Plant: develops high amounts of capsaicin to ward off predators
Humans: ooh, this would be great with chicken!
Plant: am I a joke to you?
Humans: YOU TWO PLANTS NEED TO FUCK, I NEED YOUR OFFSPRING TO BE HOTTER
*Humans: YOU TWO PLANTS NEED TO FUCK, I NEED YOUR OFFSPRING TO BE HOTTER

It is to ward off mammals. Their goal is to be eaten by birds, birds can't taste capsaicin, so it's just normal food. And birds distribute the seeds.
Ooh I get to be that guy!
Acktachully, your entire digestive system is lined with taste buds! They aren’t hooked into your normal sensory awareness, so you don’t taste your own digestive juices the way you taste your mouth, but they are used for sensing things like spoiled food and spice! Those receptors can trigger ejection of material if it’s bad enough (diarrhea/vomiting, depending where in the tract it sensed bad stuff). That’s why sometimes after something very spicy, your guts burn.
https://askabiologist.asu.edu/taste-outside-mouth general info about digestive system taste buds
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23886384/ This one is specifically about taste receptors in the colon
The chemical is capsaicin, and it's a neurotoxin. That's why with repeated exposure you can start to gain resistance.
Birds are less sensitive to capsaicin, which made having it around seeds beneficial for plants. Birds eat the seeds and then spread them after flying somewhere else, but mammals are deterred from eating the seeds and they are poor vectors for spread because most mammals that eat large amounts of vegetable matter have molar teeth that aid in breaking down small seeds for digestion.
Until a certain mammal decided they liked the burn, and deliberately spread those plants further than birds ever did.
argument: we normally think of five flavors (salty, savory, sour, sweet, bitter) but without spicy the meal is not complete. shit, some people consider slimy a flavor and that's fair.
There's also menthol and whatever compound is in Szechuan pepper.
OMG, now I'm craving Mapo Tofu.
whatever compound is in Szechuan pepper.
i ran out of coffee beans and tea just doesn't cut it are we talking a different spicy? is it that numbing effect some people get?
Numbing kind of, but it more feels like vibration or “buzzing”, it's hard to describe
Because I guarantee you that it no longer tastes like pancakes.
On second thought, maybe I don't want tastebuds just inside my asshole.
There was a web comic I saw years ago. Two dudes find a genie one of them wishes that the other guy has tastebuds in his asshole.
I never remember what I ate last night for dinner, unless I've had corn
Or beets, which for the first 10 seconds you think you have Ebola... And then ah, yeah, the beets!
I do remember when I was a kid wondering what happened, then remembered I had a slurpee. (Blue Raspberry)
Ginger is one of seven times spiciness has independently evolved: gingerol, allicin (garlic), capsaicinoids (chili peppers), allyl isothiocyanate (mustard, horseradish, wasabi), piperine (black pepper), eugenol (cloves) and alkylamides (Sichuan peppers, which are distinct from chilis). They're all functionally pungent, but chemically distinct: meaning no single shared class.
Spicy is not a flavor, but literally a pain stimulus.
Did you know your urethra can also taste spicy? Try sounding a Thai chili pepper!
Sounding?
A fetish where people stick things up their urethra.
I will go to my grave assuming you are joking. No need for further detail.
i will not fall into my grave until i find out if this was joke or not. there is much need for further detail.
Rubbing one around the balloon knot is quite affective if penetration is too much for you.
😩
Spicy isn’t a taste or a smell, it is a sensation caused by the compounds lowering the threshold to activate of heat detecting nerves too below the ambient temperature of the human body. It’s basically making you burn your self.
Lots of other “flavors” are also like this, lowering the threshold of firing for certain sensory nerves. Sichuan pepper for instance, it lowers the threshold for movement sensing, causing the bizarre tingle waving sensation.
Those heat sensing compounds exist all over your body, not just in your mouth.
All over, you say?
That compound is capsaicin.
Not always. Black pepper contains Piperine which also effects the TRPV1 sensing protein like capsaicin, if a bit weaker. Horseradish, mustard and wasabi have Allyl isothiocyanate which affects TRPV1 but also TRPA1 which triggers pain cold and itching response, leading to coughing and tearing.
There are a fair amount of other compounds that effect the TRPV1 and plenty of other similar receptors.
I don't think OOP has thought this one through, tasting things through my butt would be one of the last things I'd wish for
If our assholes had taste buds, you better believe there would be a whole category of dietary supplements aimed at making our shit taste good. Then there would be a backlash movement consisting of people who are proud to shit naturally and taste it.
I have sat here, staring at your content for far too long trying to figure out what groom may mean in this context. I've decided it means hairstyle, or visual-assessment condition. I will look it up and see if I'm right or I need to pluck my eyeballs out. Or both.
I've made pancakes with maple syrup and chili crisp and it was delicious! Highly recommend.
mildly spicy okonomiyaki sounds great actually
I bet something like cinnamon, ginger, cloves, or mustard would work alright with pancakes.
I like spicy things. I eat spicy things all the time. One time maybe 10 years ago I ate a "stinger" pie from a pizza place. It was a pizza with hot peppers and hot pepper oil. It was so spicy and so so good.
The events that occurred in the next 24 hours were something to behold. I was sitting on the toilet, sweating, shaking, and making my peace with God. It was an all day event. Full throttle.
Since then, my intestinal fortitude has been severely diminished. I have to be careful about eating things too spicy or it will mess me up. It's like I built up a thick intestinal lining over years and years, and this one event tore down the walls. They were blasted out.
Life has not been the same.
The anus isn't unique in having bodily reactions to irritants (capsaicin), people just don't expect things to not break down fully after they're ingested. No one talks about being surprised that your eye or nostril gets irritated if you have hot sauce on your fingers (nor would they be surprised by a burning sensation from hot sauce applied directly to butthole).
I already HATE smelling my coffee and asparagus through my pee. I would fucking hate tasting my food a 2nd time.
do you really wanna take a shit that's hot and sticky and doughy?
psst, it's a joke
Degenerates.
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Because spicy is not a flavor. Spicy is more like an allergic reaction to a chemical that certain plants excrete as a defense mechanism. Humans are just weirdos because we enjoy our mouths and buttholes being on fire.
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