Hey, so I am fighting with my bestie about "hot sauce."
Now it started when I prepared mung beans that took a few days to soak, and today while we were discussing dinner plans she offered to fry the mung beans with hot sauce. But immediately said she wouldn't because she said "I can't handle spice." Damage done-
I immediately had a gag reflex thinking she was going to add Cholula hot sauce (which we have in the pantry) and she goes on to say that she was talking about the hot sauce Sriracha. For context she's half Asian specifically Philippines, but I grew up with east Asians since elementary, middle, high school I talking Chinese, South Korean, and Japanese and I have NEVER seen or heard anyone refer to Siracha as effin hot sauce. If someone says they are going to add hot sauce to food the last thing I'm thinking of is Sriracha! Nobody calls Sriracha hotsauce- at least in my head I'm thinking Mexican style hot sauces.
Anyway shes dying on this hill that hot sauces is generic for anything spicy- and im dying on the hill that hot sauces are specially the Mexican style hotsauce bottles. Additional context we both live in the US. And when we say hot sauce we mean the sauce not the chunky stuff. Both me and my roomie are waiting on the validation of random strangers.
Reddit AITA?
ETA: fixed misspellings & clarify we have Cholula, Gochujang, and Sriracha in our fridge I promise im not a xenophobe about sauce
ETA2: cholula fix
Final update: Im the AH I was wrong -_- I admit that I didn't know a lot about hot sauce, I thought all hot sauces including Tobasco and Frank's were originally from Mexico. I have since educated myself about the contributions of Louisiana and found out there was a lot made post-civil war to add flavor. I concede that Sriracha is a type of hot sauce. It is not THE hot sauce I think of when someone is offering me hot sauce, but ill be careful with my wording from here on out as we navigate a three hotsauce household.
Thank you for the humble pie reddit.