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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The chemical is capsaicin, and it's a neurotoxin. That's why with repeated exposure you can start to gain resistance.
Birds are less sensitive to capsaicin, which made having it around seeds beneficial for plants. Birds eat the seeds and then spread them after flying somewhere else, but mammals are deterred from eating the seeds and they are poor vectors for spread because most mammals that eat large amounts of vegetable matter have molar teeth that aid in breaking down small seeds for digestion.
Until a certain mammal decided they liked the burn, and deliberately spread those plants further than birds ever did.
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
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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
you don’t taste your own digestive juices
Not taste, but I do feel when my dipshit stomach decides to flood itself with acid until I put something into it.
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I’m also going to raise my hand here to say I only enjoy mouth spiciness
argument: we normally think of five flavors (salty, savory, sour, sweet, bitter) but without spicy the meal is not complete. shit, some people consider slimy a flavor and that's fair.
...I'm actually quite thankful my anus doesn't have taste buds.
If you can feel the heat when it comes out, doesn't that mean we kinda... do? 🤔
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Because I guarantee you that it no longer tastes like pancakes.
On second thought, maybe I don't want tastebuds just inside my asshole.
That would be a creative curse
There was a web comic I saw years ago. Two dudes find a genie one of them wishes that the other guy has tastebuds in his asshole.
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I never remember what I ate last night for dinner, unless I've had corn
Or beets, which for the first 10 seconds you think you have Ebola... And then ah, yeah, the beets!
I do remember when I was a kid wondering what happened, then remembered I had a slurpee. (Blue Raspberry)
Tried making spicy pancakes. Would NOT recommend.
I bet something like cinnamon, ginger, cloves, or mustard would work alright with pancakes.
I've made pancakes with maple syrup and chili crisp and it was delicious! Highly recommend.
Kimchijeon, haemul pajeon, dosas. All very good things
mildly spicy okonomiyaki sounds great actually
With the power of lactose intolerance, you too can regret certain non-spicy foods! Its usually pretty immediate though
do you really wanna take a shit that's hot and sticky and doughy?
Knead me, baby
Because spiciness is literally heat. Capsaicin, the spicy chemical, literally activates the heat receptors in your skin.
psst, it's a joke
Who would do such a thing? Posting jokes in a shitposting community?