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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 it’s so. Damn. Delicious.
And Indian cooking! Curries are love. Especially with an immersion blender.
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.
This is a low shenanigan…
Are you calling shenanigans?
I have called shenanigans.
Tabazco is for kids, try this weapon grade sauce (9 millon SHU)
https://hot-headz.com/sauces/hot-chilli-sauces/hell-unleashed-the-hottest-sauce-in-the-world/
It’s not about quantity, it’s about quality. Tabasco’s refined taste all the way.
Have you tried cholula? It’s tobasco, but with flavor beyond the vinegar base. Often cheaper as well
Nope, but now I want to. Thanks.
Cholula is my go-to sauce that I can get anywhere for cheap. If I can get it, Blair’s Original Death Sauce is the way to go.
Shit, hard to find vinegar based sauces without vinegar as the #1 ingredient. Thanks for the recommendation! I’ve been using Melinda’s xxx hot, but it’s a pain to find. Feels like I’m playing hot sauce bingo, with all these “rare” sauces I’m juggling to stay sated
It is about quality, that’s why I freakin’ hate tabasco
It’s the Pabst or maybe Bud-light of hot sauces. I’ll use it if it’s the only option, but give me 5 bucks and 5 minutes at any grocery store, and I’ll find somthing better.
So your personal preferences dictate whether a product is good or not, and whether other people should also like it (“I do not like Tabasco, therefore its quality is shit”). Right. I’ll be sure to defer to you in my future personal tastes. 🙄
This is not a pissing contest about who can hold the most Carolina Reapers in. It’s a really subjective thing, which is why when the other commenter implied it was about hotness scale (which is valid foe those who go by it when choosing their preferred hot sauce), I personally go more by flavor. At least the other comment, while somewhat in condescending tone, was a way more productive opinion, backed with sources and actual measurements. 🤷♂️
Cheers.
I didn’t say anything about heat, just that tabasco is not a high quality sauce - It’s basically just red vinegar. If that’s what you’re into, enjoy. But you’re missing out on the good stuff if you’re settling for that
The quality is fine. It’s just vinegar, salt and peppers. It’s consistent and the peppers are aged in oak barrels. You may not like it and that’s fine too, I don’t keep it in my kitchen either, but it’s not low quality.
I used to like it, but more recently I’ve tried other brands and now tabasco just tastes bland in comparison. Last I bought it, I had to empty half the bottle in the dish and didn’t even taste it. I know they have different hotness scales, not sure if the one I bought was the hottest out there, but it was the hottest they had at the store.
What a bizarre comment. People don’t need to have what opinions are explained, do they?
Bizarre is hijacking jokes and memes to virtue-signal and crow about what you think is good or not. And don’t conflate personal opinions with objective quality, that’s the mistake many people make that triggers an explanation on what opinions are and their worth.
Do like the others and take that frustration elsewhere, as I didn’t engage with this meme post to battle semantics with frustrated reddit users. That’s my opinion for you and of you, do what you will with it.
Just pepper spray your mouth at that point.
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.
Well, it’s not like we’re immortal if we abstain.
I am
With a name like The Fartographer, I’m inclined to believe you. 👍
Until proof to the contrary, so am I
Let’s go fight in an epic clash of the immortals! First one to die, loses!
I dunno, it could go on forever
Every second I’ve lived so far, I haven’t died, so if we simply take that pattern and extrapolate it for each future second…
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.
We like our poisons in just the rights amounts.
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
Well, given that it’s supposed to be toxic rather than just painful, I’d say we’re resistant in that it takes a high dose to kill us.
i wouldn’t really count body mass as resistence, by that measure every single mammal bar perhaps the field mouse is resistant to basically every toxin.
You’d have to eat a lot of pure cap to kill you. Oral LD50 in mice is 47.2 mg/kg (source). For an 80 kg person, that’s 3780 mg of pure cap. 1000mg of pure cap dropped into a pot of chili would be inedibly hot even to the most hardcore spicy food fan.
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
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?
Found the answer myself. Protects against fungal attacks. Also birds don’t have the same receptors to capsaicin.
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
If not delicious then why delicious shaped?
If no eat, why so delicious?
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 disbeliefGo 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.
Butt also go Brrr after eating to much spicy
You get to enjoy spicy food twice.
Nope, pretty much just the mouth, over here, no butt or tummy brrr-ing.
Feature
Plant: “I will let you feel pain”. Humans: “Jokes on you, I’m into that shit”
Sometimes it also makes your ass go brrrrrr…
In the meantime, birds be like: “ultrahot? nom nom fruity”
Why is the chili wearing a cape? Or is that… hair?
