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• torlakur@szmer.info ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Well, I guess the plant got what it wished for - it has been spread around the globe by humans.

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  • protist@retrofed.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    One of the most successful species of all time

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• revoladeWT@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Technically worked lol

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• protist@retrofed.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The pepper in the meme is already highly domesticated. The OG pepper is the chiltepin. They grow wild here in Texas and all over Mexico, and they’re perennial. They’re tiny but hot af and great to dry and crush up or to make hot sauce with. I can get 200 off a single plant each season.

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  • lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The “OG pepper” is likely already gone, since the Capsicum genus started branching off 17mya, way before we [humans] colonised the Americas. It was probably some species in the Andes, where you have the biggest clade diversity, including barely domesticated species, like C. chacoense; and wild ones, like C. eximium:

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    If I had to take a guess chiltepín is probably a landrace, a wild-ish descendant of domesticated C. annuum.

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    • robocall@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You seem like an authority in the subject because you used the scientific names instead of the common names, so I’ll take everything you said has fact

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    • protist@retrofed.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Well if you’re going back millions of years to extinct species, sure lol. Glabarisculum definitely may be a landrace, but it’s also still the likely progenitor of all extant Capsicum annuum varieties

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  • jodanlime@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    20k-140k SHU is a big range, not the hottest around but it might be a bit like gambling! Habanero is around 150k so in the same ballpark.

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• 666dollarfootlong@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I live this version of this meme

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• RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  mother nature didn’t expect anybody to evolve masochism

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• YoFrodo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Humans: Let’s add this plant’s ‘mammal deterrent chemical’ to those bird’s ‘predator deterrent wings’. That’d be a tasty treat

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Hey that fruit looks like a giant scrote. Let’s crush it and add deterrent chemical

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• GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  *Psilocybe Cubensis*: Behold, I contain compounds that greatly impair a brain’s thought patterns and perception of its surroundings. This will deter then from consuming my fruiting bodies, allowing them to reach full maturity and drop their spores.

  *Humans*: Yoooo there’s that mushroom that makes you see God when you eat it!

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• AbsolutelyNotSpez@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Me who got a stompy bottle of ‘Da bomb beyond insanity’ hot sauce for her birthday last year. 😅

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  • thesohoriots@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I had a bottle of that stuff fall out of the fridge and break on the floor. Not a fun clean-up.

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  • BurgerBaron@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Years ago one of my older cousins was looking after me and had a cabinet full of various hot sauces. Decided to challenge me to try all of them with crackers and see if either of us would give up. Neither of us gave up 😤. Da Bomb I remember quite well. Mean on its own. Taste not great, heat hits immediately with no build up. I can see why Hot Ones keeps using it lol.

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    • AbsolutelyNotSpez@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It’s just pure rage in your mouth 😄

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• Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I've got scotch bonnet, habanero, and aji rojo pepper plants in the garden. Can't wait to make hot sauce this year. bouncing back and forth

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• cattywampas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The most advantageous trait any plant or animal can evolve is being delicious to humans.

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  • VonReposti@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Or cute. Take a look at how much we spend on trying to save the pandas.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Of kittens were going extinct, you better believe we’d do just as bad

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• X@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yeah but that endorphin rush tho

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• Nangijala@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Tbf, humans are the least sensical animal om the planet.

  We are genuinely freaks of nature.

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• UniversalBasicJustice@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Two varieties of Scorpion, a Peach Tiberius Mauler and a Dragon’s Breath sunbathing in my backyard. Hail Capsaicin!

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• Zephyr@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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