…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…

  • baggachipz@sh.itjust.works
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    5 hours ago

    Spicy food can’t permanently hurt you. It’s just your body’s reaction to a harmless chemical that it interprets as pain. Birds can eat super-hot peppers with no effect, because the chemical (capsaicin) has no reaction in their bodies.