…my butthole keeps burning but I never learn. It’s so damn delicious.

Can spicy food actually cause physical damage? Burns? Infections?

I remember how painful it was when I did my pepper spray examination. The teacher dropped a few droplets onto one of my closed eyes and then they told me to blink. It felt like somebody was trying to dig out my eyeball with a fistful of lit cigarettes. With a scoville level of 5 300 000, that’s not surprising…

    • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
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      13 days ago

      I love when an entire product gets banned, canceled, or reworked because of the actions of 1 idiot child. He had several pre-existing heart issues that should have made it obvious that he shouldn’t eat stuff that spicy. The chip didn’t kill him, Darwin did.

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    13 days ago

    Since no one else has asked: what the fuck is a pepper spray examination? That sounds horrific.

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      13 days ago

      It was awful. I was a correctional officer for four years and equipping pepper spray had just become compulsory. 🥵

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    Spicy food can’t permanently hurt you. It’s just your body’s reaction to a harmless chemical that it interprets as pain. Birds can eat super-hot peppers with no effect, because the chemical (capsaicin) has no reaction in their bodies.