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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • ImWaitingForRetcons@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I dunno, seems to have worked out for the chillis - there’s more of them now than ever before

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    • Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s because evolution is a results-driven process. All that matters is making viable offspring. Doesn’t matter how it gets done.

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  • Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      meanwhile chinese cooking: i’ll have all 3 at once please

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      • rdrunner@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        And it’s so. Damn. Delicious.

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      • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        And Indian cooking! Curries are love. Especially with an immersion blender.

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  • hikuro93@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Life wouldn’t be the same without Tabasco. How could I ever eat my cotton candy without copious amounts of it?

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    • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m actually surprised that I’ve never found cotton candy coated with tajin, now that you mention it.

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    • Snowclone@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This is a low shenanigan…

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      • arrow74@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Are you calling shenanigans?

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    • Zerush@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Tabazco is for kids

      hot-headz.com/…/hell-unleashed-the-hottest-sauce-…

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      • hikuro93@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s not about quantity, it’s about quality. Tabasco’s refined taste all the way.

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      • MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Oh, your sauce is mild at best, you wanna try this instead…

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  • lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    How fortunate then that the same species resistant to their defense actually goes on to cultivate it

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    • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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      • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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      • lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • Pronell@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.)

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  • dditty@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Tobacco plants: produce nicotine, a toxic alkaloid

    Humans: imma smoke that shiiiiit

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    • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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      • Faydaikin@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Tobacco clearly has the last laugh in this story.

        Well, it’s not like we’re immortal if we abstain.

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      • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • Alexstarfire@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      We like our poisons in just the rights amounts.

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  • nihilist_hippie@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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  • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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…

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    • Rusty@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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      • 10001110101@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Valentina is my favorite. Both the black and yellow labels are good, but I like drenching shit with the yellow (milder one).

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      • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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      • Faydaikin@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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      • Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah, Tabasco is overrated. Get Louisiana Hot Sauce instead. A little less heat, but tastes waaaay better.

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      • queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Tabasco always tasted like a white vinegar mixed with capsaicin.

        Exactly! Delicious.

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      • dryfter@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • Kongpiler@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?

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    • Kongpiler@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Found the answer myself. Protects against fungal attacks. Also birds don’t have the same receptors to capsaicin.

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    • Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Birds eat them without feeling the heat. And they can spread seeds more effectively as you can imagine.

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    • chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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  • Sibshops@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If no eat, why so delicious?

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  • ScrotusMaximus@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If not delicious then why delicious shaped?

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  • malean@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Butt also go Brrr after eating to much spicy

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    • Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You get to enjoy spicy food twice.

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    • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Nope, pretty much just the mouth, over here, no butt or tummy brrr-ing.

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    • Camille@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Feature

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  • Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 disbelief Go on…?

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    • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • faberyayo@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Plant: “I will let you feel pain”. Humans: “Jokes on you, I’m into that shit”

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  • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What’s the sauce on the right?

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    • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • braydan@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Hot cock sauce

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    • felsiq@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sriracha sauce, it’s really good

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      • Madison420@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Very good though neither of those are very hot.

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  • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why is the chili wearing a cape? Or is that… hair?

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  • lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    In the meantime, birds be like: “ultrahot? nom nom fruity”

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  • Faydaikin@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sometimes it also makes your ass go brrrrrr…

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  • ceenote@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not brrrrr, more like kssss

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  • Alpha71@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I will never understand the attraction. I sometimes find Ketchup too spicy.

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    • sowitzer@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Some people just like the pain. I don’t mind it spicy, but the flavor is more important to me.

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