Taste the flavor

8 months ago by FenrirIII to c/lemmyshitpost

kboos1 179 points 8 months ago

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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hydrashok 99 points 8 months ago

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?

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Passerby6497 84 points 8 months ago

Humans: YOU TWO PLANTS NEED TO FUCK, I NEED YOUR OFFSPRING TO BE HOTTER

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Junkers_Klunker 30 points 8 months ago

*Humans: YOU TWO PLANTS NEED TO FUCK, I NEED YOUR OFFSPRING TO BE HOTTER

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capt_wolf 28 points 8 months ago

Similarly:

Yeast: I'm going to eat all this sugar and produce a toxin that will kill off competing organisms!

Humans: HAHA! Funny juice make head all silly...

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the_beber 9 points 8 months ago

Well… it‘s also killing humans, so… plan worked ig?

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phcorcoran 15 points 8 months ago

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tomi000 5 points 8 months ago

It is not meant to ward off predators though. Being eaten is the goal, thats how the seeds are scattered.

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thevoidzero 28 points 8 months ago

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.

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darvocet 5 points 8 months ago

I eat a lot of pepper and I never poop out seeds. Nerd.

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Dojan 2 points 8 months ago

Not to get all up in your business but wow, you're being really lazy and disrupting the circle of life here buddy. You should poop more seeds.

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Dagamant 30 points 8 months ago

Maybe it’s just the mouth part we enjoy and the other we tolerate.

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orb360 24 points 8 months ago

Speak for yourself while I go boof some jalapeños

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Triumph 8 points 8 months ago

Just the tip. You don't have receptors in your colon.

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ButteryMonkey 46 points 8 months ago

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

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starik 10 points 8 months ago

I’m also going to raise my hand here to say I only enjoy mouth spiciness

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jmill 2 points 8 months ago

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.

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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 1 point 8 months ago

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.

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flying_sheep 5 points 8 months ago

There's also menthol and whatever compound is in Szechuan pepper.

OMG, now I'm craving Mapo Tofu.

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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 1 point 8 months ago

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?

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flying_sheep 3 points 8 months ago

Numbing kind of, but it more feels like vibration or “buzzing”, it's hard to describe

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Sterile_Technique 62 points 8 months ago
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capt_wolf 10 points 8 months ago

I'm reminded of this Uwos video...

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puppycat 3 points 8 months ago

uwo slab!!

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Gork 2 points 8 months ago

If you can feel the heat when it comes out, doesn't that mean we kinda... do? 🤔

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Sterile_Technique 4 points 8 months ago
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SnotFlickerman 55 points 8 months ago

Because I guarantee you that it no longer tastes like pancakes.

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BillyClark 26 points 8 months ago

On second thought, maybe I don't want tastebuds just inside my asshole.

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starik 7 points 8 months ago

That would be a creative curse

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drcobaltjedi 5 points 8 months ago

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.

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WarTowel 17 points 8 months ago

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LifeInMultipleChoice 16 points 8 months ago

I never remember what I ate last night for dinner, unless I've had corn

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Marthirial 7 points 8 months ago

Or beets, which for the first 10 seconds you think you have Ebola... And then ah, yeah, the beets!

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LifeInMultipleChoice 3 points 8 months ago

I do remember when I was a kid wondering what happened, then remembered I had a slurpee. (Blue Raspberry)

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Fedizen 44 points 8 months ago

This is absolutely not true, your butthole can also taste menthol.

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ouRKaoS 16 points 8 months ago

Menthol is just cool spicy

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SCmSTR 2 points 8 months ago

How many flavors of spicy are there?

Edit: just saw Qualia's comment directly below here

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Ruthalas 13 points 8 months ago

And ginger.

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qualia 19 points 8 months ago

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.

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SCmSTR 6 points 8 months ago

Yeah, but how many can your butthole taste?

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mustbe3to20signs 34 points 8 months ago

Spicy is not a flavor, but literally a pain stimulus.

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SCmSTR 6 points 8 months ago

Butt pain stimulus huehuehue

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pno2nr 27 points 8 months ago

They're even spicier when you put the pepper directly in your ass.

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TheGiantKorean 12 points 8 months ago

Did you know your urethra can also taste spicy? Try sounding a Thai chili pepper!

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DontRedditMyLemmy 4 points 8 months ago

Sounding?

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RememberTheApollo_ 11 points 8 months ago

A fetish where people stick things up their urethra.

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DontRedditMyLemmy 7 points 8 months ago

I will go to my grave assuming you are joking. No need for further detail.

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probablymissing 1 point 8 months ago

i will not fall into my grave until i find out if this was joke or not. there is much need for further detail.

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cloudskater 1 point 8 months ago
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HowAbt2day 9 points 8 months ago

Rubbing one around the balloon knot is quite affective if penetration is too much for you.

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texture 1 point 8 months ago

it took me a minute to finish deciphering this, glad i hung in there

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boogiebored 3 points 8 months ago

😩

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megopie 25 points 8 months ago

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.

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DevilsJaundice 3 points 8 months ago

All over, you say?

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megopie 2 points 8 months ago

Yes, this is why pepper spray sucks even if it doesn’t get in your mouth.

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Gumus 1 point 8 months ago

Warming massage oil also contains capsaicin.

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Washedupcynic 2 points 8 months ago

That compound is capsaicin.

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megopie 3 points 8 months ago

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.

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JoMiran 24 points 8 months ago

Become gluten intolerant and your wish will become a reality.

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enphurgen 18 points 8 months ago

Easy fix, just put spicy peppers in your pancakes

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texture 2 points 8 months ago

easier fix, just boof it

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qualia 3 points 8 months ago

Butt chugging: next season on Hot Ones.

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texture 1 point 8 months ago

im putting a reminder in my calendar now

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bearoftheisle 14 points 8 months ago

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

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some_kind_of_guy 16 points 8 months ago

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.

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JasonDJ 9 points 8 months ago

We already have an entire subset of people who are proud to eat shit.

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Karl 2 points 8 months ago

You wouldn't want to feel some sweet diarrhea?

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Xanthrax 11 points 8 months ago

I see we're having a debate about tasting shit. May I politely ask, would you like to "eat shit"?

Personally, nah.

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SCmSTR 5 points 8 months ago

To some, hilarity.

To others, science.

To others, horror.

To... Others.... Pleasure :(

I'm of the first three.

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SCmSTR 9 points 8 months ago

Your body absorbs all good flavors except spicy. Be happy.

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SCmSTR 3 points 8 months ago

Either that or some sick fucks of you here need to do some experimenting for all of us. For science.

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SCmSTR 5 points 8 months ago

I can see the headline now:

"World descending into World War III, meanwhile, obscure internet forum discovers horrible new way to diagnose illness"

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icelimit 3 points 8 months ago

Poop has always been a way to assess health.

Exhibit A: the groom of the stool.

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SCmSTR 2 points 8 months ago

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.

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fubarx 8 points 8 months ago

Tried making spicy pancakes. Would NOT recommend.

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JoMiran 8 points 8 months ago

Jalapeño and bacon pancakes are a thing.

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IDontEvenGoHere 6 points 8 months ago

I've made pancakes with maple syrup and chili crisp and it was delicious! Highly recommend.

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jambudz 6 points 8 months ago

Kimchijeon, haemul pajeon, dosas. All very good things

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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 2 points 8 months ago

mildly spicy okonomiyaki sounds great actually

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SlurpingPus 1 point 8 months ago

I bet something like cinnamon, ginger, cloves, or mustard would work alright with pancakes.

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TheHotze 7 points 8 months ago

So I'm scared to ask, but what do you mean your butt can taste spicy?

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texture 15 points 8 months ago

people who dont have a built up tolerance to hot spice just plain love talking about how their butts feel.

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Aljernon 10 points 8 months ago

I envy you that you've never taken a shit with your sphincter on fire and a tear rolling down your face

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MIDItheKID 9 points 8 months ago

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.

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rapchee 7 points 8 months ago

if you eat spicy enough food, it will sting on the way out too

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tigeruppercut 6 points 8 months ago

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).

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Echolynx 1 point 8 months ago

People who need to eat more fiber in their diet, most likely.

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JasonDJ 6 points 8 months ago

This is generally true for most people, but no. When you eat really spicy food, especially something that actually has hot pepper seeds in it...it may be spicy on the way out, too.

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wabafee 7 points 8 months ago

Personally no thanks I don't want to start associating food I ate as poop.

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jaschen306 5 points 8 months ago

I already HATE smelling my coffee and asparagus through my pee. I would fucking hate tasting my food a 2nd time.

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Zorsith 4 points 8 months ago

With the power of lactose intolerance, you too can regret certain non-spicy foods! Its usually pretty immediate though

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Battle_Masker 3 points 8 months ago

do you really wanna take a shit that's hot and sticky and doughy?

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swab148 1 point 8 months ago

Knead me, baby

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hOrni 2 points 8 months ago path: 0 22013959, hotness: undefined, score: 2, children: 0
nialv7 2 points 8 months ago

Because spiciness is literally heat. Capsaicin, the spicy chemical, literally activates the heat receptors in your skin.

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TachyonTele 2 points 8 months ago

psst, it's a joke

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meekah 7 points 8 months ago

Who would do such a thing? Posting jokes in a shitposting community?

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RedditRefugee69 1 point 8 months ago

Degenerates.

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