things that you do that most people don't. slightly uncommon to uncommon stuff/things.
when i was in college (ksu cats), i would get hunams (aggieville) and ask for it spicy. i lived close by and after a while they got to know me. i'd walk in and they'd be like oh yeah here is the spicy guy. they would pump it up with crap tons of spice and sometimes i'd almost think it was too much but never did i actually really think it. that was not an option. i was a man. a man that loved spice. anyway, i eventually got to know the spice as hot oil. sweet, sweet, hunams hot oil. i was 21 at the time.
when i eventually moved away from mhk like most of us cat fans do, i would occasionally end up at a hunamesque place and ask for it spicy. i would often have to say and request "hot oil" and describe what i wanted. this was back in the burgeoning food industry of the early 2000's. sometimes they would nail it and get me what i wanted, sometimes they wouldn't have a clue and sometimes they would be like yeah ok and then completely eff it up. i cannot explain the frustration.
this inconsistency caused aggravation and the aggravation lead to innovation. i would go to stores and purchase my own hot oil. cell phones were getting hot. the internet was a thing. surely dillons would have hot oil. boom they did. i took it home. i cooked with it. it sucked. devastation. i gave up. just quit. then i remembered that the occasional extra hunam hot oil to go just looked liked oil with generic hot red peppers in it like you would get at pizza hut or whatever. again, this was 2002ish.
i would attempt the impossible. cheap dillons "chinese" hot oil combined aka "infused" with cheap dillons hot red peppers. this was it. this was gold. a less driven person would have given up but not me and the rest of my life has been approximately 2% better because of it.
share your stories america. this is for you. this is for us. this is for amazing super secret food things!
