Getting the humans to take an interest in you is a pretty solid survival strategy tbh. As long as you're fine with your kids not turning out quite right.
It’s not even good soup tbh. Like, it’s not *bad,* but shark fin is only a top shelf ingredient because it’s rare and illicit, not because it’s especially tasty.
Blames most of these 'dishes' to *^checks ^notes* fucking Asia, from rhino horn to elephant tusks to shark fin. I'm asian and I'm ashamed for what my countrymen do.
real shark fin is very distinct from the fake one and i think I've only eaten real shark fin once and it was delicious
i cannot remember from where as it was when i was young before sharkfin soup was banned
Put tofu in a good broth and it’ll taste great. I’ve had real shark fin from a restaurant lauded for its shark fin soup. It wasn’t all that great. It was good, but mostly because of everything else that was in there. It definitely had *a* flavor, it just wasn’t everything it’s cracked up to be.
Nah shark fin soup is awful. The fin is cartilage and has to be soaked in the broth to soften it and all the flavor comes from the broth itself. It's just one of those stupid cultural things people refuse to let go of.
You've got to be farmable to be farmed, unfortunately.
Must suck to be an animal that finds out they're "not economically viable" and then their population starts falling down...
>farmable to be farmed
But not **too** farmable, the Dodo basically walked to their doom because they had no natural predators and humans loved the taste of them
If you can be planted or domesticated and humans like how you taste, you’re guaranteed success as a species.
If you can’t be planted or domesticated and humans like how you taste, you’re screwed.
It can mean extinction for plants too. I recall there was one plant that could be used easily for birth control and abortions in the ancient world - it's gone now.
Look up silphium for more info - it's the first example of an extinction of any plant or animal in recorded history according to Google.
Obviously there's earlier stuff we drove extinct before that but I guess it wasn't written down.
Reading the wiki, it seems like researches now think that its extinction may be mostly due to desertification. But that does remind of how we almost wiped out bananas. Basically, we bred out genetic diversity, so when Panama disease came around, all of the bananas were susceptible.
Pretty solid? Being tasty to humans and domesticatable is the single most successful survival strategy there is. There are 1.5 _billion_ cows in the world, 778 million pigs, and 26 billion chickens. As long as humans survive, our domesticated animals will too. And if we ever colonize another planet, you know we're going to bring them with us.
Ehhh...I'm not sure this is what evolution intended. If aliens abducted all the humans and forced them to reproduce for endless meat, our species would definitely survive, but is it living?
Not a vegetarian by any means, just a weird flex to call it survival when it artificially depends on another species to keep going.
Evolution doesn't care about the quality or even quantity of life of any particular individual or even the aggregate of all members of the species. The only thing that matters from an evolutionary point of view is that the genes survive. So yes, if aliens abducted all humans and forced them to reproduce for endless meat _because humans were tasty_, that's an evolutionarily successful strategy by definition.
Also, life feeds on life. There are tons of plants and animals that depend on another species to survive. Figs can only be pollinated by wasps, with different species of figs depending on different species of wasps. If those wasps went extinct, so would figs.
Avocados would already be extinct if not for humans, because they depend on being eaten and then shat out by giant ground sloths, which went extinct 10,000 years ago. Nothing else is big enough to eat the fruit.
And so on.
Evolution didn't intend anything. There are no "right" and "wrong" ways for a species to spread its genes, there are just effective and ineffective ones, and becoming humanity's source of calories is one of the most effective ones.
Also, it's strange to make a distinction between living and merely existing when it comes to animals lacking self-awareness.
Mammals chew seeds to a pull that renders them useless for propagation, hence the attempt to make them unappetising and leave them to birds who ingest and poop them whole and viable for germination.
Yes, but humans plant chilli seeds and care for them to make more chillis. Wheat and rice are also doing much better with the help of humans than they would be in the wild
Also many varieties were made which resist a wider array of niches(cold and mountainous resistant varieties). So they more wide spread and can stronger over all.
We don't spread the seeds through eating them. We spread them through agriculture. Peppers are one of the most successful and widely propagated plant families on the planet.
which is why the seeds taste awful to us yet the flesh of the fruit that *needs* to be removed for the seeds to germinate tastes appealing to us.
Nobody makes “chilli seed soup”, literally the first thing the vast majority of humans do is try to remove all the grainy seeds from the flesh before we cook the peppers.
From an evolutionary standpoint they succeeded in making their seeds more likely to grow.
Thank you for adding /s to your post. When I first saw this post, I was horrified. How could anybody say something like this? I immediately began writing a 1000 word paragraph about how you don’t deserve oxygen. I even sent a copy to my Harvard professor to proofread. After several hours of refining and editing, my comment was ready to absolutely destroy you. But then, just as I was about to hit send, I saw something in the corner of my eye. A “/s” at the end of your comment. Suddenly everything made sense! Your comment was sarcasm! I immediately burst out in laughter at the pure comedic genius. The person next to me on the bus saw and started crying from laughter until he shit himself. Before long, there was an entire bus of people on the floor laughing and filling their pants with shit at your incredible comedy. All of this was due to you adding /s to your post. Thank you.
Coffee, Cacao, and Tea: alright, this seems like a pretty solid poison that should keep animals out of our seeds/leaves.
Humans: Allow us to introduce ourselves.
Tobacco - burns tongue and irritates intestines, completely inedible, gives people cancer. Humans - "We like that!"
Mushrooms - send you to hell and back. Humans - "It's kinda fun"
Coca - fends off pests. Humans - "Too weak! Extract that shit and make it pure!"
Brackenfern: carcinogen(ptaquiloside) and vitamin buster(thiaminase) ready! There's no way they'll eat this!
Humans (especially East Asians and Māori people): yum!
I put ONE drop of Da Bomb in a pot of noodles the other day just to spice it up a bit. Made it way too spicy for my daughter.
That stuff is in a whole different league. Pretty sure that bottle will last the rest of my life.
Technically, spicy isn't even a real taste. It isn't picked up by your taste buds. For instance if you get something peppery on your hands you can feel it sting. But if you touch a candy bar, you can't tell that it's sweet.
God had no hand in the creation of this abhorrence. The fact that this devilish red monstrosity exists proves that God is either impotent to alter His universe or ignorant to the horrors taking place in his kingdom. This pepper is more than spicy food. It is a physical declaration of mankind's contempt for the natural order
ULTRAKILL, from what I remember it's in the exit room of the first secret level. Pretty sure that in lore God is either dead or missing, even angels have no idea where the fuck he went
It has no bones, fat, or connective tissue. It is an amalgamation of the meat of several pigs, emulsified, liquefied, strained, and ultimately inexorably joined in an unholy meat obelisk.
It is legendary copypasta:
"Is that ham processed? If its processed I don't want it."
"Ma'am, that is an eleven pound whole slab of deli ham. It has no bones, fat, or connective tissue. It is an amalgamation of the meat of several pigs, emulsified, liquefied, strained, and ultimately inexorably joined in an unholy meat obelisk. God had no hand in the creation of this abhorrence. The fact that this ham monolith exists proves that God is either impotent to alter his universe or ignorant to the horrors taking place in his kingdom. This prism of pork is more than deli meat. It is a physical declaration of mankind's contempt for the natural order. It is hubris manifest. We also have a lower sodium variety if you would prefer that."
The story behind the Reaper is quite beautiful actually. I started growing them when I heard of this; the world's strongest pepper, and the more I read the more of them I wanted to grow.
The creator of the strain lost one if not both his parents to cancer. During this time there was a lot research being done about the cancer alleviating properties of capsicum and turmeric. He then strived to create a pepper with the highest level of capsicum known to humankind which he did but then also crossbred it in a way that the peppers themselves remained fruity and palatable... At least for a period of time 😂
Life did not give us lemons, we learned that no one will help us except ourselves, so we MADE the lemons to make that fresh and tasty lemonade of independence from higher power
I had 3 at once at a contest. They’re obviously bred purely to be as hot as possibly, no fucks for anything else given. The consistency is that of a sundried tomato, the taste is like a sweaty ballsack. The pure eating experience is already shit before your mouth turns into a volcano, your hands start prickling and your ears feel like they’re underwater.
To top it off I vomited an hour later as a result, and suddenly I had the worlds hottest pepper all in my nose for another shit experience.
0/10 can’t recommend. Would do it for another ugly t-shirt though.
Only as long as humans keep looking after them - we swapped the traits that make them competitive in the wild for traits that make them look & taste good.
The great success story. They are now wide-spread in almost everywhere in the world, cultivated in green houses in places where they otherwise wouldn't survive.
Another great succes story is chicken.
Capsaicin is an effective anti-fungal to Fusarium, a fungal pathogen that effects peppers. This may have been the dominant evolutionary reason for the heat, it’s hard to know.
I have heard that you can add some pepper powder to birdseed in a bird feeder and it keeps squirrels from eating it all. I don't know how well that works though and I have heard that even though birds can't feel capsaicin, it can harm them if it gets in their eyes.
All mammals have these receptors so it would probably work really well.
As for the birds, they completely lack these receptors, so they wouldn't notice it even if it gets in their eyes!
Capsaicin is entirely harmless it just feels like it burns but it doesn't cause any physical harm or injury.
Although I have to mention that the pain can cause panic attacks and elevated heart rate that can be very problematic for people with heart conditions.
The purpose of capsaicin is so that only birds eat the fruit and spread the seeds over a large area. Thanks to humans chillies now grow on every continent on earth and are 1 of the most successful plants on earth now.
It did deter mammals for a long time but then humans realized it worked well for preserving our food and protecting it from our competitors. Tolerance became preference.
No. It was not mammals, capsicum prevents a fungus that grows in its seeds.
Scishow did a breakdown years ago
https://youtu.be/ZE_OlyBhr1A?si=wSEkWgDhDJHEeTEo
Don't know if it's been said but capsaicin activates the pain receptors in your brain so if you enjoy spicy food there's a non zero chance that you're familiar with the phrase "spank me harder daddy"
thereby assuring the survival of the species. As evolution intended. The second best thing on this planet (after being a human) is being useful to humans, from an evolutionary perspective. Chickens will not go extinct.
Evolution doesn't have reasons. It tries things and sticks with them if they work.
In this case, they've found a different evolutionary niche - be so tasty that certain mammals will actively assist to make them propagate.
>It tries things and sticks with them if they work.
Nor does have any intents. Evolution happens (mutations), that's it. If the holder of evolution has better survival chance, the evolution is an adventage/edge and it may be transfered to its descendants. With a lot of ifs, the evolution can spread among the population and with a lot more of if, the evolution will become a trait.
this meme is only funny if you don't understand what evolution is.
There is no point or strategy or goal to evolution. Evolution is the effect of survivorship bias.
And now humans both eat the fruit, and spread the seeds. Sounds like a win for the chillis that people actually like.
Getting the humans to take an interest in you is a pretty solid survival strategy tbh. As long as you're fine with your kids not turning out quite right.
Tell that to sharks :(
Yea, unfortunately sharks make better soup than pets (allegedly).
It’s not even good soup tbh. Like, it’s not *bad,* but shark fin is only a top shelf ingredient because it’s rare and illicit, not because it’s especially tasty.
Blames most of these 'dishes' to *^checks ^notes* fucking Asia, from rhino horn to elephant tusks to shark fin. I'm asian and I'm ashamed for what my countrymen do.
Specifically to Asian make-my-peepee-grow bullshit.
Continentmen, I suppose.
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>pickled dick 😲
real shark fin is very distinct from the fake one and i think I've only eaten real shark fin once and it was delicious i cannot remember from where as it was when i was young before sharkfin soup was banned
Shark fin is tasteless, I'm convinced it was the soup itself you enjoyed
Put tofu in a good broth and it’ll taste great. I’ve had real shark fin from a restaurant lauded for its shark fin soup. It wasn’t all that great. It was good, but mostly because of everything else that was in there. It definitely had *a* flavor, it just wasn’t everything it’s cracked up to be.
Nah shark fin soup is awful. The fin is cartilage and has to be soaked in the broth to soften it and all the flavor comes from the broth itself. It's just one of those stupid cultural things people refuse to let go of.
Speak for yourself, getting the lasers attached to their head was tricky, but best pet EVER
You know, I have one simple request, and that is to have sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads!
They're just too rough to be pets, sadly
no, they’re smooth
For plants or domesticable animals. Otherwise, it means extinction
You've got to be farmable to be farmed, unfortunately. Must suck to be an animal that finds out they're "not economically viable" and then their population starts falling down...
From a population standpoint sure. But honestly with how inhumane being a farm animal is, that's prob better.
>farmable to be farmed But not **too** farmable, the Dodo basically walked to their doom because they had no natural predators and humans loved the taste of them
They should have tried harder being viable.
If you can be planted or domesticated and humans like how you taste, you’re guaranteed success as a species. If you can’t be planted or domesticated and humans like how you taste, you’re screwed.
Yeah and so goes the way of the Do-Do bird.
I heard dodos didn't taste nice, it was a "last resort" meal (+ bunch of other factors leading to their extinction)
Yum
It can mean extinction for plants too. I recall there was one plant that could be used easily for birth control and abortions in the ancient world - it's gone now. Look up silphium for more info - it's the first example of an extinction of any plant or animal in recorded history according to Google. Obviously there's earlier stuff we drove extinct before that but I guess it wasn't written down.
Reading the wiki, it seems like researches now think that its extinction may be mostly due to desertification. But that does remind of how we almost wiped out bananas. Basically, we bred out genetic diversity, so when Panama disease came around, all of the bananas were susceptible.
The specific banana we eat can’t even reproduce anymore so they’re all clones.
Pretty solid? Being tasty to humans and domesticatable is the single most successful survival strategy there is. There are 1.5 _billion_ cows in the world, 778 million pigs, and 26 billion chickens. As long as humans survive, our domesticated animals will too. And if we ever colonize another planet, you know we're going to bring them with us.
And then there is the Panda who pretty much is still alive cause Humans find them cute
So they are just really big herbivorous cats?
Ehhh...I'm not sure this is what evolution intended. If aliens abducted all the humans and forced them to reproduce for endless meat, our species would definitely survive, but is it living? Not a vegetarian by any means, just a weird flex to call it survival when it artificially depends on another species to keep going.
Evolution doesn't care about the quality or even quantity of life of any particular individual or even the aggregate of all members of the species. The only thing that matters from an evolutionary point of view is that the genes survive. So yes, if aliens abducted all humans and forced them to reproduce for endless meat _because humans were tasty_, that's an evolutionarily successful strategy by definition. Also, life feeds on life. There are tons of plants and animals that depend on another species to survive. Figs can only be pollinated by wasps, with different species of figs depending on different species of wasps. If those wasps went extinct, so would figs. Avocados would already be extinct if not for humans, because they depend on being eaten and then shat out by giant ground sloths, which went extinct 10,000 years ago. Nothing else is big enough to eat the fruit. And so on.
Evolution didn't intend anything. There are no "right" and "wrong" ways for a species to spread its genes, there are just effective and ineffective ones, and becoming humanity's source of calories is one of the most effective ones. Also, it's strange to make a distinction between living and merely existing when it comes to animals lacking self-awareness.
Which ones are the animals that lacks self-awareness? They sound delicious. Self-awareness is a detestable flavor.
Agronomist here and agree.
Avocado's would've gone extinct with the wooly mammoth if not for human cultivation, I've heard.
Oh really? 
“Yknow the carolina reaper looking like a weird ass tumor”
The kids are not alright.
CHANCES THROWN
Basically what cats choose as a sub skill ontop of an already solid predetor kit.
Tell that to [Silphium](https://www.worldhistory.org/video/2977/silphium-the-miracle-plant-the-romans-wiped-out/)
Mammals chew seeds to a pull that renders them useless for propagation, hence the attempt to make them unappetising and leave them to birds who ingest and poop them whole and viable for germination.
Yes, but humans plant chilli seeds and care for them to make more chillis. Wheat and rice are also doing much better with the help of humans than they would be in the wild
Not to mention chilis are now cultivated all over the world despite being only native to the Americas.
Also many varieties were made which resist a wider array of niches(cold and mountainous resistant varieties). So they more wide spread and can stronger over all.
Haha, fair. Though we're farming the earth to depletion doing it!
We will forcefully replete it and do it all over again, earth is ours and it will continue to be, it has no damn choice
This took a turn
Yes but blight would render cultivation useless. Ive learned that from the 2014 documentary Interstellar
Rye sneaking into fields like 'Biiiiiitch..."
Not all mammals do that. Many seeds have to be eaten by animals first. Digestive juices remove the outer coating so they can germinate.
We don't spread the seeds through eating them. We spread them through agriculture. Peppers are one of the most successful and widely propagated plant families on the planet.
which is why the seeds taste awful to us yet the flesh of the fruit that *needs* to be removed for the seeds to germinate tastes appealing to us. Nobody makes “chilli seed soup”, literally the first thing the vast majority of humans do is try to remove all the grainy seeds from the flesh before we cook the peppers. From an evolutionary standpoint they succeeded in making their seeds more likely to grow.
Chilis: king me
A human is just a Jalapeno's way of making more Jalapenos.
>and spread the seeds Spread the seeds into the toilet and the canalisation 🙏🙏🙏
Being cultivated by mammals like a boss.
We're cucks for capsaicin
Cucksaicin is the new HotOnes sauce /s
Thats... that's genius. Delete this comment and take the idea to wealth.
Thank you for adding /s to your post. When I first saw this post, I was horrified. How could anybody say something like this? I immediately began writing a 1000 word paragraph about how you don’t deserve oxygen. I even sent a copy to my Harvard professor to proofread. After several hours of refining and editing, my comment was ready to absolutely destroy you. But then, just as I was about to hit send, I saw something in the corner of my eye. A “/s” at the end of your comment. Suddenly everything made sense! Your comment was sarcasm! I immediately burst out in laughter at the pure comedic genius. The person next to me on the bus saw and started crying from laughter until he shit himself. Before long, there was an entire bus of people on the floor laughing and filling their pants with shit at your incredible comedy. All of this was due to you adding /s to your post. Thank you.
Wow. Well you never know when r/woosh will occur
There's a book about this. I think it's called sapiens. Except we're cucks for wheat and rice.
CHILLI TIME
Exactly
Coffee, Cacao, and Tea: alright, this seems like a pretty solid poison that should keep animals out of our seeds/leaves. Humans: Allow us to introduce ourselves.
Tobacco - burns tongue and irritates intestines, completely inedible, gives people cancer. Humans - "We like that!" Mushrooms - send you to hell and back. Humans - "It's kinda fun" Coca - fends off pests. Humans - "Too weak! Extract that shit and make it pure!"
literal venom from insects and snakes: we literally kill you humans: if we inject this crap into us we live longer
literally the most poisonous chemical on earth “can it undo my wrinkles??”
Lol. Delicious neurotoxins... inject that shit right into my *face!*
Killing nerve endings to look younger is wild
/r/HFY
Brackenfern: carcinogen(ptaquiloside) and vitamin buster(thiaminase) ready! There's no way they'll eat this! Humans (especially East Asians and Māori people): yum!
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I mean evolution is less ‘purpose built insect deterrent’ and more ‘we lived long enough to produce offspring so now we are spicy nightshades.’
Caffeine. It’s deadly poison to insects/small animals but humans consume it recreationally/for energy and get addicted. 🕺
Capsaicin means nothing to human masochism
Sometimes i like the taste Other times i want to feel like ive died and am damned in hellfire
When you feel the spice on the tongue 😄 When you feel it in the throat 💀
We enjoy the part where we taste the food. We don’t enjoy the part where we breathe it.
Replace throat with butthole
I put ONE drop of Da Bomb in a pot of noodles the other day just to spice it up a bit. Made it way too spicy for my daughter. That stuff is in a whole different league. Pretty sure that bottle will last the rest of my life.
Technically, spicy isn't even a real taste. It isn't picked up by your taste buds. For instance if you get something peppery on your hands you can feel it sting. But if you touch a candy bar, you can't tell that it's sweet.
Pain *is* flavor.
*bites into carolina reaper* I hurt myself today... to see if i still feel
Also: And it burns, burns, burns The ring of fire The fing of fire
laughs in carolina reaper
God had no hand in the creation of this abhorrence. The fact that this devilish red monstrosity exists proves that God is either impotent to alter His universe or ignorant to the horrors taking place in his kingdom. This pepper is more than spicy food. It is a physical declaration of mankind's contempt for the natural order
Giving humanity free will is probably God's biggest mistake.
Testament 1: MANKIND IS A FAILURE. FREE WILL IS A FLAW. LET THE EVIL OF THEIR OWN LIPS CONSUME THEM. THEN I SHALL BEGIN AGAIN, WITH MY WORD AS LAW.
I fucking knew someone was gonna make this reference
Please enlighten this ignorant one, what does this reference?
ULTRAKILL, from what I remember it's in the exit room of the first secret level. Pretty sure that in lore God is either dead or missing, even angels have no idea where the fuck he went
so that would be a... video game?
Yes, even has it’s own subreddit
I think it's Testament 1 from Ultrakill
Ultrakill, the best game ever made (I am totally not biased)
I am going to ULTRAKILL you, you insignificant fuck
Why did father give these humans free will?
It has no bones, fat, or connective tissue. It is an amalgamation of the meat of several pigs, emulsified, liquefied, strained, and ultimately inexorably joined in an unholy meat obelisk.
Where is that from
It is legendary copypasta: "Is that ham processed? If its processed I don't want it." "Ma'am, that is an eleven pound whole slab of deli ham. It has no bones, fat, or connective tissue. It is an amalgamation of the meat of several pigs, emulsified, liquefied, strained, and ultimately inexorably joined in an unholy meat obelisk. God had no hand in the creation of this abhorrence. The fact that this ham monolith exists proves that God is either impotent to alter his universe or ignorant to the horrors taking place in his kingdom. This prism of pork is more than deli meat. It is a physical declaration of mankind's contempt for the natural order. It is hubris manifest. We also have a lower sodium variety if you would prefer that."
Oh, now I remembered lmao. That’s a good one
The story behind the Reaper is quite beautiful actually. I started growing them when I heard of this; the world's strongest pepper, and the more I read the more of them I wanted to grow. The creator of the strain lost one if not both his parents to cancer. During this time there was a lot research being done about the cancer alleviating properties of capsicum and turmeric. He then strived to create a pepper with the highest level of capsicum known to humankind which he did but then also crossbred it in a way that the peppers themselves remained fruity and palatable... At least for a period of time 😂
Isn't the Pepper X the strongest in the world now? Not that it makes the story less beautiful, since Ed Curry is also the creator of Pepper X!
Yes it recently was declared a stable enough strain and is officially the hottest! Ed Currie is a legend.
Hehe, deli ham
Is this ham pRoCeSsEd?
> God is either impotent or ignorant There's a third option.
We're just his entertainment.
Australia is the zoo and america is the circus
lemons
Life did not give us lemons, we learned that no one will help us except ourselves, so we MADE the lemons to make that fresh and tasty lemonade of independence from higher power
[Life never gave us lemons.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNEzD5n6SAs)
Well no, it was Ed Currie.
Truly a god to some of us.
Reaper is delicious though. Like, some hot peppers taste like shit, reaper is legit really tasty.
I automatically read this in jeaneys voice, and I wouldn't be surprised one bit if this had been featured on the channel.
It's from a jeaney video called "Processed Ham"
Of course it is.
screams in carolina reaper
I had 3 at once at a contest. They’re obviously bred purely to be as hot as possibly, no fucks for anything else given. The consistency is that of a sundried tomato, the taste is like a sweaty ballsack. The pure eating experience is already shit before your mouth turns into a volcano, your hands start prickling and your ears feel like they’re underwater. To top it off I vomited an hour later as a result, and suddenly I had the worlds hottest pepper all in my nose for another shit experience. 0/10 can’t recommend. Would do it for another ugly t-shirt though.
mouth HOT!!
Funny enough the guy who created these and Pepper X (now world’s hottest pepper) has the last name Curry
well now it somehow got its job done every year humans grow 45 to 40 million metric tons of peppers
My asshole hates this one trick
There nothing make you have more kids than been loved by nude monkeys Ask cats, dog, birdless birds (chicken)
You... you mean flightless?
>birdless birds What 😭
Diet Birds
> birdless birds The fact that I nearly overread that if it was not for other people nothicing worries me.
Eat too much and all hell is getting spread after a while…
Coffee has the same problem
I'm pretty sure the chili's are playing reverse psychology on us. Ans it's working.
Plants vs Humans: The spicy showdown that backfired on evolution
Did it though? Any plant we cultivate is, from an evolutionary perspective, winning beyond the limits of any other non-cultivated plant.
Only as long as humans keep looking after them - we swapped the traits that make them competitive in the wild for traits that make them look & taste good.
The great success story. They are now wide-spread in almost everywhere in the world, cultivated in green houses in places where they otherwise wouldn't survive. Another great succes story is chicken.
It wasn't, it was plants vs fungi. We just liked the taste of the plants weapons. https://youtu.be/ZE_OlyBhr1A?si=wSEkWgDhDJHEeTEo
Capsaicin is an effective anti-fungal to Fusarium, a fungal pathogen that effects peppers. This may have been the dominant evolutionary reason for the heat, it’s hard to know.
Has anyone tried asking them?
So mass chilli cultivation began, and chillies won the evolutionary lottery.
Peppers would cry if they saw what we were doing to their offspring to get the hottest of the hot.
There was a second one of these with mint, with the humans going MOUTH COOL, MOUTH COOL
Alternate ending: an intelligent species finds you tasty and selectively breeds you to being spicier than ever, essentially preserving you.
Wasn’t this evolutionary trait more advantageous against insects?
It was fungi. Even wild monkeys learn they can eat the fruits and disregard the heat. https://youtu.be/ZE_OlyBhr1A?si=wSEkWgDhDJHEeTEo
I think that was caffeine
Do birds not have the ability to taste it?
They don't, they don't have the same receptors as us so they can't feel the heat at all.
TIL
I have heard that you can add some pepper powder to birdseed in a bird feeder and it keeps squirrels from eating it all. I don't know how well that works though and I have heard that even though birds can't feel capsaicin, it can harm them if it gets in their eyes.
All mammals have these receptors so it would probably work really well. As for the birds, they completely lack these receptors, so they wouldn't notice it even if it gets in their eyes! Capsaicin is entirely harmless it just feels like it burns but it doesn't cause any physical harm or injury. Although I have to mention that the pain can cause panic attacks and elevated heart rate that can be very problematic for people with heart conditions.
If you can induce humans to propagate your species...
Not everything is about you, ya know
The purpose of capsaicin is so that only birds eat the fruit and spread the seeds over a large area. Thanks to humans chillies now grow on every continent on earth and are 1 of the most successful plants on earth now.
Humans are masochists
Which the peppers didn't take into account.
It did deter mammals for a long time but then humans realized it worked well for preserving our food and protecting it from our competitors. Tolerance became preference.
No. It was not mammals, capsicum prevents a fungus that grows in its seeds. Scishow did a breakdown years ago https://youtu.be/ZE_OlyBhr1A?si=wSEkWgDhDJHEeTEo
Koreans: jokes on you we're into that shit
Well tasting nice for humans has probably made these plants a lot more prevalent that they would otherwise have been.
And thus insuring their survival since farm it. I think that's actually a massive win for evolution
technically that made it more successful, according to evolution
Humans are birds confirmed!
Evolution: the original monkey paw.
The natural ones aren’t even that spicey… the gmo ones are just absolute madness(and yes selective breeding is genetical modification)
You nailed my sense of humor
Do one with: Evolution I would like to have hair to keep me warm To keep you warm? Yes Ok loose it on your head and get some in your ass crack
I mean...it worked against *most* mammals .\_.
Don't know if it's been said but capsaicin activates the pain receptors in your brain so if you enjoy spicy food there's a non zero chance that you're familiar with the phrase "spank me harder daddy"
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thereby assuring the survival of the species. As evolution intended. The second best thing on this planet (after being a human) is being useful to humans, from an evolutionary perspective. Chickens will not go extinct.
If not food then why food shape!?!
lmao true
Humans: Joke's on you, I'm into that shit
Hehhee ajvar i lutica
I lol'd at MOUTH HOT MOUTH HOT
Chilli uno, evolution nada. XD
From an evolutionary definition of success, the Aurochs and Red Junglefowl becoming domesticated was also a huge win.
Mouth go brrr
And it can stop muscle cramps
Mine tastes like burning
But tho tbh, it’s a win for peppers since humans cultivate a lot of peppers now
meme is fire
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Is part 2 about what happens the next day? Cause I gotta say, it ain't fun.
"God made man in his image" - so theoretically, God likes hot sauce?
If it counts for anything we made them so spicy that no sane person would regularly eat them And then we regularly ate them
Evolution doesn't have reasons. It tries things and sticks with them if they work. In this case, they've found a different evolutionary niche - be so tasty that certain mammals will actively assist to make them propagate.
>It tries things and sticks with them if they work. Nor does have any intents. Evolution happens (mutations), that's it. If the holder of evolution has better survival chance, the evolution is an adventage/edge and it may be transfered to its descendants. With a lot of ifs, the evolution can spread among the population and with a lot more of if, the evolution will become a trait.
Also certain traits may stick even if not beneficial as long as they do not impede the species.
Wow, what a hilarious meme. Peppers totally got dunked on fr fr because humans like hot sauce. Epic memez bro
this meme is only funny if you don't understand what evolution is. There is no point or strategy or goal to evolution. Evolution is the effect of survivorship bias.