I don't understand how people do this, to be honest. Do you know how spicy food works? The receptor it triggers in your mouth is TRPV1, which does handle heat regulation and sensitivity, but it's also a pain receptor. Like, selectively removing it to treat the pain caused by bone cancer kind of receptor.

The kind of heat that sets it off is heat above 109F/43C, in addition to things like scorpion venom. Presumably it comes through as heat. Everyone tells me it feels hot. I don't get "heat." I get what is clearly agony in one of the most innervated areas of the body, and science backed me up on this.

Y'all are addicted to licking the curling iron and I'm the weird one

[–] StalinIsMaiWaifu@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It might be because I am also a bit of a masochist, but spicy food just taste better

Also you can build a tolerance for spicy food, I am in the unfortunate position that my mouth is much more tolerant than my ass (that I do not have the gene to digest capsaicin is a curse I levy upon my ancestors)

[–] Nepenthe@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That's the weird thing that got me just a couple minutes after posting this, and I just sat there for a while, staring into the middle distance.

I am a sadomasochist that needs my salsa to be mostly yogurt.

You can build a tolerance, I know. You're literally burning your pain receptors out temporarily. But the kind of determination I appear to need to get there. How am I the world's worst bitch

[–] JustAManOnAToilet@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

mouth is much more tolerant than my ass

Protein powder (I use the Orgain pea protein stuff) + banana + ice + milk/milk alternative all in blender. I don't question the dark magic of this concoction, I just appreciate it after going a little overboard with the scoville units.

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