• Iron Lynx
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    41 day ago

    HUMANS: Hey peppers, we like what you’re doing, a-

    PEPPERS: HOW‽‽ IT’S SUPPOSED TO HURT Y-

    HUMANS: -nd we wanted to produce as many of you as we can in a controlled environment.

    PEPPERS: … Blinks in disbelief Go on…?

    • @tetris11@feddit.uk
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      31 day ago

      Well, not all of you. We’ll massacre and purge your more moderate siblings and cousins, but we really like YOU, so we’re gonna clone you as much as we can.

      You’re welcome.

    • @Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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      123 days ago

      That’s because evolution is a results-driven process. All that matters is making viable offspring. Doesn’t matter how it gets done.

    • @sowitzer@lemm.ee
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      11 day ago

      Some people just like the pain. I don’t mind it spicy, but the flavor is more important to me.

  • @nihilist_hippie@lemmy.ca
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    132 days ago

    It’s funny if you think about it: Plant makes chemical (capsaicin) to help it thrive > humans love the painful spice, start growing and propagating peppers > Peppers spread grow like crazy. Evolution working exactly as it should

  • Hikuro-93
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    Life wouldn’t be the same without Tabasco. How could I ever eat my cotton candy or cereals without copious amounts of it?

      • Hikuro-93
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        53 days ago

        It’s not about quantity, it’s about quality. Tabasco’s refined taste all the way.

          • @frezik@midwest.social
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            22 days ago

            Cholula is my go-to sauce that I can get anywhere for cheap. If I can get it, Blair’s Original Death Sauce is the way to go.

            • IndescribablySad@threads.net
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              12 days ago

              Shit, hard to find vinegar based sauces without vinegar as the #1 ingredient. Thanks for the recommendation! I’ve been using Melinda’s xxx hot, but it’s a pain to find. Feels like I’m playing hot sauce bingo, with all these “rare” sauces I’m juggling to stay sated

          • @Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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            53 days ago

            It’s the Pabst or maybe Bud-light of hot sauces. I’ll use it if it’s the only option, but give me 5 bucks and 5 minutes at any grocery store, and I’ll find somthing better.

          • Hikuro-93
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            So your personal preferences dictate whether a product is good or not, and whether other people should also like it (“I do not like Tabasco, therefore its quality is shit”). Right. I’ll be sure to defer to you in my future personal tastes. 🙄

            This is not a pissing contest about who can hold the most Carolina Reapers in. It’s a really subjective thing, which is why when the other commenter implied it was about hotness scale (which is valid foe those who go by it when choosing their preferred hot sauce), I personally go more by flavor. At least the other comment, while somewhat in condescending tone, was a way more productive opinion, backed with sources and actual measurements. 🤷‍♂️

            Cheers.

            • Bilb!
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              22 days ago

              What a bizarre comment. People don’t need to have what opinions are explained, do they?

              • Hikuro-93
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                Bizarre is hijacking jokes and memes to virtue-signal and crow about what you think is good or not. And don’t conflate personal opinions with objective quality, that’s the mistake many people make that triggers an explanation on what opinions are and their worth.

                Do like the others and take that frustration elsewhere, as I didn’t engage with this meme post to battle semantics with frustrated reddit users. That’s my opinion for you and of you, do what you will with it.

            • synae[he/him]
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              43 days ago

              I didn’t say anything about heat, just that tabasco is not a high quality sauce - It’s basically just red vinegar. If that’s what you’re into, enjoy. But you’re missing out on the good stuff if you’re settling for that

              • @slackassassin@sh.itjust.works
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                53 days ago

                The quality is fine. It’s just vinegar, salt and peppers. It’s consistent and the peppers are aged in oak barrels. You may not like it and that’s fine too, I don’t keep it in my kitchen either, but it’s not low quality.

                • @SorryQuick@lemmy.ca
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                  33 days ago

                  I used to like it, but more recently I’ve tried other brands and now tabasco just tastes bland in comparison. Last I bought it, I had to empty half the bottle in the dish and didn’t even taste it. I know they have different hotness scales, not sure if the one I bought was the hottest out there, but it was the hottest they had at the store.

              • Hikuro-93
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                Damn, the irony and gaslighting, not to mention selective reading. And on such a small and insignificant topic, no less. Quite the teen behaviour.

                You’ll have to get in line and convince me if you want me to engage with your cheap attempts at proving yourself. Same for any other frustrated teen wanting to engage in keyboard warrior-ing.

                Don’t take it so hard, champ. This is a friendly and funny meme thread about spicy sauces. Such a shame to hijack jokes to derail it into pettiness like that. Reddit much? 🤔

  • @faberyayo@lemm.ee
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    52 days ago

    Plant: “I will let you feel pain”. Humans: “Jokes on you, I’m into that shit”

    • @Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      403 days ago

      Oh, we’re not resistant, we’re just crazy enough to like the pain. Birds are resistant and don’t feel it at all, they can eat chilis like fruits.

    • @Pronell@lemmy.world
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      103 days ago

      There’s a book called The Botany of Desire, by Michael Pollan, which is about this. Looking from the plants eye view of things, they have manipulated us into growing them in a huge variety of environments. The book focuses on tulips, cannabis, apples, and potatoes, iirc. Fascinating book.

      Two quick examples from the book:

      Pot gets us high, now we grow it in closets, warehouses, yards, basements, attics, etc.

      Apples don’t reproduce true from seed, so Johnny Appleseed brought readily available cider to the Americas. (You need a cutting of an apple tree to grow that type of apple.)

  • @Kongpiler@lemm.ee
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    93 days ago

    Does anyone have an explanation for why they would evolve to prevent being eaten by mammals? I would think having mammals help spread their seeds would be beneficial?

    • @chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      22 days ago

      Adding to the other responses, birds have simple digestion systems and the seed makes it into the poop, which birds do in flight so the seed will spread. Mammals digestive systems would destroy the seeds before they can spread

    • @Kongpiler@lemm.ee
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      153 days ago

      Found the answer myself. Protects against fungal attacks. Also birds don’t have the same receptors to capsaicin.

    • WIZARD POPE💫
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      82 days ago

      Birds eat them without feeling the heat. And they can spread seeds more effectively as you can imagine.

  • ditty
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    213 days ago

    Tobacco plants: produce nicotine, a toxic alkaloid

    Humans: imma smoke that shiiiiit

    • @Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org
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      233 days ago

      Humans: I will now cultivate you, export you, protect you and make sure you’re growing well so I can keep smoking you despite a 50% chance of dying from it.

      Tobacco clearly has the last laugh in this story.

      • @tetris11@feddit.uk
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        11 day ago

        Tobacco clearly has the last laugh in this story.

        One or two particular strains out of the entire vast diversity of tobacco plants is having the last laugh.

      • Feydaikin
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        63 days ago

        Tobacco clearly has the last laugh in this story.

        Well, it’s not like we’re immortal if we abstain.

        • @CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social
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          33 days ago

          Every second I’ve lived so far, I haven’t died, so if we simply take that pattern and extrapolate it for each future second…

  • @Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
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    113 days ago

    Is it ironic that those two sauces aren’t really that hot? 😂

    Delicious, yes! But very low on the Scoville scale for hot sauce.

    • @ayyy@sh.itjust.works
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      73 days ago

      Sriracha is now completely random from bottle to bottle. It goes from Tabasco to Carolina Reaper with no visual indicator. Turns out fucking over your loyal farmers and having to constantly scrounge has negative consequences…

    • @Rusty@lemmy.ca
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      53 days ago

      Is Tabasco delicious? I find the Sriracha from couple of years ago delicious (the current one is much worse), but Tabasco always tasted like a white vinegar mixed with capsaicin.

      • @10001110101@lemm.ee
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        43 days ago

        Valentina is my favorite. Both the black and yellow labels are good, but I like drenching shit with the yellow (milder one).

      • Feydaikin
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        32 days ago

        Yeah, Tabasco is the weakest link when it comes to hotsauce. Sriracha definitely is a step up, but even that has to move aside for the Buldak Sauce.

        Buldak has become my go-to hotsauce. It’s so damned good.

      • @shalafi@lemmy.world
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        43 days ago

        Tabasco sauce, and the peppers, are good for some foods, not so much for others. There is no ULTIMATE hot sauce, just what works.

        • @ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
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          Tabasco is my breakfast hot sauce. Goes on omelettes, sausage, etc. More flavor than spice, really, just a little kick.

  • @ryathal@sh.itjust.works
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    63 days ago

    It’s sort of what happens though. A plant gets a defense mechanism, it becomes more abundant, something will target that abundant food source.