RE: [CH] dogs and habs
Dan Turkette (dan@tekinteractive.com)
Thu, 19 Feb 2004 12:55:13 -0500
I think it is genetic, to a degree. I could handle about 50M SKU 8 years
ago, but now I cannot get it hot enough. I actually use ground hab as a
condiment like most people use pepper.
I think that over time you build up a tolerance to capsicum. My 13 year-old
son and I grow quite a large collection of peppers, with Habs being the
predominant choice. Every fall we make hot sauce and in the beginning he
wouldn't touch the stuff. Now he spoons it right out of the pot on the stove
while my wife won't even be in the house for fear of the fumes.
I have a 7 year-old black lab and he hates anything peppery, even black
pepper. Even now and then when he's begging for whatever I'm eating I toss
him something coated with either Jim's Red Savina, (my favorite) or dusted
with ground hab (yeah, I'm a sick puppy) and he goes bonkers for the next 10
minutes, you'd think he'd learn...
Regards,
Dan
www.americanspice.com
I think that hot sauce tolerance in genetic. Or maybe there is a hot
sauce chromosome in the back of the brain. Right next to the one for sex
drive or the need to drink an adult beverage now and then. I once met a 4
year boy who was addicted to Marie Sharp's mild.