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I believe it’s a cheeky reference to humans intentionally cultivating hot peppers specifically because of their capsaicin-producing quality. :)
by jumhyn 2y ago
I believe it’s a cheeky reference to humans intentionally cultivating hot peppers specifically because of their capsaicin-producing quality. :)
- grimgrin 2y agoRecently Howtown talked about some of the theories: https://youtu.be/dutpBSKj8JY?t=196 https://youtu.be/dutpBSKj8JY?t=196 It looks at a couple non-competing (iirc) theories
- bobmcnamara 2y agoI do declare I thought it was a cheeky reference to those tomato plants that grown down by old railroad tracks. You see a long time ago, someone at a tomato. Could've been a slice in a cold sandwich. Could've been a fresh one, maybe with A little cheese and pepper. But chili just won't do. Neither would spaghetti. Then, before we had such regulations as we do today, they deposited that tomato seed, post digestion, in the train lavatory toilet. Being back then as it was, the tomato seed and associated fertilizer was dropped from the train car to the track ballast below where it germinated. It's the same process where researchers deposit tomatoes on new volcanic islands. You know what they say: when you gotta go, you gotta go.