Sunday 30 November 2008

A Ponderance: Chillis

Chillis are hot, i found this out as a young 'en when i asked my mum what this red powder is, she said lick your finger, stick it in the jar, then lick it again. Typically reluctant to do anything by halves, i used a teaspoon instead. i still have the burns :(
However, Chillis developed those hot little seeds to stop animals eating them, if you go by evolution, and i do. Cows would eat chillis, then run around in pain, and learn not to do it again. Chillis could then grow without fear of cows. However humans seem to like the burning pain conjured by chillis, and so we eat them purposefully because of the trait they developed to stop getting eaten, meaning that technique has not been totally succesful. However because humans like chillis, we farm them, we plant little chilli seeds and sell the chillis all over the world to other lovers of pain. Therefore there are now lots more chilli plants than there ever would have been if we didnt like them.
The big question this poses, is did chillis failure inadvertently act as more of a success as success would have done? or were humans part of the chillis plan for world domination? i mean, cows dont like chillis, but then cows dont have the capability of farming chillis. Neither do any other herbivores on the planet. Only humans have the capabilities of farming chillis, and only we enjoy the taste of chillis.

1 comment:

Achilles said...

this was on the front page of todays 01/12/08 igoogle in the 'google reader'