…my butthole keeps burning but I never learn. It’s so damn delicious.
Can spicy food actually cause physical damage? Burns? Infections?
I remember how painful it was when I did my pepper spray examination. The teacher dropped a few droplets onto one of my closed eyes and then they told me to blink. It felt like somebody was trying to dig out my eyeball with a fistful of lit cigarettes. With a scoville level of 5 300 000, that’s not surprising…
Yes. Spicey foods can cause ulcers and can do some damage to intestines as well.
That’s completely fucking false
Not really, just heartburn and indigestion. Nothing permanent.
If there’s any truth to that it’s probably related to the acidity of hotsauces (and maybe pickled peppers), particularly eating it without other food. Noodles, which I’d imagine take on the PH of the water, probably not so much.
A quick search says capsaicin can stimulate the production of stomach acid, so the kind of person who does something stupid with a pepper or sauce might do so on an empty stomach as well (which I’d say is another issue).