I was at the local blockbuster today and someone (an employee I can only assume) had taped a hand-written paper sign to the trashcan outside the main enterance. The sign said, quite simply, “Trash only”
This begs the question, what were people throwing away? Diamonds? Live animals? I mean, what CAN’T be considered trash?
2) Where are your taste buds for ‘spicy’. I know you’ve got sweet, sour, bitter, and salty, but I can’t see how any combination of those buds can tell my brain that my mouth is on fire when I bite into a raw jalapeno. Is spicy a chemical stimuli that doesn’t need its own taste buds?
Yes, there is a special chemical that makes spicy foods spicy. I can’t recall the name, however, and I’m just too tired to look it up. And, I suppose it doesn’t need it’s own taste buds.
And just so ya know, for me, biting into a jalepeno IS pleasurable. Although it may have something to do with me being a slight bit of a masochist.
And the taste sensors must be somewhere near your bunghole.
Not to be rude, but there’s gotta be SOME messed up physiology dealing with spicey food: There’s a bar that has, arguably, the best green chili in Denver (Brewery Bar 2), the stuff is AMBROSIA.
Sweat’s pouring off your forehead, the food is great, and it’s the only food with two requirements:
To borrow a boating phase, you’ve got to ‘come up on plane’ when eating the chili - The first few bites hurt, but after you breathe through the pain the stuff is truely fantastic.
It’s the only food I’ve known where I need to pre-medicate, I keep a box of Zantac in the deskdrawer for just such occasions…or at least I USED TO.
Which is where we get to the short circuit in evolution. The wonderous pleasure in EATING the food is far enough removed from the extreme pain in the removal of the processed chili from your system, it takes quite a while for a person to connect the two and stop eating the food to avoid the pain at the ‘end’ of the process.
Thanks, guys, Capsaicin was exactly the chemical I was thinking about last night. I was too tired to look it up, and for some reason the only word that would come into my head was caliente, which is just Spanish for spicy. My mind gets all messed up when I’m tired.
Actually, I was surprised that capsaicin wasn’t the first thing mentioned, since I’ve seen a few threads about the spicy foods… In fact, this is where I learned about it!
Anyway, if you want to know, on a scale of 1-2000000 of spiciness, capsaicin is 2 000 000. IIRC, the hottest pepper on earth is only 250 000 - 300 000.
I agree about heavily spiced foods, but when it is spiced just right it is still “spicy” and not ‘painful’, so I don’t get where that ‘taste’ comes from. I mean, you really CAN tell the difference between jalapenos and crushed red pepper, they have different tastes…hmmmm
And I agree that in a different context “trash only” can mean no-recycleables. Or as mentioned in a post up above “don’t throw movie returns in here”.
But , as there was NO recycling receptical anywhere in eyesite, I don’t think the 1st choice is true in this case.
And the second choice? god I hope it isn’t true or people are really big idiots. The trash can wasn’t one of those fancy metal ones with “blockbuster” written on it or anything. It was brown and crusty and dirty and had NO logo on it. Plus it wasn’t even directly next to the building. It was across the walkway. Who in the world would see it and think it was anything BUT a trashcan.
Oh, and the flavor thing is because they do have flavor, too. Capsaicin is not the only thing in spicy food. There is also flavor. So, while pain is not a flavor, there are different flavors that go along with the pain.
