pain plant
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Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
meanwhile chinese cooking: i’ll have all 3 at once please
rdrunner@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And it’s so. Damn. Delicious.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And Indian cooking! Curries are love. Especially with an immersion blender.
hikuro93@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Life wouldn’t be the same without Tabasco. How could I ever eat my cotton candy without copious amounts of it?
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I’m actually surprised that I’ve never found cotton candy coated with tajin, now that you mention it.
Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Tabazco is for kids
hikuro93@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
It’s not about quantity, it’s about quality. Tabasco’s refined taste all the way.
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
How fortunate then that the same species resistant to their defense actually goes on to cultivate it
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
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.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
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.
lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
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.
Pronell@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There’s a book called The Botany of Desire, by Michael Pollan, which is about this. Looking from the plants eye view of things, they have manipulated us into growing them in a huge variety of environments. The book focuses on tulips, cannabis, apples, and potatoes, iirc. Fascinating book.
Two quick examples from the book:
Pot gets us high, now we grow it in closets, warehouses, yards, basements, attics, etc.
Apples don’t reproduce true from seed, so Johnny Appleseed brought readily available cider to the Americas. (You need a cutting of an apple tree to grow that type of apple.)
dditty@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Tobacco plants: produce nicotine, a toxic alkaloid
Humans: imma smoke that shiiiiit
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 2 months ago
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.
Faydaikin@beehaw.org 2 months ago
Tobacco clearly has the last laugh in this story.
Well, it’s not like we’re immortal if we abstain.
tetris11@feddit.uk 2 months ago
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.
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 2 months ago
We like our poisons in just the rights amounts.
nihilist_hippie@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
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
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Is it ironic that those two sauces aren’t really that hot? 😂
Delicious, yes! But very low on the Scoville scale for hot sauce.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Sriracha is now completely random from bottle to bottle. It goes from Tabasco to Carolina Reaper with no visual indicator. Turns out fucking over your loyal farmers and having to constantly scrounge has negative consequences…
Rusty@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Is Tabasco delicious? I find the Sriracha from couple of years ago delicious (the current one is much worse), but Tabasco always tasted like a white vinegar mixed with capsaicin.
10001110101@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Valentina is my favorite. Both the black and yellow labels are good, but I like drenching shit with the yellow (milder one).
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Tabasco sauce, and the peppers, are good for some foods, not so much for others. There is no ULTIMATE hot sauce, just what works.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
the only hot sauce i’ve yet to actually find appealing is sambal olek, somehow the heat in that just makes me salivate and kinda feels more like sourness, as opposed to everything else where it’s just pain and like… no real flavour? with sambal olek i can actually taste the flavour in it.
Faydaikin@beehaw.org 2 months ago
Yeah, Tabasco is the weakest link when it comes to hotsauce. Sriracha definitely is a step up, but even that has to move aside for the Buldak Sauce.
Buldak has become my go-to hotsauce. It’s so damned good.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, Tabasco is overrated. Get Louisiana Hot Sauce instead. A little less heat, but tastes waaaay better.
queermunist@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Tabasco always tasted like a white vinegar mixed with capsaicin.
Exactly! Delicious.
dryfter@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Kongpiler@lemm.ee 2 months ago
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?
Kongpiler@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Found the answer myself. Protects against fungal attacks. Also birds don’t have the same receptors to capsaicin.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Birds eat them without feeling the heat. And they can spread seeds more effectively as you can imagine.
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
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
Sibshops@lemm.ee 2 months ago
If no eat, why so delicious?
ScrotusMaximus@lemm.ee 2 months ago
If not delicious then why delicious shaped?
malean@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Butt also go Brrr after eating to much spicy
Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
You get to enjoy spicy food twice.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Nope, pretty much just the mouth, over here, no butt or tummy brrr-ing.
Camille@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Feature
Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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…?tetris11@feddit.uk 2 months ago
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.
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It’s sort of what happens though. A plant gets a defense mechanism, it becomes more abundant, something will target that abundant food source.
faberyayo@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Plant: “I will let you feel pain”. Humans: “Jokes on you, I’m into that shit”
jaybone@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What’s the sauce on the right?
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Huy Fong branded Sriracha. It’s the worst option because they fucked over their pepper suppliers so the quality is terrible now. Get any other kind of Sriracha and it’ll be better.
felsiq@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Sriracha sauce, it’s really good
Madison420@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Very good though neither of those are very hot.
tetris11@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Why is the chili wearing a cape? Or is that… hair?
lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 months ago
In the meantime, birds be like: “ultrahot? nom nom fruity”
Faydaikin@beehaw.org 2 months ago
Sometimes it also makes your ass go brrrrrr…
ceenote@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Not brrrrr, more like kssss
Alpha71@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I will never understand the attraction. I sometimes find Ketchup too spicy.
sowitzer@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Some people just like the pain. I don’t mind it spicy, but the flavor is more important to me.
ImWaitingForRetcons@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I dunno, seems to have worked out for the chillis - there’s more of them now than ever before
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s because evolution is a results-driven process. All that matters is making viable offspring. Doesn’t matter how it gets done.