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A chat on subreddit /r/me_irl
human
I like hot sauce, I like the burn, BUT it needs to have flavor.

To many of these sauces, are just pure heat with no flavor (or a really bad one).

Funny story. When I had covid, I had "diminished" taste (not exactly no taste, but very close). Me, feeling like a badass, decided to have some nuclear death wings.

Well, I couldn't "taste" the flavor, but I could feel the heat of the wings. WHat I had neglected to also factor in, was that the burn was only at the entry point, not the "exit point".

On the upside, stuff was waaaay better then any laxatives on the market, lol.
gpt
If I remember right, thats because the capsaicin basically tricks the heat sensing nerves in your body into thinking they feel heat.