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Because spicy is not a flavor. Spicy is more like an allergic reaction to a chemical that certain plants excrete as a defense mechanism. Humans are just weirdos because we enjoy our mouths and buttholes being on fire.
Plant: develops high amounts of capsaicin to ward off predators
Humans: ooh, this would be great with chicken!
Plant: am I a joke to you?
Humans: YOU TWO PLANTS NEED TO FUCK, I NEED YOUR OFFSPRING TO BE HOTTER
*Humans: YOU TWO
PLANTSNEED TO FUCK, I NEED YOUR OFFSPRING TO BE HOTTER
Similarly:
Yeast: I’m going to eat all this sugar and produce a toxin that will kill off competing organisms!
Humans: HAHA! Funny juice make head all silly…
Well… it‘s also killing humans, so… plan worked ig?
It is not meant to ward off predators though. Being eaten is the goal, thats how the seeds are scattered.
It is to ward off mammals. Their goal is to be eaten by birds, birds can’t taste capsaicin, so it’s just normal food. And birds distribute the seeds.
I eat a lot of pepper and I never poop out seeds. Nerd.
Not to get all up in your business but wow, you’re being really lazy and disrupting the circle of life here buddy. You should poop more seeds.
Maybe it’s just the mouth part we enjoy and the other we tolerate.
Speak for yourself while I go boof some jalapeños
Just the tip. You don’t have receptors in your colon.
Ooh I get to be that guy!
Acktachully, your entire digestive system is lined with taste buds! They aren’t hooked into your normal sensory awareness, so you don’t taste your own digestive juices the way you taste your mouth, but they are used for sensing things like spoiled food and spice! Those receptors can trigger ejection of material if it’s bad enough (diarrhea/vomiting, depending where in the tract it sensed bad stuff). That’s why sometimes after something very spicy, your guts burn.
https://askabiologist.asu.edu/taste-outside-mouth general info about digestive system taste buds
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23886384/ This one is specifically about taste receptors in the colon
I love this, thank you very much.
It’s an interesting fact.
you don’t taste your own digestive juices
Not taste, but I do feel when my dipshit stomach decides to flood itself with acid until I put something into it.
I’m also going to raise my hand here to say I only enjoy mouth spiciness
The chemical is capsaicin, and it’s a neurotoxin. That’s why with repeated exposure you can start to gain resistance.
Birds are less sensitive to capsaicin, which made having it around seeds beneficial for plants. Birds eat the seeds and then spread them after flying somewhere else, but mammals are deterred from eating the seeds and they are poor vectors for spread because most mammals that eat large amounts of vegetable matter have molar teeth that aid in breaking down small seeds for digestion.
Until a certain mammal decided they liked the burn, and deliberately spread those plants further than birds ever did.
argument: we normally think of five flavors (salty, savory, sour, sweet, bitter) but without spicy the meal is not complete. shit, some people consider slimy a flavor and that’s fair.
Spicy isn’t a taste or a smell, it is a sensation caused by the compounds lowering the threshold to activate of heat detecting nerves too below the ambient temperature of the human body. It’s basically making you burn your self.
Lots of other “flavors” are also like this, lowering the threshold of firing for certain sensory nerves. Sichuan pepper for instance, it lowers the threshold for movement sensing, causing the bizarre tingle waving sensation.
Those heat sensing compounds exist all over your body, not just in your mouth.
That compound is capsaicin.
Not always. Black pepper contains Piperine which also effects the TRPV1 sensing protein like capsaicin, if a bit weaker. Horseradish, mustard and wasabi have Allyl isothiocyanate which affects TRPV1 but also TRPA1 which triggers pain cold and itching response, leading to coughing and tearing.
There are a fair amount of other compounds that effect the TRPV1 and plenty of other similar receptors.
All over, you say?
Warming massage oil also contains capsaicin.
Yes, this is why pepper spray sucks even if it doesn’t get in your mouth.
…I’m actually quite thankful my anus doesn’t have taste buds.
I’m reminded of this Uwos video…
uwo slab!!
If you can feel the heat when it comes out, doesn’t that mean we kinda… do? 🤔
Feeling the heat comes from your capsaicin receptors, which are fortunately distinct from taste. It’s more of a pain receptor.
This is absolutely not true, your butthole can also taste menthol.
Menthol is just cool spicy
How many flavors of spicy are there?
Edit: just saw Qualia’s comment directly below here
And ginger.
Ginger is one of seven times spiciness has independently evolved: gingerol, allicin (garlic), capsaicinoids (chili peppers), allyl isothiocyanate (mustard, horseradish, wasabi), piperine (black pepper), eugenol (cloves) and alkylamides (Sichuan peppers, which are distinct from chilis). They’re all functionally pungent, but chemically distinct: meaning no single shared class.
Yeah, but how many can your butthole taste?
Spicy is not a flavor, but literally a pain stimulus.
Butt pain stimulus huehuehue
Because I guarantee you that it no longer tastes like pancakes.
On second thought, maybe I don’t want tastebuds just inside my asshole.
That would be a creative curse
There was a web comic I saw years ago. Two dudes find a genie one of them wishes that the other guy has tastebuds in his asshole.
Yep that’s it.
I never remember what I ate last night for dinner, unless I’ve had corn
Or beets, which for the first 10 seconds you think you have Ebola… And then ah, yeah, the beets!
I do remember when I was a kid wondering what happened, then remembered I had a slurpee. (Blue Raspberry)
They’re even spicier when you put the pepper directly in your ass.
Did you know your urethra can also taste spicy? Try sounding a Thai chili pepper!
Sounding?
A fetish where people stick things up their urethra.
I will go to my grave assuming you are joking. No need for further detail.
you asked, they told. simple as.
It’s usually done vith rods
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i will not fall into my grave until i find out if this was joke or not. there is much need for further detail.
It’s not a joke. I’m not personally into it, but a few people enjoy it.
Its real people both pleasure themselves and destroy their penis sometimes looked it up did not believe it was real
Rubbing one around the balloon knot is quite affective if penetration is too much for you.
it took me a minute to finish deciphering this, glad i hung in there
😩
I see we’re having a debate about tasting shit. May I politely ask, would you like to “eat shit”?
Personally, nah.
To some, hilarity.
To others, science.
To others, horror.
To… Others… Pleasure :(
I’m of the first three.
Easy fix, just put spicy peppers in your pancakes
easier fix, just boof it
Butt chugging: next season on Hot Ones.
im putting a reminder in my calendar now
I don’t think OOP has thought this one through, tasting things through my butt would be one of the last things I’d wish for
If our assholes had taste buds, you better believe there would be a whole category of dietary supplements aimed at making our shit taste good. Then there would be a backlash movement consisting of people who are proud to shit naturally and taste it.
We already have an entire subset of people who are proud to eat shit.
You wouldn’t want to feel some sweet diarrhea?
Your body absorbs all good flavors except spicy. Be happy.
Either that or some sick fucks of you here need to do some experimenting for all of us. For science.
I can see the headline now:
“World descending into World War III, meanwhile, obscure internet forum discovers horrible new way to diagnose illness”
Personally no thanks I don’t want to start associating food I ate as poop.
So I’m scared to ask, but what do you mean your butt can taste spicy?
people who dont have a built up tolerance to hot spice just plain love talking about how their butts feel.
I envy you that you’ve never taken a shit with your sphincter on fire and a tear rolling down your face
I like spicy things. I eat spicy things all the time. One time maybe 10 years ago I ate a “stinger” pie from a pizza place. It was a pizza with hot peppers and hot pepper oil. It was so spicy and so so good.
The events that occurred in the next 24 hours were something to behold. I was sitting on the toilet, sweating, shaking, and making my peace with God. It was an all day event. Full throttle.
Since then, my intestinal fortitude has been severely diminished. I have to be careful about eating things too spicy or it will mess me up. It’s like I built up a thick intestinal lining over years and years, and this one event tore down the walls. They were blasted out.
Life has not been the same.
if you eat spicy enough food, it will sting on the way out too
The anus isn’t unique in having bodily reactions to irritants (capsaicin), people just don’t expect things to not break down fully after they’re ingested. No one talks about being surprised that your eye or nostril gets irritated if you have hot sauce on your fingers (nor would they be surprised by a burning sensation from hot sauce applied directly to butthole).
People who need to eat more fiber in their diet, most likely.
This is generally true for most people, but no. When you eat really spicy food, especially something that actually has hot pepper seeds in it…it may be spicy on the way out, too.
I already HATE smelling my coffee and asparagus through my pee. I would fucking hate tasting my food a 2nd time.
Tried making spicy pancakes. Would NOT recommend.
I’ve made pancakes with maple syrup and chili crisp and it was delicious! Highly recommend.
Kimchijeon, haemul pajeon, dosas. All very good things
I bet something like cinnamon, ginger, cloves, or mustard would work alright with pancakes.
mildly spicy okonomiyaki sounds great actually
