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- From: markg@hpmwtd.sr.hp.com (Mark Goldsworthy)
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 16:44:31 GMT
- Subject: Re: Red Hot Chili Peppers...(was: Colonic irrigations)
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- References: <1992Jul27.220104.5836@athena.cs.uga.edu>
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- / hpmwga7:sci.med / ark@alice.att.com (Andrew Koenig) / 9:43 pm Jul 27, 1992 /
- >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...)
-
- I heard that the reason why equatorial cultures have hot spicy food is too
- cover up the taste of rancid meat and vegetables. Vegetables, and especially
- meat, turn rancid quite quickly in tropical climates without refrigeration.
- Only by highly spicing the food was it palatable to eat two or three day old
- meat. Northern cultures tended to have blander food because the meat was not
- spoiled as quickly in the cooler weather.
-
- Mark Goldsworthy
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