Hit Deity on 26/11/2022 at 04:46
I'm not talking about jalapeño hot either, I'm talking Carolina Reaper hot, or Moruga Scorpion pepper hot...
Ever since I contracted Covid for the 2nd time back in June of this year (2022), I've been craving hotter and hotter peppers. It's now become a daily, and multiple times a day, desire to consume blisteringly hot pepper sauces or powders. If I'm not sweating and my lips aren't burning afterward, then it's not nearly hot enough for me. I have no idea if it's directly related to having Covid or not, but it was too much of a coincidence to not be linked somehow. I've not heard of this happening with anyone else, so maybe I'm just weird, I guess.
I bought over a hundred dollars worth of seeds back in July & August and soon had 58 peppers seedlings growing out of 60 planted: serranos, jalapeños, ghosts, trinidad scorpions, reapers, red savina habaneros, and others...
I soon lost about 4 dozen of them to a terrible tobacco mosaic virus infection when my son, who smokes, helped me transplant a bunch of them into bigger pots. I didn't know at the time, but pepper plants are highly susceptible to the disease, and there are things you can use to try and prevent it, but once an infection starts, it's usually fatal to the plants. I had extra seeds left over, so after managing to only save about 12 seedlings, I planted a bunch more and now have a nice little pepper patch going.
Just curious if anyone else is into hot peppers. Besides chopping them up in my breakfast eggs, sausage, and onion combo I like to eat, I plan to eventually start making hot sauces, maybe relishes, who knows what all, with them.
SubvertizingOrg on 26/11/2022 at 07:12
Yes. I am into hot peppers how did u know.
For $200 I will eat one of your red savina habaneros raw in one minute (with water afterwards).
I live in Eureka Springs, AR. Hit me up I need money right now seriously.
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SubvertizingOrg on 26/11/2022 at 07:15
I will also kick my ass to the pulp for $300. But that's not this thread.
demagogue on 26/11/2022 at 10:18
I know something changed with my sense of taste post covid. For that matter, I think every sense got mangled up in some way -- taste, smell, sight, hearing, touch, proprioception -- and it's had subtle effects in weird places. I can't say it's had anything to do with hot peppers though. I often add jalapeños to certain dishes I get here, but nothing crazy.
PigLick on 26/11/2022 at 11:17
did you have whats called long covid though? I have heard that people who have recurring symptoms have had this effect on taste.
rachel on 26/11/2022 at 11:27
Quote Posted by SubvertizingOrg
For $200 I will eat one of your red savina habaneros raw in one minute (with water afterwards).
Milk is better, the fat soothes the burns better than water could. That's why my fave dessert after a nice spicy vindaloo or tikka masala is a tall, chilled mango lassi. Best feeling ever.
demagogue on 26/11/2022 at 12:46
I had a pretty spicy curry today now that you mention it, eggplant and chicken, yeah with the naan and chilled lassi. It was great, but I made the mistake of eating a big cheese steak sandwich an hour before 'cause I was so hungry (not thinking that we were going out for lunch after our event today), and you don't want to do that. Too much!!
Quote Posted by PigLick
did you have whats called long covid though? I have heard that people who have recurring symptoms have had this effect on taste.
I
only had long covid. I never had anything flu-like. It went straight to the long stuff right from the get go.
Hit Deity on 26/11/2022 at 14:52
Interesting.. I've always enjoyed spicy foods, ever since I was fairly young (11 or 12 yo, or thereabouts) but this is on a whole new level. One of the other major differences is, I can actually taste the subtle differences between different pepper varieties now.
Like the Lemon Starrburst variety has a nice citrusy flavor, and so do ones like Peach Ghosts, Lemon Drops, White Faddas, Chocolate Naga Brains...
Quote Posted by SubvertizingOrg
For $200 I will eat one of your red savina habaneros raw in one minute (with water afterwards).
I can eat my own, and save my $200. I mean, I can almost buy a whole bag of artisinal (I mean organic) garden soil for that kind of money!!
Azaran on 26/11/2022 at 15:32
Big chili head here. I mostly stick to sauces, but I buy fresh peppers occasionally to pickle (ghost peppers and habaneros). I had a couple plants at one point (thai peppers, and a cayenne one that I planted), but both died.
By the way, if you handle a Satan's Blood bottle, wash your hands thoroughly with soap before going to pee. I learned the hard way
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https://i.postimg.cc/K8XKBM6r/IMG-20221126-103506.jpgSulphur on 26/11/2022 at 15:40
I'm from India. We literally eat chillies for breakfast.
Covid didn't fuck around with my sense of taste or smell. What it did do requires a novel, but that's a topic elsewise; I'm fortunate to be able to have huge honking amounts of capsaicin when I want it, whether it's crispy fried yogurt-soaked chillies to go along with lunch, or fried and served with salt as a condiment for something ridiculous like a buttery toasted bun with vegetables slider (the ubiquitous pav bhaji/vada pav), or stuffed and batter-fried for an evening snack. Each of those uses a different kind of chilli pepper, and yes, they're hot enough sometimes to weep at, both while you're scarfing them down and then the morning after.
Worth it, though.
