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It's sort of what happens though. A plant gets a defense mechanism, it becomes more abundant, something will target that abundant food source.
Is it ironic that those two sauces aren't really that hot? 😂
Delicious, yes! But very low on the Scoville scale for hot sauce.
Sriracha is now completely random from bottle to bottle. It goes from Tabasco to Carolina Reaper with no visual indicator. Turns out fucking over your loyal farmers and having to constantly scrounge has negative consequences…
I dunno, seems to have worked out for the chillis - there’s more of them now than ever before
How fortunate then that the same species resistant to their defense actually goes on to cultivate it
Oh, we’re not resistant, we’re just crazy enough to like the pain. Birds are resistant and don’t feel it at all, they can eat chilis like fruits.
It's just relative. Most mammals don't pay rent, taxes, or have to deal with the TSA. Once you do those things, spicy plant chemicals become a frivolous game.
I eat peppers just to feel something
There's a book called The Botany of Desire, by Michael Pollan, which is about this. Looking from the plants eye view of things, they have manipulated us into growing them in a huge variety of environments. The book focuses on tulips, cannabis, apples, and potatoes, iirc. Fascinating book.
Two quick examples from the book:
Pot gets us high, now we grow it in closets, warehouses, yards, basements, attics, etc.
Apples don't reproduce true from seed, so Johnny Appleseed brought readily available cider to the Americas. (You need a cutting of an apple tree to grow that type of apple.)
Life wouldn't be the same without Tabasco. How could I ever eat my cotton candy or cereals without copious amounts of it?
I’m actually surprised that I’ve never found cotton candy coated with tajin, now that you mention it.
This is a low shenanigan..
Are you calling shenanigans?
Tabazco is for kids, try this weapon grade sauce (9 millon SHU)
https://hot-headz.com/sauces/hot-chilli-sauces/hell-unleashed-the-hottest-sauce-in-the-world/
It's not about quantity, it's about quality. Tabasco's refined taste all the way.
Have you tried cholula? It’s tobasco, but with flavor beyond the vinegar base. Often cheaper as well
Nope, but now I want to. Thanks.
Every chilli sauce do it, the only difference is how spicy it is and the among of sauce you add to the food. A little spicy until a circulatory collapse and halucinations depends on the taste of each.
It is about quality, that's why I freakin' hate tabasco
So your personal preferences dictate whether a product is good or not, and whether other people should also like it ("I do not like Tabasco, therefore its quality is shit"). Right. I'll be sure to defer to you in my future personal tastes. 🙄
This is not a pissing contest about who can hold the most Carolina Reapers in. It's a really subjective thing, which is why when the other commenter implied it was about hotness scale (which is valid foe those who go by it when choosing their preferred hot sauce), I personally go more by flavor. At least the other comment, while somewhat in condescending tone, was a way more productive opinion, backed with sources and actual measurements. 🤷♂️
Cheers.
I didn't say anything about heat, just that tabasco is not a high quality sauce - It's basically just red vinegar. If that's what you're into, enjoy. But you're missing out on the good stuff if you're settling for that
The quality is fine. It's just vinegar, salt and peppers. It's consistent and the peppers are aged in oak barrels. You may not like it and that's fine too, I don't keep it in my kitchen either, but it's not low quality.
What’s the sauce on the right?
Huy Fong branded Sriracha. It’s the worst option because they fucked over their pepper suppliers so the quality is terrible now. Get any other kind of Sriracha and it’ll be better.
Hot cock sauce
Sriracha sauce, it’s really good
Very good though neither of those are very hot.
I'm good with hot food, to the point I actually occasionally use nasty sauces like the infamous Da Bomb on things I legitimately eat, but I'll never get people that say sriracha isn't hot.
Maybe I buy a special one or something, or it varies wildly from person to person, but i like to put a good juicy squirt of sriracha on my cheese sandwiches and it definitely still clears my sinuses quite effectively.
There’s really high variation between bottles after the pepper suppliers fiasco.
It's spicy but it's not really hot but I do think it might indeed be a palette thing.
Nothing actually said "hot" though
Tabasco https://www.tabasco.com/ #1 Hot Sauce Asked For By Name | TABASCO® Brand Pepper Sauce
Clearly hot sauce was never implied, not once.
Tobacco plants: produce nicotine, a toxic alkaloid
Humans: imma smoke that shiiiiit
Humans: I will now cultivate you, export you, protect you and make sure you're growing well so I can keep smoking you despite a 50% chance of dying from it.
Tobacco clearly has the last laugh in this story.
Tobacco clearly has the last laugh in this story.
Well, it's not like we're immortal if we abstain.
Every second I've lived so far, I haven't died, so if we simply take that pattern and extrapolate it for each future second...
I am
Until proof to the contrary, so am I
Let's go fight in an epic clash of the immortals! First one to die, loses!
I dunno, it could go on forever
With a name like The Fartographer, I'm inclined to believe you. 👍
If no eat, why so delicious?
Sometimes it also makes your ass go brrrrrr...
Not brrrrr, more like kssss