The pepper in the meme is already highly domesticated. The OG pepper is the chiltepin. They grow wild here in Texas and all over Mexico, and they're a woody perennial. They're tiny but hot af and great to dry and crush up or to make hot sauce with. I can get 200 off a single plant each season.
Well if you're going back millions of years to extinct species, sure lol. Glabarisculum definitely may be a landrace, but it's also still the likely progenitor of all extant Capsicum annuum varieties
People are fish. You're inventing strict definitions that do not exist 😂 And we don't even know that it's a landrace for certain, you just said you're "guessing" this
Psilocybe Cubensis: Behold, I contain compounds that greatly impair a brain's thought patterns and perception of its surroundings. This will deter organisms from consuming my fruiting bodies, allowing them to reach full maturity and drop their spores.
Humans: Yoooo there's that mushroom that makes you see God when you eat it!
Years ago one of my older cousins was looking after me and had a cabinet full of various hot sauces. Decided to challenge me to try all of them with crackers and see if either of us would give up. Neither of us gave up 😤. Da Bomb I remember quite well. Mean on its own. Taste not great, heat hits immediately with no build up. I can see why Hot Ones keeps using it lol.
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torlakur@szmer.info · 88 pts · 54d
Well, I guess the plant got what it wished for - it has been spread around the globe by humans.
protist@retrofed.com · 56 pts · 54d
One of the most successful species of all time
BurgerBaron@quokk.au · 40 pts · 54d
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protist@retrofed.com · 45 pts · 54d
The pepper in the meme is already highly domesticated. The OG pepper is the chiltepin. They grow wild here in Texas and all over Mexico, and they're a woody perennial. They're tiny but hot af and great to dry and crush up or to make hot sauce with. I can get 200 off a single plant each season.
lvxferre@mander.xyz · 22 pts · 54d
protist@retrofed.com · 7 pts · 54d
Well if you're going back millions of years to extinct species, sure lol. Glabarisculum definitely may be a landrace, but it's also still the likely progenitor of all extant Capsicum annuum varieties
lvxferre@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 54d
protist@retrofed.com · -2 pts · 54d
People are fish. You're inventing strict definitions that do not exist 😂 And we don't even know that it's a landrace for certain, you just said you're "guessing" this
lvxferre@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 54d
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 53d
I didn't know I was talking to Cannaflight M Aeroweed
lvxferre@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 53d
protist@retrofed.com · 0 pts · 54d
You just bothered real hard lol
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 53d
The original pepper was a fish!
protist@retrofed.com · 4 pts · 53d
It's fish all the way down
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 52d
I don’t want to live on this planet anymore
robocall@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 52d
You seem like an authority in the subject because you used the scientific names instead of the common names, so I'll take everything you said has fact
lvxferre@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 52d
jodanlime@midwest.social · 12 pts · 54d
20k-140k SHU is a big range, not the hottest around but it might be a bit like gambling! Habanero is around 150k so in the same ballpark.
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip · 34 pts · 54d
mother nature didn't expect anybody to evolve masochism
YoFrodo@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 54d
Humans: Let's add this plant's 'mammal deterrent chemical' to those bird's 'predator deterrent wings'. That'd be a tasty treat
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 53d
Hey that fruit looks like a giant scrote. Let's crush it and add deterrent chemical
GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone · 18 pts · 54d
Psilocybe Cubensis: Behold, I contain compounds that greatly impair a brain's thought patterns and perception of its surroundings. This will deter organisms from consuming my fruiting bodies, allowing them to reach full maturity and drop their spores.
Humans: Yoooo there's that mushroom that makes you see God when you eat it!
AbsolutelyNotSpez@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 54d
Me who got a stompy bottle of 'Da bomb beyond insanity' hot sauce for her birthday last year. 😅
thesohoriots@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 54d
I had a bottle of that stuff fall out of the fridge and break on the floor. Not a fun clean-up.
BurgerBaron@quokk.au · 4 pts · 54d
Years ago one of my older cousins was looking after me and had a cabinet full of various hot sauces. Decided to challenge me to try all of them with crackers and see if either of us would give up. Neither of us gave up 😤. Da Bomb I remember quite well. Mean on its own. Taste not great, heat hits immediately with no build up. I can see why Hot Ones keeps using it lol.
AbsolutelyNotSpez@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 54d
It's just pure rage in your mouth 😄
Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io · 10 pts · 54d
I've got scotch bonnet, habanero, and aji rojo pepper plants in the garden. Can't wait to make hot sauce this year. bouncing back and forth
cattywampas@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 54d
The most advantageous trait any plant or animal can evolve is being delicious to humans.
VonReposti@feddit.dk · 5 pts · 54d
Or cute. Take a look at how much we spend on trying to save the pandas.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 53d
Of kittens were going extinct, you better believe we'd do just as bad
X@piefed.world · 5 pts · 54d
Yeah but that endorphin rush tho
666dollarfootlong@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 53d
I love this version of this meme
Zephyr@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 54d
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UniversalBasicJustice@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 54d
Two varieties of Scorpion, a Peach Tiberius Mauler and a Dragon's Breath sunbathing in my backyard. Hail Capsaicin!
revoladeWT@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 52d
Technically worked lol