Re: [CH] Moderate Corps Time Requirements
=Mark (mstevens@exit109.com)
Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:54:11 -0400
Yeah, that's pretty much my standard response to non-chileheads when they say
things like "He really likes the hot spicy food, he must have burned out all
his taste buds a long time ago."
They don't get that heat has nothing to do with taste buds, and that heat and
flavor are 2 different things.
As far as this goes, it is also the subject where Alton Brown made his biggest
gaffe in my opinion. In a show that involved chopping chiles he explained
that the heat from peppers was caused when capsaicin "Keyed In" to all the
taste buds simultaneously. He then went on to one of his little vignettes
that chronicled the result of his putting in a contact lens without thoroughly
washing his hands after handling chiles (Complete with anguished screams
echoing down the block). I guess it never occurred to him that his
explanation of why chiles were hot implied that he had taste buds in his
eye... :-)
On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:39:08 -0500, Jim Graham wrote
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 08:02:56AM -0400, =Mark wrote:
>
> > Now you claim that the rest of us immoderates don't prefer flavor over
> > heat?
>
> I don't think SandyO really believes that---she's having fun with us
> (and it's supposed to be mutually fun). :-)
>
> > Do you realize that when a resistance to capsaicin is achieved
> > that we simply don't particularly feel the heat?
>
> Or, put another way, as I've said all along, we all have different
> definitions of "moderate" and are all, in fact, moderates...just at
> different heat levels. :-)
>
> Or, to adapt/abuse a quote from "Animal Farm", "All chile-heads are
> moderate, but some are more moderate than others."
>
> Later,
> --jim
>
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