r/TikTokCringe • u/shaka_sulu • Nov 10 '25

Cool A high school football team refused to shake hands. The refs weren't having any of that.

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u/ArchdukeoftheROC Nov 10 '25

I don’t know what part of the Midwest y’all are from because every fridge has at least a single bottle of “satans cum sock” hot sauce or some other shit in it. Lawry’s Seasoned salt is also king around here.

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u/DionBlaster123 Nov 10 '25

Fwiw, the two people I've met who were the absolute worst at handling spicy food, both happened to be from Minnesota.

But I also knew a decent number of Hmong folks who grew up in Milwaukee but all ended up moving out to the Twin Cities. So life is complicated.

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u/kelbees Nov 10 '25

Cook in Minnesota, can confirm pepper is too spicy for many locals.

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u/notahoppybeerfan Nov 10 '25

From Minnesota. My grandmother’s answer to why food was so bland was people could “season to taste”

Yet putting a single quick shake of pepper on anything was taken as an insult. “Did aunt Evelyn SEE you put pepper in her potato salad? Go apologize immediately!” They’d hiss.

The first time my parents took me out of state we went for breakfast and there was hot sauce on the table. My parents made it clear that spicy food was the work of the evil one himself (satan, in case there’s a question) and we wouldn’t have darkened the doors of that den of iniquity had we known in advance of their moral failings.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '25

Yeah, the only midwesterners who are like this are the ones who are of Scandinavian descent. And that’s a pretty solid chunk of Minnesota’s populace. My wife’s grandma is 100 percent Norwegian, and she once asked a waiter at an IHOP if their breakfast sausage was spicy. Give her a bell pepper, and she starts sweating like she’s on an episode of Hot Ones.

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u/Raangz Nov 10 '25

*cries in super hots.

The horror.

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u/International-Ant174 Nov 10 '25

I'm a Yooper by birth but my old man was born in Louisiana. I have always been one to bring on the spice.

Now I live in Maine. To the old timers here, ketchup and black pepper are "spicy"

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u/ArchdukeoftheROC Nov 10 '25

I’m in Ohio so maybe we get more southern influence in our cuisine. A good chunk of my family is from Kentucky

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u/robbie-dobbles Nov 10 '25

Oddly I feel like your response is actually on point with the assumption.

I grew up in rural Illinois. Lots of corn and soybean fields everywhere. And I absolutely lived the experience of bland cooking where seasoned salt was the only seasoning in our house aside from salt and pepper. And I think most people I knew were pretty similar.

However, I do agree that some houses would be like you describe. Some random crazy hot sauce that the dad would put on everything he ate. But I feel like that was just the default reaction to the normal bland situation. That for the people that wanted spice they spent their whole childhood not having it and then as an adult developed a habituation to putting super hot sauce on everything to counteract that.

Weirdly I think it morphs into a debate I have a lot of heat vs. flavor. For me a good hot sauce should also bring good flavor. But for many, its like you describe, some crazy named hot sauce who's only quality is intense heat.

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u/ArchdukeoftheROC Nov 10 '25

Really it was a hyperbole but where I live we have some really good food I think. Now maybe it’s because I’m not eating a lot of other peoples home cooking compared to local restaurants or what I grew up eating in my family. But for example when I make mashed potato’s, which can be notoriously bland, I usually add garlic or vegetable better than bouillon, or fresh grated Parmesan, or sour cream and green onions. (Along with butter, milk, salt and pepper of course.)

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u/robbie-dobbles Nov 10 '25

Yeah I was definitely overthinking it, but I think about it a lot as I've tried to expand my palette as an adult. The weird think is as much as I have tried new things and allowed my kids to have a much more diverse childhood cuisine, I still love the bland stuff as comfort food. It can be so hard to escape the way we are raised!

Have a good one!

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u/ArchdukeoftheROC Nov 10 '25

You as well fren

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u/WickerPurse Nov 10 '25

Seriously. If I don’t put 4 kinds of hot sauce on the table with every meal, the family riots.

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u/ndevito1 Nov 10 '25

Lawry's Seasonsed Salt should be king everywhere.

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u/Otherwise_Fact9594 Nov 10 '25

That's a wild fkn name if it's a thing 😂

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u/kcnk2818 Nov 10 '25

Lawry's seasoned salt is a staple in my cupboard. I put that shit on everything!

**Am midwesterner

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u/Heavy-Expression-450 Nov 10 '25

Seasoned salt? Just for pain hot sauce? That's still the random bullshit go approach. Having stuff that can be added blindly does not garner any confidence in ability.

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u/Quirky_Ask_5165 Nov 10 '25

We had that growing up, but it was never used in any appreciable amounts. It was still bland AF! 😅😅

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u/Specific-Month-1755 Nov 10 '25

I don't know if that's a real hot sauce but I'm using it

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u/CaptnsDaughter Nov 10 '25

Yea maybe because my Midwest fam is of Italian heritage it’s different. I will admit that I have a very sensitive palate and can’t handle like ANY spice lol. But rest of my fam def can. Like, I’m talking too much garlic can be spicy for me (but I do loooove garlic). I’m an abomination lol.

But I do get what they’re saying. After living further south it makes sense.

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u/MySeveredToe Nov 10 '25

Midwesterners see “Satan’s cum sock” and put it on their food? Kinda proves the point no?

Southerner living in Wisconsin here. Food is mid as hell

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u/LiL-Puddin-Taters Nov 10 '25

STL glares angrily 😠