Chili Pepper News

It’s one of life’s biggest “arse” pains. Trying to navigate through life without staining your clothes, staining the carpets, staining your reputation. Life is hard enough and walking around with stains on your clothes is like a social sin - keep the hot sauce on your tacos, not on your shirt. But alas, it happens, stains happen and while we worry about wine and blood, sometimes that juicy, spicy, goddess of a sauce can creep on our shirts and carpets like that nerdy, socially-awkward co-worker trying to ask you on a date.

If only Pirates knew about the power of peppers… While the spicy peppers were a good source of Vitamin C to prevent scurvy, they also were later discovered that they help maintain the health of ships which would have come in handy when looking for buried treasures on the high seas.

St. Patrick’s Day is March 17. When you think of the green emerald isles of Ireland, you don’t normally associate it with peppers, however, Ireland has had its fair share of a run-in with peppers.

It’s no secret that hot peppers, more specifically capsaicin the compound in hot peppers that makes them so spicy can be harmful to mammals including humans if not consumed with care (make sure you use gloves while cooking with them). Animals can have allergic skin reactions to peppers if eaten or touched and of course be hard on their digestive systems as well. Birds, however, are immune to capsaicin.