NYTimes Article: Pleasure in Pain of Chilies

I'm not one for spicy foods. There is a reason for it however. If you love something with a little bite, a little kick, then you're brain is the culprit--it's actually wired to get pleasure from your firey pain. Blame it on capsaicin, the chemical in the peppers that produces that hot hot ping, but blame it on your neural pathways for enjoying them.

"Chili pungency is not technically a taste; it is the sensation of burning, mediated by the same mechanism that would let you know that someone had set your tongue on fire"

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           A Perk of Our Evolution: Pleasure in Pain of Chilies