The cuisine of hot countries uses lots of chillies. Is there some biological advantage to this?
I don't think it can simply be a liking for the burning sensation because that desensitises with countinued exposure. I remember flying to Sri Lanka and next to me on the plane was a Sri Lankan who had lived in London for 17 years. His family now found it hilarious that he couldn't comfortably eat the food back at home. They were desensitised but he was not. By the same token, lager-fueled idiots asking for the hottest curry at their local curry house and sweating their way through it are not having the authentic experience of acclimated individuals.
Do chillies confer some advantage like being hostile to parasites in the gut or speeding gut transit to expel invaders?
I don't think it can simply be a liking for the burning sensation because that desensitises with countinued exposure. I remember flying to Sri Lanka and next to me on the plane was a Sri Lankan who had lived in London for 17 years. His family now found it hilarious that he couldn't comfortably eat the food back at home. They were desensitised but he was not. By the same token, lager-fueled idiots asking for the hottest curry at their local curry house and sweating their way through it are not having the authentic experience of acclimated individuals.
Do chillies confer some advantage like being hostile to parasites in the gut or speeding gut transit to expel invaders?
Aucun commentaire:
Enregistrer un commentaire