the cold version of spicy
Some call it minty
But also fresh somehow
I always think this about garlic, chilli, onion, etc. Feeling all tough, naturally designed to punish whatever’s just eaten it. Then humans be like, “OOOOO that’s yum. Add a bit more.”
We like plants that offer a challenge, apparently. We probably evolved to like these chemicals because we refused to be beaten and just ended up liking them.
plant: evolves chemical defense mechanism to stop it from being eaten
humans: ayo put that shit on my steak
animal: evolves to run away from predators as a defense mechanism
humans: ayo catch that it will go great with the evil plants
“animal: evolves to run away from predators as a defense mechanism”
humans: ayo, catch that shit and put it in circle with wood so they can’t leave, since, you know, they like to move. Also posts provide all their food and water and let them fuck to make more. Eat them with the evil plants.
Also humans:
ayo evil plants aren’t evil enough. Let’s make little more evil baby plants and from those even more evil baby plants and let’s name the really evil one after a combination of a U.S. state and death itself and then put that shit on the tasty movers
Things like onions, garlic, chili and spices have anti microbial properties. This is why warmer countries tends to have spicier food, it protect from food poisoning.
We also alter them by cooking them. Not too many people like eating raw onion or garlic
Being loved by humans is the ultimate evolutionary advantage, so at the end of the day, task failed successfully.
It’s probably some kind of weird reward effect in our brains. Like “Yay, whatever I just ate attacked me and I survived! Gimme some more of that!”
Evolution doesn’t always have a purpose. Random mutations + coincidence can result is some goofy results
I got menthol exfoliating soap gifted to me for christmas one year. I still have them in storage… because the feeling is so intense I only want to use it a few times a year, usually in summer. I mean this experience is so much sensation its like, holiday levels of memorable for me.
places hand over butthole, smiling nervously ‘Yes. I too use this soap for my… “balls”’
The most stolen soap by men.
I used to see them grab it and run out of the store with their hands in their pants.
Favorite soap ever was a peppermint body wash that came out one Christmas. Balls cool indeed. 🥶🥶
You might have fallen victim to Chris Tingle from Lush. My wife had some and I made the god awful decision to use some.
We just gonna ignore that the caveman has a nail through their bat/club? Talk about an immersion-breaker.
I did what now?
If Francis E. Dec made soap.
There are two kinds of people in this world:
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Chads who use Dr. Bronners for everything
It’s not even worth mentioning the second group. Fuck 'em.
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Nag champa soap tho. Doesn’t make you feel like you shoved an icecube up your asshole
but smells even nicer.It did work out for peppermint. Mint got humans to plant them en masse, which makes them very very unlikely to go extinct.
