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.
this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2026
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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 ~~PLANTS~~ NEED 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?
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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.
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I’m also going to raise my hand here to say I only enjoy mouth spiciness
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This is absolutely not true, your butthole can also taste menthol.
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?
Because I guarantee you that it no longer tastes like pancakes.
On second thought, maybe I don't want tastebuds just inside my asshole.
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I never remember what I ate last night for dinner, unless I've had corn
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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.
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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!
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Rubbing one around the balloon knot is quite affective if penetration is too much for you.
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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.
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.
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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).
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