I have never liked or had any affinity to spicy food. When I was in high school, I used to get the question because I am Mexican, I should like spicy food! I don’t. I figured out how to remedy that when people would ask me about not liking spicy food. I would just look at them and say, “I am Mexican. I’m spicy enough!“
I’ve said that to Sean as well! I remember years ago, when Sean was still in high school, my nephew was coming to pick him up. I asked Sean to pick me up some dinner because they were going to be out for the evening so I wanted him to drop it off at the house before he left. Sean asked me what I wanted and I told him my Taco Bell order. This was back when I could still chew!
Sean told me to give him my order so Nathan can pick it up before he comes to our house. I told him, I want to Mexican pizzas with no sauce. So, Nathan came over with my Taco Bell order in his hand. He handed me the bag as Sean came out of his room. He looked at me and said, “Aunt Jenny, how can you have a Mexican pizza without the sauce?!”
Sean had just walked out of his room and he said, ”Ew, mom!” I laughed at both of them and I told them that the sauce at Taco Bell is “White people food.” And then we all laughed and they said that I have to have the sauce with the pizza. I looked at them and said, “You two are white, and I am not!
Wednesday when Sean was here when my chair was getting refurbished (I am still trying to gather my thoughts regarding that refurbishment!) he told me a story about someone saying to him that he looks like a white guy but they thought he was ‘spicy white’ which made Sean laugh. He responded, “I’m half Mexican” To which they replied,”There it is!”
That story made me laugh and it’s funny that I would say that I am spicy enough because I am Mexican and now Sean is also spicy but he is a ‘spicy white guy.’