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shouldn't it be most humans? China and India and most of asia have chilli peppers and so does africa. It is the minority that cannot tolerate chillies. prior
by evnix 4y ago
shouldn't it be most humans?
China and India and most of asia have chilli peppers and so does africa. It is the minority that cannot tolerate chillies.
prior to chillies, black pepper, ginger and garlic was used and if used in appropriate quantities gives you a similar result. chillies are just a lot more economical to grow.
- robin_reala 4y agoSichuan pepper too; widely used across east Asia for a long time.
- qikInNdOutReply 4y ago? It was imported from the new world around 1700 so 300 years.. not really a long time, just as new as the us.
- biggc 4y agoSichuan Peppercorn is not a new world chili, and is endemic to Asia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanthoxylum_armatum https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanthoxylum_armatum
- eloisius 4y agoSichuan peppercorns, not chili peppers. Although I don't know why gp provided them as an example. They aren't the slightest bit hot, they just have a tingly numbing sensation and a nice flavor.
- tintedfireglass 4y agoginger, black pepper or long pepper could be a better example
- tintedfireglass 4y agoSichuan pepper is native to Asia and is a citrus species. it is an old world plant.
- Cthulhu_ 4y agoWhy do people refer to it as new / old world when it's been around and inhabited since forever? It's a weird misnomer, just like calling its inhabitants Indians, and just like calling countries 3rd world.
- qikInNdOutReply 4y agoIts pretty universal though, all people have preconceptions like that. Like chinese tourists, calling home the mainland and the inhabitants of the visited country "foreigners". Its more prevalent in huge countries or ex empires though. Super annoying when your country is small and you have to adapt to these wrong pre conceptions because the other side gets insulted, if you call them "just another country among many".
- tintedfireglass 4y agopick a chilli from a plant and eat it like how an animal would do in the wild. you'll want to jump into a pond after that. The chilli plant evolved in such a way that humans don't like chilli pepper. Humans used cooking and drying and diluting and other modern methods to reduce the ill-effects of spices and enjoy its flavors in small quantities.
- OJFord 4y agoI occasionally have them raw in salads, though more often pickled (still technically raw I suppose). Chopped up and cooked in something too of course. I don't think that's unusual of me.
- tintedfireglass 4y agoBut would you eat chilli peppers like how you'd eat other fruits and veggies? Say tomatoes or beets. No. ofcourse not.
- OJFord 4y agoI eat raw but pickled chillies far more frequently than raw tomatoes. (I never eat raw beetroot so I'll leave that, though I'm surprised people do. Or are 'beets' not beetroot?) I eat raw and not even pickled chillies in salads or on the side of a plate of other food at least as much as tomatoes the same way. More often pickled, but that's largely for convenience, in no small part for extra vinegary flavour, and not really at all to make them more mild. But I already said that above and you clearly don't believe me. I don't think it's uncommon either, fwiw, I'm not at all claiming to be unique or anything like it.
- gumby 4y agoWhen I was a kid we use to eat them by plucking them from a tree, dipping them in salt, and then devouring them. It was just something people did.
- idkwhoiam 4y agoWell you don't eat potatoes raw do you? Nor do you eat an eggplant raw and many others. I don't understand the argument here
- orangetuba 4y agoCan't tolerate? The world champions in chili eating contests are caucasian.
- Barrin92 4y agoI think that's less tolerance for spices and more just white guys being into weird frat house style competitions. I mean can you imagine a black Jackass
- boredumb 4y agoworld star
- unmole 4y ago
- bloqs 4y agoThis is uncharitable to the genetic diversity in the implied western competition. If there was a difference, it would express itself immediately
- unmole 4y ago
- samatman 4y agoWhat is the aim of your chaotic and pugnacious dialogue here? Is it to prove that foreigners aren't invited to the eat chiles championship? To get proof that there are not-white people in the US? Just being cantankerous?
- unmole 4y ago> What is the aim of your chaotic and pugnacious dialogue here? To point out the absurdity of this statement: > The world champions in chili eating contests are caucasian. You'll note that I did not bring race into the picture. Tolerance and preference for chilies in all probability has more to due with nurture than nature The OP decided that minority had an ethnic connotation.
- 2Gkashmiri 4y agoI live in the Indian subcontinent. As long as I can remember, I have HIGHLY DISLIKED eating spicy food to a point when my sibling and I were kids, there used to be 2 dishes for lunch/dinner, one for the adults and one for kids. This is VERY unusual in our culture because kids are, out of this "practice of cooking 2 dishes" that parents train their kids to "eat chilli" from when they are very young. They are "trained" from a young age. I probably had that done to me and they realized, "ah shucks. Let it be" and here I am today. I take milk with my dinner when the food is spicy because that has always helped me. The problem is, I am often ridiculed for not ensuring the spice of red chilli. The day before, my parents "challenged" me to eat dinner without chilli for a month because according to them, "our body wants chilli". Mine doesn't. edit: just to clarify, our spice cabinet in our home is an absolute monster, we have dozens of common and exotic spices which we use "on a daily basis" so even highly spicy food isn't the problem for me. "red chilli" in particular is troubling.
- HeyLaughingBoy 4y agoMaybe you have an allergy? For all of my life, I absolutely hated shrimp. Even smelling it from across a room would make me want to vomit. Then when I was in my mid-20's, I developed an allergy to crabs (which previously I loved) and I realized that reaction was the same I'd had to shrimp all those years.
- 2Gkashmiri 4y agouh, not "allergy" levels. i dont get anything troubling. i mean when i have food with lots of red chilli, i feel like i "dont want to stand the burning sensation". most people have a higher tolerance than me but i would prefer if it werent testing my tolerance. its not like i cant or wont eat food with boatloads of red chilli.... i have a relative who takes red chilli powder, mixes some water and takes that with plain rice. that's "comfort food" for him, not for me...
- nicolas_t 4y agoWhat's interesting is that even among cultures that eat very spicy food, some absolutely cannot tolerate it. I have a friend from Chengdu and some friends in Malaysia who cannot eat anything spicy. It makes it hard for them to eat food outside and they've had to learn by trial and error the restaurants that can actually limit the amount of spiciness.
- JohnFen 4y agoI've found that my tolerance for spicy depends entirely on the spice. Chili peppers? Intolerable to me. Even "mild" dishes are too uncomfortable, and anything spicier is impossible for me to eat. On the other hand, horseradish or wasabi is no problem even in high concentrations. Black pepper is no problem as well. It seems to me that there must be a biochemical reason for the differences.