"Is Mild Spanish for Not Hot", August 2012

 

For those of you that don't know, Roc loves salsa.  The other day we went to a local restaurant and started enjoying some chips and salsa.  Because Roc loves chips and salsa he had his own salsa that he was eating.  By the time the food came Roc had finished his salsa and wanted more so he asked if we could get more, we said that it was fine so he asked the waiter if he could have more salsa and the waiter asked if he wanted hot or mild and he said he wanted mild.  After the waiter left Roc turned to me and asked "is mild the Spanish word for not hot?"  We had a good laugh.  For those of you who are wondering the same thing I did check and found that it comes from several origins including: Old English, Germanic, Latin and Greek (notice no Spanish).