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- From: young@serum.kodak.com [Rich Young (x37176)]
- Subject: Re: Red Hot Chili Peppers...(was: Colonic irrigations)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.160309.2789@pixel.kodak.com>
- Originator: young@sasquatch
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- Organization: Clinical Products Division, Eastman Kodak Company
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- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 16:03:09 GMT
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- >In article <2466@tau-ceti.isc-br.com> cecilw@access.isc-br.com (Cecil Williams) writes:
- >>
- >>While we're talking about worms here, I would like to throw out this
- >>highly speculative theory of mine for comment... Ever since my first
- >>trip around Asia and my first taste of hot (HOT!!!) curried chicken,
- >>I've had the idea that people in third world countries tend to eat
- >>extremely spicy hot food because the hot spices would drive parasites
- >>from the body (or kill them, or maybe just make them unhappy, and we all
- >>know how difficult it is to procreate when you're unhappy...) People
- >>who eat the hottest foods would therefore be the healthiest, and have
- >>the greatest longevity...
-
- I'm not an anthropologist (and I don't play one....well, you know
- how it finishes), but I was under the impression that, by and large,
- the use of spices became popular to hide the spoilage of the food
- and the resulting off-tastes, in days when refrigeration was
- unavailable and sterilization of food was unknown.
-
- This principle works especially well with Thai chili peppers -- a few
- of those and you can't taste anything for a week. And I've heard
- that no mayonnaise jar can remain resident in their "afterglow".
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