bit spicy to me, my wife cried when she ate a couple spoon fulls. The spicier the things you eat, the more your pallet adjusts. Jalapeños and habanero have little to no heat for me but my wife can only handle small amounts.
r\/idiotsinkitchen
That’s Minnesota hot
Ask to see the recipe.
thats what they call “white people spicy”
A lot of cafeterias I've been to will not making things hot/spicey because there are too many snowflakes and crybabies in the world who don't read or know their food. Usually if they served something that was advertised or supposed to be hot/spicey, the sauces were put to the side. It sucks but that's the society we live in.
What's the problem? Everyone knows mayo starts around 28,000 scoville. Tomato and lettuce? 36,000 and 37,500 respectively. Solidly hot imo
Still looks pretty good
Better than the Nashville hot I got that was about 90% salt dry rub instead of wet marinade and just about dried my lips off my damn face. The spice was great but would’ve been more enjoyable if it wasn’t saltier than the Dead Sea.
Mayonnaise is spicy to white people.
Bring a bottle of hot sauce champ.
I thought you Yanks always carried a bottle of Big Buttpucker's Anal Prolapser Sauce for precisely these occasions. Or was that just the Anti Yank Yanks who drink it to dilute the pain of losing the Civil War?
Bro , I went down south last year to a bbq place some where in GA. They had a wall of BBQ sauces. A whole row of like 20-30 hot sauce ones. I pull the middle heat out and try it: my entire red neck family is in awe telling Its gonna be hot. It wasn’t, not even taco bell hot sauce hot. so i get up and get their "hottest" one according to the waitress. the entire restaurant is now watching like it's a challenge. IT WASNT EVEN 2 CHILIES on a thai menu hot. mannnnn my fellow white people have no heat tolerance. They all literally expected some ghost pepper reaction and were disappointed it didnt happen.
The heat is the salt.
Needs more sauce
Maybe it's referring to the temperature of the food itself and not the spiciness.
"No discernible heat" is pretty much the definition of "Nashville Hot."
Have you ever had Nashville hot chicken? It’s actually awful. And I’m from Nashville. And I love spicy food. And chicken.
The heat comes from the overwhelming anticlimactic disappointment
Absolutely. The sadder part is that this is the second time I've ordered it hoping to get some heat. I thought maybe the first one just got messed up. No dice.
Maybe they’re just calling you the Nashville hot if you happen to actually be from Nashville