It is an irony pleasant to contemplate that the mechanism chili peppers evolved to defend themselves from being eaten by mammals is precisely why we like to eat them so much—but in a further twist, they're far more successful and widespread thanks to the fact that we grow them for food than they would be otherwise.
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Date: 2009-08-07 04:10 pm (UTC)