April 5th 2007
Overall, hot and spicy food is stimulant. Peppers of all kind are stimulating the blood flow and elevate body temperature. For the people who live in a hot climate, like Caribbean islands or Africa, the boost in their body temperature can make them feel more comfortable as a result of thinning the difference between human body and the air temperature.
Peppery foods are also great appetite stimulant through ignition the flow of saliva and gastric juices, a nutritionally important effect for people in hot and wet climate Earth regions where the surrounding heat proceeds as an appetite suppressant. And, anecdotally at least, they act as an overall stimulant, producing a titillating, awakening effect and increasing the acuity of the senses.
April 5th 2007
As a final point of permanent consuming hot food, it could lastingly cut the sense of food taste. I often hear people assure others that they will get used to the burning of chili peppers. It’s true, people do feel less scorching after years of spicy abuse, but not because the body got “used” to the sensation in question.
Over time, taste buds wear out, making this reduced sensation nothing more than wear and tear of chronic abuse. It’s no different from people getting “used” to loud music in clubs — in both cases the body suffers permanent deterioration.
April 5th 2007
I once lived at a squatted house in New Orleans where I and one other street musician made lots of money busking, whereas all the other occupants were drug addicts without money or motivation to get any. I and the other street musician always shopped for our food and we tended to come home and cook cheese-filled meals- the local dumpster diving sucked- but we didn’t want to feed the other 8 drug addicts in the house. We just got ourselves into the habit of putting more and more hot sauce into our food, to the point where everyone else in the house stopped asking for some. It was an awesome way of dealing with the dilemma without looking like assholes.
April 5th 2007
My ex-girlfriend had a problem at work whereby co-workers sometimes stole each other’s food out of some kind of kitchen cubbie area without asking. One day she had brought wasabi peanuts to work. They’re large, lots of wasabi on them, and are bright green and don’t really look like any snack you’d be familiar with in a small Southern town.
Halfway through the day, she heard her co-worker shrieking in pain in the kitchen- this person had helped herself to Colleen’s wasabi snack without asking, having munched down on wayy too many peanuts for the heat, not knowing what she was getting herself into. Pretty damn funny.
April 4th 2007
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