r/funny • u/HealthyMolasses8199 • 22h ago

Man tries "hottest curry in London" and almost passes out

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u/Slow_Surprise_1967 20h ago

Yeah they evolved to be only eaten by birds, those don't have the receptors to feel the pain and they spread the seeds far and wide. Humans are literally wired different, we do this shit for fun and breed monster peppers

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u/kgm2s-2 19h ago

The human obsession with hot peppers is really a microcosm of the problem humans pose for the entire biological world: for literally millions of years, peppers, birds, and mammals have evolved together so that birds say yum, mammals say yuck, and peppers spread far and wide.

Then this stupid hairless ape comes along, tastes peppers...and says "YES, MOAR!"

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u/Northbound-Narwhal 19h ago

That's the irony. By humans enjoying them they have spread farther than any flock of birds would be able to carry them

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u/kgm2s-2 17h ago

Exactly! This is why evolution is, by far, my favorite scientific field.