Butt also go Brrr after eating to much spicy
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You get to enjoy spicy food twice.
Nope, pretty much just the mouth, over here, no butt or tummy brrr-ing.
Feature
HUMANS: Hey peppers, we like what you're doing, a-
PEPPERS: HOW‽‽ IT'S SUPPOSED TO HURT Y-
HUMANS: -nd we wanted to produce as many of you as we can in a controlled environment.
PEPPERS: ... Blinks in disbelief Go on...?
Well, not all of you. We'll massacre and purge your more moderate siblings and cousins, but we really like YOU, so we're gonna clone you as much as we can.
You're welcome.
It's funny if you think about it: Plant makes chemical (capsaicin) to help it thrive > humans love the painful spice, start growing and propagating peppers > Peppers spread grow like crazy. Evolution working exactly as it should
Why is the chili wearing a cape? Or is that... hair?
Plant: "I will let you feel pain". Humans: "Jokes on you, I'm into that shit"
I will never understand the attraction. I sometimes find Ketchup too spicy.
Some people just like the pain. I don’t mind it spicy, but the flavor is more important to me.
I dunno, seems to have worked out for the chillis - there’s more of them now than ever before
That's because evolution is a results-driven process. All that matters is making viable offspring. Doesn't matter how it gets done.
meanwhile chinese cooking: i'll have all 3 at once please
And Indian cooking! Curries are love. Especially with an immersion blender.
And it's so. Damn. Delicious.
Life wouldn't be the same without Tabasco. How could I ever eat my cotton candy or cereals without copious amounts of it?
I’m actually surprised that I’ve never found cotton candy coated with tajin, now that you mention it.
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How fortunate then that the same species resistant to their defense actually goes on to cultivate it
Oh, we’re not resistant, we’re just crazy enough to like the pain. Birds are resistant and don’t feel it at all, they can eat chilis like fruits.
It's just relative. Most mammals don't pay rent, taxes, or have to deal with the TSA. Once you do those things, spicy plant chemicals become a frivolous game.
I eat peppers just to feel something
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There's a book called The Botany of Desire, by Michael Pollan, which is about this. Looking from the plants eye view of things, they have manipulated us into growing them in a huge variety of environments. The book focuses on tulips, cannabis, apples, and potatoes, iirc. Fascinating book.
Two quick examples from the book:
Pot gets us high, now we grow it in closets, warehouses, yards, basements, attics, etc.
Apples don't reproduce true from seed, so Johnny Appleseed brought readily available cider to the Americas. (You need a cutting of an apple tree to grow that type of apple.)
Tobacco plants: produce nicotine, a toxic alkaloid
Humans: imma smoke that shiiiiit
Humans: I will now cultivate you, export you, protect you and make sure you're growing well so I can keep smoking you despite a 50% chance of dying from it.
Tobacco clearly has the last laugh in this story.
Tobacco clearly has the last laugh in this story.
One or two particular strains out of the entire vast diversity of tobacco plants is having the last laugh.
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If no eat, why so delicious?
Does anyone have an explanation for why they would evolve to prevent being eaten by mammals? I would think having mammals help spread their seeds would be beneficial?
Birds eat them without feeling the heat. And they can spread seeds more effectively as you can imagine.
Adding to the other responses, birds have simple digestion systems and the seed makes it into the poop, which birds do in flight so the seed will spread. Mammals digestive systems would destroy the seeds before they can spread
Found the answer myself. Protects against fungal attacks. Also birds don't have the same receptors to capsaicin.
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