Comment on Taste the flavor

kboos1@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• hydrashok@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • Junkers_Klunker@feddit.dk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • capt_wolf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • phcorcoran@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Image

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  • tomi000@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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      • Dojan@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • orb360@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Speak for yourself while I go boof some jalapeños

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    • Triumph@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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      • ButteryMonkey@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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).

        https://askabiologist.asu.edu/taste-outside-mouth

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  • starik@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• jmill@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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