Mixing Sociology with some hot sauce on the side. . .

[gilbertrollins]

Discuss.

[moderatedbliss]

I once wrote a paper about how hot sauce consumption is a display of masculinity, males try to assert that dominance by consuming the hottest possible hot sauce. Look around for the Sociology of hot sauce, I think there's a few articles out there from professors at Emory and Kentucky.

[gilbertrollins]

Apparently women use hot sauce sadisticaly.  http://livingtextblog.andosciasociology.net/2011/10/13/the-hot-sauce-mom-on-drphil/ 

 

Looks like women use hot sauce sadistically, and men use it masochistically.  This is an interesting reversal of heteronormative gender roles in modernity.

[moderatedbliss]

Good friend, your link does not work for me. Perhaps it is just me, but I can't appreciate your analysis without an official Dr. Phil source. 

[gilbertrollins]

Shoot.  It must be a google-cached page or something.  Try this: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&ved=0CFMQFjAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Flivingtextblog.andosciasociology.net%2F2011%2F10%2F13%2Fthe-hot-sauce-mom-on-drphil%2F&ei=qDOHUbrZJcaiqQHDk4HYBQ&usg=AFQjCNEu9kVTwybFlWVSX6dNrXcRtDNoHw&bvm=bv.45960087,d.aWM&cad=rja

 

Frankly I'm surprised at the lack of scholarship on hot sauce, given its obvious relevance to an array of issues in current literature.  We can correct this situation.  Excelsior. 

[moderatedbliss]

Did anybody else read the part of that article where the author nonchalantly mentioned that her mother hit her in the face with a switch repeatedly? 

In regards to your concern about hot sauce in literature: I think the current lack of hot sauce in academia can be related to current discourse regarding food politicization.. freedom means being able to eat literally whatever you want, I know personally that when a waiter or waitress asks me if I would like hot sauce, I see it as a personal attack to my freedom. 

[gilbertrollins]

Tell me about it.  There is a tacit Bland Culture that continually reinforces for people that spicy enchiladas, curry, and even Flamin' Hot Cheetos are completely off limits -- not just for consumption, but for academic discussion.  It's despicable, and clearly the result of a long tradition of food microaggressions in the occident.