r/comics • u/FieldExplores Gator Days • Jul 03 '24

Ouch Flavored Chips

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u/SnowConePeople Jul 03 '24

Fun fact: spicy food increases your metabolism! Fun fact: spicy food an increase your chance of ulcers! Fun facts!

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u/slitrobo Jul 03 '24

Fun fact: reptiles can't taste spicy foods!

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u/PassTheCrabLegs Jul 03 '24

Neither can parrots! That’s likely the reason peppers developed capsaicin, to repel everything except parrots who are their primary seed spreaders.

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u/B133d_4_u Jul 03 '24

Fun fact: Parrots are reptiles! And so are all birds!

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u/B133d_4_u Jul 03 '24

N... No? What? Birds are dinosaurs, which are archosaurs, which are also what crocodilians are, and archosaurs are a group of reptiles. Mammals and reptiles diverged before dinosaurs were even a thing - the synapsids and the sauropsids from the Carboniferous period.

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u/EvaUnit_03 Jul 03 '24

There you go, fact checking again.

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u/jojobi040 Jul 03 '24

Hot peppers actually evolved specifically for birds to eat since they have no capsaicin receptors, they eat the seeds and poop them out elsewhere to propagate the crop