<story><title>Can you hurt yourself eating chilli peppers?</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20161020-can-you-hurt-yourself-eating-chilli-peppers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>huherto</author><text>Mexican here. I find it amusing that people focus on how spicy their peppers are.  They are missing the point. There are many pepper varieties and each has a different flavor. That is the interesting part and how it mixes with different foods in a variety of recipes. Focus on the flavor, not the burn.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>teaearlgraycold</author><text>The burn is an important part of the pepper experience. For some, building a tolerance to capsaicin is a hobby. They&amp;#x27;re not missing the point, they&amp;#x27;re just eating them for a different reason.&lt;p&gt;And what&amp;#x27;s nice about building up an extreme tolerance to capsaicin is that afterwards you are able to better experience the flavor of peppers, without focusing entirely on the heat.</text></comment>
<story><title>Can you hurt yourself eating chilli peppers?</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20161020-can-you-hurt-yourself-eating-chilli-peppers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>huherto</author><text>Mexican here. I find it amusing that people focus on how spicy their peppers are.  They are missing the point. There are many pepper varieties and each has a different flavor. That is the interesting part and how it mixes with different foods in a variety of recipes. Focus on the flavor, not the burn.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>M_Grey</author><text>I used to think that whole idea was crap, until I started seriously eating spicy foods. Now I really love the different flavors, not just heat, you get from peppers. Habanero are almost fruity, Jalapeno more like an amped up bell pepper, and so on. Then you have the differences in quality of burn; is it a numbing burn like szechuan pepper? A &amp;quot;back of the throat, choke you&amp;quot; burn like a Thai chili?&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a whole new world of stimulation!</text></comment>