Actually, this is probably a food trend of the last decade — too much hot sauce. Not Sri Lankan cuisine or other foods that are traditionally highly seasoned. No, FD is thinking about the way in which hot sauce seems to be added to too many foods, in too large quantities. It is a failure of imagination when the only way a company or an individual can think of to improve the taste of a food is to add hot pepper.
FD should somehow make a book/writing connection here: let’s see. Perhaps the analogy would be the way in which writers of thrillers have to invent more and more bloodier ways for serial killers to injure their victims. Where is that going to end?