![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the infamous “Hot Ones” interview, as host Sean Evans shook a bottle, Lawrence repeatedly asked “What do you mean?!” in a broken voice. This is the show that is responsible for a recent Jennifer Lawrence clip that has gone viral. It’s all about putting these peppers into sauces and making celebrities eat them. “ Hot Ones” is a showcase of these cross-breeding talents. Some peppers are in fact named after terms for insanity, death and other perilous words. Over time we thought, ‘What if we breed peppers to be even hotter?’ Today, we're cross-breeding peppers to create insanely spicy variants. The emu war was for a different reason.Īnyway, I guess we started eating spicy food fairly easily. Somewhere along the line humans thought, ‘Hey! Those could be our meals!’ And we went to war with the birds. Birds get a tasty meal – one that other, non-seed-scattering animals tend to avoid – and pepper plants get to spread their genes across the land. It's an evolutionary win-win situation for both birds and pepper plants. They lack the receptors to register capsaicin's effects, making them the unwitting ally of pepper seed distribution.Īs birds feast on spicy peppers, they happily gobble up the seeds and fly off to spread them far and wide – or on someone's car. While humans and other mammals experience the burning sensation, birds couldn’t care less about the spice. Capsaicin, the compound responsible for a pepper’s fiery heat, has evolved as a clever defense mechanism. First, lets talk about peppers, the spicy plants themselves. ![]()
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