• Dharma Curious@startrek.website
      173·
      11 months ago

      I’m generally very uncomfortable around bathroom humor/topics, but i gotta know. Are people really suffering down there from spicy foods? I love spicy food. Like, it took many, many visits before i convinced the indian restaurant near us to give me genuinely spicy food. Now they make it like they make it for themselves.

      And don’t get me wrong, I’ve had the burning booty of death before, but the two things aren’t really linked. Like, spiciness has no impact on my bathrooming. I only ever get the burn down there if I’m sick. Is this seriously a problem people have when they so much as smell a bell pepper, as the internet has led me to believe?

      • Sekrayray@lemmy.world
        10·
        11 months ago

        It’s really weird, but as I’ve aged spicy food has really begun to bother me. I absolutely LOVE how it tastes in my mouth—even the hottest levels of heat are enjoyable to me.

        I’d say around the age of 25 it started bothering me some. Then it got worse as I approached 30. Now in my early 30s I can hardly eat anything that’s above “mild” without GI distress several hours later. I’m talking about a horrible burning sensation in my abdomen where it feels as though I can actually track the food moving through my GI tract. The next day I feel ill enough on the toilet that I have to make sure I don’t have plans for the first 1-2 hours of my day.

        It’s super sad because I love spicy food, but it’s not worth the payback. I myself work in healthcare and I’ve searched and searched for something that can physiologically explain that phenomenon (getting worse over the years) and there’s not really anything explained in the literature. All I can think of is something to do with changes in GI flora.

        • slaacaa@lemmy.world
          2·
          11 months ago

          Yes, it’s an age thing. Even a few years ago I was impressing my asian colleagues with how much I can take, and regularly ate ghost chili and carolina reapers for fun with friends.

          Now at 35, had/have some problems down there, and the doctor told me to lay off spicy food, as I had a minor inflammation of my colon.

          Same conclusion as you, I love it, but it’s just not worth it. Good news though: I heard that it’s really just a tolerance building thing, so if I stay off really spicy foods for a while, then I should be able to enjoy light spices later.

        • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          Yeah mine has gotten worse over time as well. When I was a teenager, I could eat anything. Now if I get a half scoop of the Chipotle hot salsa on my burrito, I’ll start feeling it 3 or 4 hours later. It sucks.

        • azertyfun@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          11 months ago

          Because it’s so hard to believe that some people’s digestive systems work differently. Gut microflora is notoriously undiverse in humans. Surely the more likely explanation is that the person you’re responding to managed to go their whole life without ever eating spicy food despite actively seeking it out. /s

          Maybe there’s a spice level at which I’d get bad shits, but I haven’t gotten so much as a tingle yet and I already have the highest tolerance than any white guy I know. You can be a spice snob and say “you haven’t met my guy Rajesh yet”, but almost no-one saying “spice gives me bad shits” has met Rajesh either so I don’t see the point.

          • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
            21·
            11 months ago

            As I replied in another comment, do an “hot ones” evening going all the way up to 1m SHU and tell me your ass came out ok.

        • ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          11 months ago

          Just made salsa last night.

          4 tomato 1 onion 1 bunch of cilantro 1 lime 6 Serrano 6 jalapeño 6 habanero Salt

          That’s about 1 habanero per small bowl. Most people wouldn’t eat a full habanero, or even taste that salsa.

          Never had an issue internally with spicy food.

      • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world
        41·
        11 months ago

        It has never happened to me and I’m a spice fiend too. I’ve never gotten diarrhea from Mexican food either.

        • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
          21·
          11 months ago

          My girlfriend felt the same way until we had a “Hot Ones” party where the spiciest sauce was 750 000 SHU. She went to the bathroom the next morning and I just heard “Ooooooooooooh”…

      • ngdev@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        11 months ago

        As someone who thinks the “Last Dab” sauces from Hot Ones aren’t spicy enough, no. Your body adapts. I only burn my hole if I eat something that’s too salty now.

    • Wanderer@lemm.ee
      1·
      11 months ago

      I weirdly had this issue but over the years I have continued to eat hotter and hotter food and the arsehole issue has gone away completely. Unless I get the shits for some other unrelated reason.

  • avater@lemmy.world
    9·
    11 months ago

    Good, hot food has to burn thrice: During eating, when you are on the toilet and also in the eyes of the canalworker in the end.

    • Ephera@lemmy.ml
      6·
      11 months ago

      Because spicyness isn’t really a taste, it’s rather just pain. The various spicy chemicals (capsaicin, piperine, curcumin etc.) essentially just irritate your skin.

      • Siethron@lemmy.world
        2·
        11 months ago

        Taste? Kinda bland, unless it’s spicy, you don’t have smell receptors at the asshole so the disgusting part doesn’t register.

      • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        11 months ago

        Ditto, I don’t want to touch none of that mess down there.

        All I can think when I visit a country that doesn’t use bidets regularly is that all these people using their hands for everything were very recently groping around near the wrong end of themselves.