devvyn

Je jouais tapageuse musique italienne en y insérant des chats dans mon hache-viande, comme je le fais chaque jeudi soir.  Généralement, je n'ai pas de problèmes, mais cette fois-ci, il s'agissait d'une catastrophe totale.  Voir, normalement, les os sont suffisamment mâchés.  Je mets en Heffie avec les autres chats et puis j'ai entendu un terrible bruit de grattage et de craquement.  Evidemment, ce chat n'a pas de simples os -- il avait mâts métalliques. En outre, il était plein de fils et de circuits.  Sans doute, Heffie a toujours été un robot.  En effet, ma hachoir est ruiné.  Inutile de dire que j'ai été très en colère.  Eh bien, telle est la vie.  Il est temps pour un nouveau passe-temps, je suppose.  *soupir*

I've recently become addicted to spicy foods.  And there may be some healthy benefits.  The article below does a poor job of citing sources but serves to illustrate a simple point.
http://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/news/ng.asp?id=69514-spices-pepper-obesity

There are multiple studies--some on humans and some on rats--to show biochemical effects of capsaicin on fat reduction within the body.

At any rate, all that aside, I think I'm really just addicted due to my tendency to take things to extremes.  It's gotten to the point now where I'm disappointed if I have to eat a meal without some kind of spicy ingredient.  I carry a shaker of black pepper and a bottle of hot sauce with me at all times.  When I plan my meals and snacks, in my mind I'm trying to choose foods that go with the hot sauce I have, rather than the other way around.  It's become a lifestyle for me.

I don't know how long it will last, but it's fun.  I found that after less than a week of adding hot sauce to every meal I had worked up a tremendous tolerance for spices.  I didn't even have to force myself to suffer extremely spicy dishes to get used to it--I just had to gradually let it build up in my system.  Whereas before I could barely tolerate a tablespoon-sized dash of chili sauce in on a plate full of chicken yakisoba I could now drink that same sauce straight if I wanted to after less than three weeks.  It really takes no special effort to reach that level.

However, having the tolerance I do, it's still fun to push it to extremes once in a while as a test.  I buy all the spiciest sauces and seasonings I can find and add them all to the same dish sometimes.  For example, I might get a cheeseburger or slice of pizza and add cayenne, black pepper, and Frank's Red Hot Xtra Hot all at the same time.  This rates as "pretty spicy".  If I add more my food drips.  I need spicier sauces.

I did have a bit of an interesting experience a couple times though by mixing activities.  I was deliberately over-spicing my food one night to the point where it was really quite agonising, but I continued anyway.  My face sweating, my mouth watering to cope with the irritation, and finally I started to feel a slight bit light headed.  I assume this was the point at which endorphins were starting to kick in, because at that point I didn't really notice the pain as much, and I was able to keep eating.  Well, to make things interesting, I figured I'd take a couple gulps of brandy that happened to be within reach.  The burn was a bit different, but what made it really interesting was when the alcohol started absorbing into my body.

I assume the mixture of dopamine from my brain due to the pain and alcohol hitting my system while I was in that state of vascular stimulation and raised body temperature was what caused the sensation that followed.  For the ten minutes that proceeded, I felt quite euphoric.  I became giddy and laughed out loud, eventually falling to the floor where I giggled and flailed my arms joyously, thoroughly reveling in the natural sensation of being overwhelmed with a mellow sense of well being.

Well, it sounds a bit embarrassing to explain it that way but hey, it was fun and presumably safe, and nobody was around to witness it, so I feel it was a noteworthy experiment with good results.  :-)  I was able to reproduce these results once after but failed on a third attempt.  I think the failure was due to an attempt to rush through it.  (I actually know very little about neurochemistry, so please feel free to offer a better explanation of what happened here if you know how to word it.)

In conclusion, good times.