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Hot Sauces: Pleasure in that Pain

Hot Sauces: Pleasure in that Pain

Not everyone likes chili peppers and hot sauces. And, even though we don’t fully understand them, it’s a lot easier to explain why someone wouldn’t like the burn of capsaicin than it is to summarize why you enjoy chilies.After all, why would you put yourself through that pain? If animals don’t willingly indulge in capsaicin binges, why would you? (Incidentally, this argument does tend to work often: animals don’t smoke, animals sleep when they need to, and such. It doesn’t work for teeth brushing, overeating, and hot sauces. There are also plenty of animals that willingly consume feces, so who...

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