• masquenox@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    As a chili pepper lover myself I absolutely do not get this garbage trope of treating chili pepper consumption as some kind of contest. The idea is to add heat to your food - not prove your pathetic “manliness.”

    In my opinion, anything above Habanero is just pointless masochism for no good reason at all.

  • MagicShel@programming.dev
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    5 months ago

    “Died of high chili consumption”? Is this actual English? Those words don’t seem to fit together that way. I feel like if this were a real thing, Thailand wouldn’t exist.

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      5 months ago

      It seems like a more accurate title would be “died of high capsaicin consumption due to a heart defect”.

      • Transient Punk@sh.itjust.works
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        5 months ago

        That’s still misleading. He died of a heart defect exacerbated by high capsaicin consumption.

        Any high stress event could have exacerbated the heart defect.