…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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    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.

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    Since no one else has asked: what the fuck is a pepper spray examination? That sounds horrific.

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      It was awful. I was a correctional officer for four years and equipping pepper spray had just become compulsory. 🥵

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    As with all spicy food, if it’s burning your butthole it means (assuming you ate it normally through your mouth) that you haven’t digested your food properly. Eat more fibre, or something.

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    Eating Shin that was too hot for me is how I ended up building up my now robust spice tolerance from next to nothing. I’d have to go through two liters of water with each batch though when I first started.

    If you want an easier time though consider getting a less spicy one from the same company (nongashim) because everything they make is great and then add an appropriate amount of spicy chilli oil to it (like laoganma) or just use cayenne pepper powder if you can’t get any. You will get a more customizable spice level and you will get to try all sorts of other good flavors of ramen!

    Hope this helps! Cheers!

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      I love when an entire product gets banned, canceled, or reworked because of the actions of 1 idiot child. He had several pre-existing heart issues that should have made it obvious that he shouldn’t eat stuff that spicy. The chip didn’t kill him, Darwin did.

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    Damage? I hope not!

    I just made Caribbean rice and peas using homegrown dried habaneros. Great spicy heat!

    Except this time I mixed up my dried habaneros with my dried Carolina Reapers. Breakfast is now half portions with 2 pints of milk. Math says I added the equivalent of 19.5 habaneros to the dish intended for 6 serving. (Now 12)

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      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).