[CH] Tracking

Byron (byronbromley@tellink.net)
Tue, 22 Jun 2004 18:51:35 -0400

Wesley, 

Odds are you will have a problem with your project. 

Until about the 1960's, Discretion was 90% of Valor. A True Gentleman did not write about, make movies about or discuss his licentious behavior. (Right Doug?)

Infidelity was also jail time,  until a polytic was caught with his pants down.. 

L.B.



 


I've decided to combine my love for chiles and my profession as a
social historian by writing an essay on the meaning of eating chiles.  

I've discovered a few references from the 19th century that are
intriguing.  A lot of dietary reformers believed that eating spicy food
would result in morally licentious behavior or that morally licentious
tendencies would be expressed by eating chiles and other spicy food!

Unfortunately I only have a few references.  I'm having trouble
tracking down references to chile eating from the 19th and early to mid
20th centuries.  What I do have is enough to speculate, but not enough
to say anything substantive.