I like the joke, but on a real note I feel like they would warn the rest of the clan and some rebellious teens grabbed them and ate them and they did the joke lol.
Wild type chilis grow in central Texas once you're above the escarpment. They are tiny and very hot, and I say this as a Deep East Texan who was raised on homegrown jalapeños and cayennes. Fourth and fifth graders at my elementary school could request a bottle of tabasco vinegar at lunch. Beyonce apparently had the same experience in SW Houston because she always carried hot sauce in her bag. In the South that's redundant because you can always ask for and graciously receive a cayenne sauce and likely also tabasco vinegar. Hillary Clinton picked up the cayenne sauce habit in Arkansas. When she said she carried hot sauce in her bag she wasn't pandering to the youth vote by pretending to be like Beyonce, Hillary Clinton actually got into the sauce around the time Beyonce was born, and was on record mentioning this long before the song lyric. Wild chilis are pretty hot. Every very hot pepper is an attempt to make a fleshier version of the quite hot wild strain. Every extreme heat pepper is breeding a bigger pepper with a lot of heat back to something that looks like a wild pepper.
And yet it's precisely because an animal had an unintended love for the thing it should hate that the plant has spread around the whole world. And it's not even all that unique, even. Similar relationships have evolved this year several times in evolution -- fruits, nuts... almost every human-domesticated plant.
@@konokiomomuro7632 Chilies, Later: "Heh... wait... you're willing to help us breed and spread around the whole world if we sacrifice some of our kind to you? Deal."
In ancient Mexico, chilli was planted among corn, beans, etc as a way to protect the fields from grasshoppers and other insects. Also, misbehaved children were punished by making them smell burned chillis.
I suspect onion was the same. A very pungent flavour that would make feasting on them rather unpleasant but... One thing I'd like to know though is why stinging nettles seem to be targetted at us humans. Is there any other animal that is affected by stinging nettles? I've seen cattle and other anmals eat them with impunity. I just wonder why stinging nettles seem to have singled us out for punishment.
It's more like meso Americans than mexicans as chili peppers and corn were domesticated by them (meso Americans being indigenous people in Central America) Mexicans are a mix of meso American and Spanish conquistadors/Spanish immigrants
It is crazy. I'm half Mexican and I'm alright with some spice but I'm not crazy about it. My dad though ALWAYS has his peppers on the side which he'll just eat as a snack and of course he loves Tobasco sauce but who doesn't?
It's crazy to think this spicy fruit from South America is now a NECESSARY ingredient for authentic Thai, Korean, Indian, Malaysian, Indonesian, Hunan, Sichuan, Vietnamese & various African & Southeast Asian cuisines. ❤🔥
Though you also have peppers. Unlike what some think pepper actually isn't related to chili at all and has a different active compound called peperine. It's a case of convergent evolution where peppers and chili's evolved the same trait independently. So while chili's were unknown in Asia peppers were very well known.
Actually, capsaicin isn’t just something birds are insensitive to, they actively love it. It feels to them how menthol feels to us. If you have access to chickens, find the hottest chile you can find and offer it to them. They devour the chiles like it’s candy. And yes, the more capsaicin, the more excited the chickens get.
First Human to eat pepper: wow that was pretty intense! Thought I was dying there for a minute. I'm glad the pain is finally over. Pepper being digested: for now...
the first peppers were probably mild, just like ancient corn was literally a grass. Ancient Mesoamericans -- then later, the rest of the planet -- just kept breeding them for higher capsaicin concentrations.
but that's the point. they kill lots of things, many of which make us sick. that's why hotter parts of the world with more parasites and bacteria have spicier food. the spices help protect us by killing them.
Tea plants/coffee plants/cacao: "Well, we have this super bad chemical called caffeine that will make things not bother me!" Humans: "HeeHoo speed juice."
@@heinzerbrew probably something like "woohoo". "Woohoo is an exclamation of excitement or joy. Woohoo is typically used alone as an interjection preceding or following a sentence that explains what the excitement is about. It is also seen as woo-hoo, woo hoo, and whoo-hoo. Example: Woohoo!" Replace "woohoo" in that explanation by "heehoo".
I like it how Russia is one of approximately 1.5 countries in the world that did not end up cultivating chilis. That's why we consider anything spicier than mashed potatoes very spicy.
@@ennui9745 not really, though it varies from place to place I'd say generally we enjoy it. Not as much as some Asians though, we are probably second place lol
As a southern Australian I'd say the same but I just ate a huge plate of nachos so I got my fix already. Chilli not really a big thing here just wanted to add to the "south" theme
As a Northern European who grew up on what I only recently discovered to be the literal definition of “porridge” (..not to much cinnamon, please), I too am craving the heat that leaves me dabbing for days (TP, not circa 2015 dance move).
My aunt had a Rottweiler mix that used to eat the jalapeños right off the plant. They had to set up a fence around the plants otherwise she would eat them all 😂
I once let my dog taste a drop of hot chili sauce. After she licked it, she started extending and retracting her tongue continuously for a minute. Afterwards, when I showed her the bottle of the chili sauce, she ran away in fear having learnt from that experience.
@@bearcubdaycare not "ironically" in regards of birds and some hominids (homo-sapiens aren't the only mammals that eat chiles). What some animals eat is not only about genetics but also circumstances.
plus if your nose is stuffed up from (seasonal) allergies, chilies will clear them out Edited to add seasonal for people allergic to chillies. Duh of course don't take something if you're allergic to it.
4 things: 1) I thought thst the reason birds could eat it but not slobbering mammals was because birds have much less saliva (water spreads the capcaisin). 2) why did it take so long for humans to domesticate peppers? For that matter, why so long to domesticate wheat, which only happened 4,000 years earlier? Were humans on screensaver for the vast majority of their existence? 3) it was stated that capsicum broke off early but it did not state from what. If I did my research correctly, it is from nightshade, such as tomatoes. 4) so eating spicy peppers gives the same effect as self-cutting does? Well, that's depressing...not in a cut myself kind of way, but still will not look at that the same way again.
I think the squirrel that destroyed my dads jalapeno crop on one plant 2 years ago begs to differ about humans being the only mammals who willingly eat peppers. I watched the little guy pick off a pepper, bite it, run around the yard after immediately dropping it and then running back to the plant and repeating the process over the course of 30 minutes until there were no peppers left. Clearly didn't like the burning sensation but kept coming back for more.
Capsicum: I want to spread as much as possible. Let's deter slow spreaders like mammals through capsaicin. Monké: Eats and cultivates throughout the world. Capsicum: Monké unexpectedly proved vital in our mission. Task failed successfully.
@@Jason75913 "The Hominidae (/hɒˈmɪnɪdiː/), whose members are known as great apes[note 1] or hominids (/ˈhɒmɪnɪdz/), are a taxonomic family of primates that includes eight extant species in four genera: Pongo (the Bornean, Sumatran and Tapanuli orangutan); Gorilla (the eastern and western gorilla); Pan (the chimpanzee and the bonobo); and Homo, of which only modern humans remain.[1]"-wikipedia
I'm so grateful for chilis. Along with therapy, medication, and physical activity, their spicyness has helped me so much with my struggle with mental illness.
Man chilis leaves saved me so many times when I was a kid. I would get huge boils all the time and one of my uncles taught me if I burnt a chilis leaf a little and crushed it and put it on the boil it would bring the core to the top. Easy pop and no more pain.
My cat developed a taste for chili too. At first he tear after eat my spicy foods but now he really love spicy foods and meow to me every time I eat some yummy spicy foods.
The alternative title might be: "How a series of complicated evolutionary shenanigans of the other side of the planet led to me having a complicated love-hate relationship with tiny red fruits".
As someone who’s family is native to Central America this was quite entertaining, and am incredibly happy to see what my ancestors were doing in earlier times, Thank you PBS:)
Thank you to your ancestors, they're the reason we have so much delicious food in the world. And not just the chilies I think. So many of the vegetables and foods we eat today originated with the natives.
@@DeedeedollieF choco plant* Chocolate with diary is invented in europe. Native americans diet was not made up of diary much they made drinks with choco plant
Huge thanks and respect to the first human that ate a pepper, probably raw, felt the pain and instead of freaking out he did it again and again. How bland our food would be without spice otherwise
In the English-speaking world we refer to the senasation produced by chilis as "hot." However in the Spanish-speaking world the sensation is described as "picante." Literally "stinging." We say it burns. They say it stings. Personally, I think that "stinging" is a more accurate description.
Well, In Chinese cuisine (or more specifically Sichuan cuisine) we have this spice called Sichuan pepper, it probably does "stinging" more cleanly than chili pepper, in fact, depends on the variety and dosage you can get tingling, stinging and numbness. As you might imagine the peppercorn pairs extremely well with chili pepper and the pair defines modern Sichuan cuisine, good stuff.
A Mexican American customer of mine grew many varieties and gave me bunch of each kind. I made them last a very long time. I planted a bunch to keep the legacy going.
Don't forget that unlike other aimals we can dilute the flavor of what we eat thanks to cooking ^^ Yeah, the first human to eat them would have found them extremely hot, ut the second one would have thought "Hey, if I put that in like a kilo of maize, the hotness is not as bad, and the maize is a lot better" ^^
Based on the microfossil chili proteins found in corn, I’d guess they mixed ground peppers in with grain to prevent spoilage and learned to put up with the burning sensation-same as alcoholic. As for how it started, maybe they gathered some peppers along with other grains, mixed them together and were pleased to see it didn’t spoil.
@@googlesucks6029 I don't upload videos on youtube. I meant that I was going to share this video with everyone who thinks I'm going to kill my birds because I give them chillies. I have lots of videos of my birds eating chillies, they really like them. They don't seem bothered at all. Chillies basically evolved to be eaten by birds so birds don't feel the spicy from chillies.
Watching Hank reaction the hot sauces is amazing. Also, pro-tip freezing and grating chillies over food is amazing, learnt that by growing chillies since 2014.
Wow wow wow! As someone who’s family comes from Mexico and has a passion for all things spicy, I have to say this has been one of my favorite Eons videos so far! ❤️
This was so interesting! Thanks so much for the content! I was wondering about the different plant that developed capsicum in SE Asia. When I lived in Indonesia the chilies (cabe) had such a different taste from what I’ve had in the Americas... is this the different evolution that you were talking about or is that simply the result of generations of cultivation in a new environment? Thanks again for the content! Love your show!
I appreciate the nod to indigenous people towards the end. I like that the video was primarily focused on science while still respecting cultures. Keep it classy PBS and keep feeding Hank hot sauce!
Peppers: evolve burning defenses to keep annoying mammals always That one "special" mammal: loves getting burned so much that start cultivating the pepper **task failed successfully**
One element of our symbiosis with spice could very well be that those who ate spicy foods were less likely to get sick due to their antibiotic properties, possibly even staving off food illness without reliable storage techniques. This last point was touched upon but not quite from the medicinal perspective.
I wish we got videos more than once a week. If I watch one the moment it drops, I keep checking all week (and let's not talk about the skipped weeks) for a new video, and if I hold off I keep expecting to be able to watch a few at once even though, you know, I only waited three or four days.
my pet degu actually developed a taste for it after a while. first time, he was pretty mad about it, but after that, he'd go for spicy food on his own.
At one point they tried adding capsaicin to wire insulation to deter rodents, but found after some time some squirrels decided they liked the burn and would specifically seek out the spicy wires and ended up doing more damage than the squirrels that were just randomly gnawing on things. Oops.
@@pattonramming1988 a relative of the squirrel and chinchilla. About the size of a common rat, but has a gerbil tail and a squirrel face. Very smart, great pets.
My friend likes super hot chili con carne. He gave some to his dog. The dog took one lick, backed off, and barked at it for 5 minutes. Then gave my friend a dirty look and laid down.
It’s kind of ironic that the thing Chili’s use to keep us from destroying them/wiping them out, is the sole reason we will forever make sure it stays around. Long live the chili lol.
My dogs actually really really love spicy food and actively beg for the spicy goodness. I don't give them much because I don't know how it affects them but they definitely like it.
Not a topic that I would have expected you guys and gals to ever do a video on. Yet... _as a plant dad to tomato seedlings currently... this is probably one of my favorite episodes so far._
Definitely addicting. I started my spice journey with a Slim Jim (Mild) at around 4 years old. My love for spicy foods grew from there. From that point on, I just worked my way up the spice ladder, eventually growing my own peppers in my teen years (jalapeno, banana, cayenne, tabasco, and habanero peppers). I used to make salsa with them. Through adulthood I have enjoyed the wide range of extra hot peppers, ghost, scorpion, and so on. Great video!
This is why i love spiking the shower temp wayyyy hot. It definitely relaxes my inflammation and soreness from hard labor. That feeling if being overwhelming hot in shower and stepping into cold a/c air is amazing. Gotta be similar function as this receptor.
Old comment I know but I absolutely love really hot showers. I don't like coming out of them, though. It's nice in the shower but it makes the cold afterwards much worse for me. Doesn't keep me from taking very hot showers but I'm frozen for a few minutes afterwards.
When my son was little, I challenged him to eat a stupid hot pepper that our neighbor grew. The reward was $20 (when that was actually worth something) and I would eat one as well. He grabbed one and bit into it. Instead of spitting it out immediately, he realized that a prank was being pulled on him so he looked at me, clenched his fists and then proceeded to eat the whole pepper while staring at me with tears pouring out of his eyes. I've never broken my word to him so......
ahhh anyone else see the notification and immediately went off to make a spicy batch of food to sit down with to watch this one? Got my nice pot of buldak ramen and a brilliant video, as always!
I'm indeed grateful to our early ancestors for not turning away from this fiery indulgence. I just love raw green chillies so much that I can't have any meal without my mouth burning snack. I was literally salivating throughout the duration of this entire video. I need to have some right away.
I always said hot chilies were for the birds! Also, I'd love to see more episodes about other plant species loved by humans. Thank you for another great video!
In hot climates, piquant foods tend to cause vasodilation, which is perceived as cooling. It's the same reason that peppermint is frequently consumed in hot climates as well.
I can just about guarantee that the first person to eat a hot pepper immediately got a friend to eat one telling them it was sweet.
But they are sweet when ripe!
I second this! Humans always prank each other. Even the ancient greeks did it (and quite extensively)
Inga Bunga unga
And then both farted and indulged in the oldest humour of all: fart humour.
I like the joke, but on a real note I feel like they would warn the rest of the clan and some rebellious teens grabbed them and ate them and they did the joke lol.
Humans: I bet we can selectively breed this plant to make its fruit even spicier.
Plant: Um, not really what I was going for.
Plant: *Suffering from Success*
Wild type chilis grow in central Texas once you're above the escarpment. They are tiny and very hot, and I say this as a Deep East Texan who was raised on homegrown jalapeños and cayennes. Fourth and fifth graders at my elementary school could request a bottle of tabasco vinegar at lunch. Beyonce apparently had the same experience in SW Houston because she always carried hot sauce in her bag. In the South that's redundant because you can always ask for and graciously receive a cayenne sauce and likely also tabasco vinegar.
Hillary Clinton picked up the cayenne sauce habit in Arkansas. When she said she carried hot sauce in her bag she wasn't pandering to the youth vote by pretending to be like Beyonce, Hillary Clinton actually got into the sauce around the time Beyonce was born, and was on record mentioning this long before the song lyric.
Wild chilis are pretty hot. Every very hot pepper is an attempt to make a fleshier version of the quite hot wild strain. Every extreme heat pepper is breeding a bigger pepper with a lot of heat back to something that looks like a wild pepper.
And yet it's precisely because an animal had an unintended love for the thing it should hate that the plant has spread around the whole world.
And it's not even all that unique, even. Similar relationships have evolved this year several times in evolution -- fruits, nuts... almost every human-domesticated plant.
Chiles: "you weren't supposed to do that"
Plant: But sure, knock yourself out. Possibly literally.
Chillies: evolve capsaicin over millions of years to ward off animals
Ancient humans: mmm, mouth tingly
Later humans: Let's breed it to be even spicier!
@@Harrier42861 Chilies: STOMP THE TABLE “No, this isn’t how you’re supposed to play the game.”
@@konokiomomuro7632 Chilies, Later: "Heh... wait... you're willing to help us breed and spread around the whole world if we sacrifice some of our kind to you? Deal."
Correction
Ancient humans: mouth afire 🔥😍
Totally useless against birds though, they can't taste it.
"it kinda gets you high"
[Roll footage of Hank lying under a table]
It's crazy that chili peppers have gone from making a burning sensation to writing songs about California with good basslines.
Y'know, they evolved.
Evolution is truly wonderous
Heh, i didn't know they were from California.
Underrated comment.
e V o L u T i O n
In ancient Mexico, chilli was planted among corn, beans, etc as a way to protect the fields from grasshoppers and other insects. Also, misbehaved children were punished by making them smell burned chillis.
Add chili to flip flop for extra damage
And kids, that's why chipolte was invented.
Oh man, that feels like pepper spray to the face! Yet another reason to be grateful to be born now and not then
@@carnation969 Now the worst thing we gotta worry about is moma’s flip-flop
Finally!!!!! An intelligent comment. My long and arduous search is over!!!
And yes, my grandma used to do this to her kids as punishment.
Chilli Peppers: Evolves to scare away predators
Humans: *I like your funny taste magic plant*
Task failed succesfully
Same with coffee
I suspect onion was the same. A very pungent flavour that would make feasting on them rather unpleasant but... One thing I'd like to know though is why stinging nettles seem to be targetted at us humans. Is there any other animal that is affected by stinging nettles? I've seen cattle and other anmals eat them with impunity. I just wonder why stinging nettles seem to have singled us out for punishment.
You had me at "Car-Sized Armadillos"
I want to see a video on them now!
She always does.
Carmadillos
@@camillastacey4674 👍
@Pleoryo I've seen those at the hobby shop.
our brain when we eat a hot chili: " Would you like some chemical relief in these trying times"
You literally commented a quote from the video
Where did we learn to love that spicy burn?!
@@Intentspunk19 by throwing it into our cuisine, chili peppers are spices afterall
@@michael-hf7tn can I offer you an egg in these trying times?
@@Intentspunk19 Our special relationship with chili was never suppose to be..
Puffer fish: has poison to avoid being eaten
Chilli: has capsicum so mammals can't consume
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Human: i eat all
Bats: you don’t say
@@99999bomb remember scorpions? xD
@@hachinguyen5473 yea but bats cuased the COVID thing sooooo
@@99999bomb yahhhh i still got your point :(
Omnivore supremacy
Chili peppers: “Curse you, you hairless apes! You’ve foiled us again!”
Humans: "why? you are now in every single continent its a win - win situation"
but were are spreading your offspring all over the world
What if it's the opposite?
@@papermaniac except Antarctica
Chili peppers: ULTRA MEGA STONKS
Chili Peppers: Consume us and you will be entering a fiery realm of complete torture.
Early Humans: Eh, what's the worst that could happen?
That last sentence sums up humanity pretty succinctly.
modern humans: let's cultivate & spread this crop around the world like never before.
Addiction to the Scovill's scale needs I say more oh wait to create mega-hot peppers
Don't wanna nitpick but they're not really early humans technically, 16kya was relatively recent
@@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980 That sense of risk and curiosity has lead us this far lol.
Chillis: We well be protected from creatures if we burn them
We Mexicans: I will add you and corn to every food from now on
Indians: hello there
@@amalsp8955 ya
@@amalsp8955 this is yummy 😋😋😋
It's more like meso Americans than mexicans as chili peppers and corn were domesticated by them (meso Americans being indigenous people in Central America)
Mexicans are a mix of meso American and Spanish conquistadors/Spanish immigrants
It is crazy. I'm half Mexican and I'm alright with some spice but I'm not crazy about it. My dad though ALWAYS has his peppers on the side which he'll just eat as a snack and of course he loves Tobasco sauce but who doesn't?
It's crazy to think this spicy fruit from South America is now a NECESSARY ingredient for authentic Thai, Korean, Indian, Malaysian, Indonesian, Hunan, Sichuan, Vietnamese & various African & Southeast Asian cuisines. ❤🔥
Yes indeed. The Columbian Exchange was quite remarkable in human history.
Though you also have peppers. Unlike what some think pepper actually isn't related to chili at all and has a different active compound called peperine. It's a case of convergent evolution where peppers and chili's evolved the same trait independently. So while chili's were unknown in Asia peppers were very well known.
How does Mexico not get a shout out
@@RamBear88because it’s not crazy to think that Mexican cuisine uses a local ingredient
@@RamBear88 mexico is a colonial country, i think you mean the natives there. aztecs, Nahuatls,
Actually, capsaicin isn’t just something birds are insensitive to, they actively love it. It feels to them how menthol feels to us. If you have access to chickens, find the hottest chile you can find and offer it to them. They devour the chiles like it’s candy. And yes, the more capsaicin, the more excited the chickens get.
Crazy
Interesting!
My chicken is gonna be very pleased
@@vitazissel3671 please report back!
inb4 chicken cartels for chili
First Human to eat pepper: wow that was pretty intense! Thought I was dying there for a minute. I'm glad the pain is finally over.
Pepper being digested: for now...
Ooof, dont remind me the time I mixed Chipotle and calabrese pepper powder in a Subway sandwich.
LMAO
the first peppers were probably mild, just like ancient corn was literally a grass. Ancient Mesoamericans -- then later, the rest of the planet -- just kept breeding them for higher capsaicin concentrations.
@@romxxii why are you ruining this for me
After the first guy tried he was like bro try this pepper . Lol
Chilis: "yes, I am now hot, things won't bother me."
Humans: "HeeHoo tasty spice"
but that's the point. they kill lots of things, many of which make us sick. that's why hotter parts of the world with more parasites and bacteria have spicier food. the spices help protect us by killing them.
Tea plants/coffee plants/cacao: "Well, we have this super bad chemical called caffeine that will make things not bother me!"
Humans: "HeeHoo speed juice."
It seems to have worked against southern south americans.
what does heehoo mean?
@@heinzerbrew probably something like "woohoo".
"Woohoo is an exclamation of excitement or joy. Woohoo is typically used alone as an interjection preceding or following a sentence that explains what the excitement is about. It is also seen as woo-hoo, woo hoo, and whoo-hoo. Example: Woohoo!"
Replace "woohoo" in that explanation by "heehoo".
Chili: Develops a defense mechanism against fungi and animals over 100 million years.
Humans: Oh, baby I like it that way 😉
Chili: I create a compound that makes your mouth feel like its on fire.
Humans: Jokes on you I'm into that s**t.
@@ladysilverwynde Oh yeah I wanted to comment this but did not remember exactly this one :D
We homo sapiens like it hot
I'd like this comment but you're at 420 and I don't wanna be the one to ruin that
Not all animals, just mammals.
I like it how Russia is one of approximately 1.5 countries in the world that did not end up cultivating chilis. That's why we consider anything spicier than mashed potatoes very spicy.
Most Latin Americans don't like chiles either despite them originating there.
@@erichamilton3373 sure……
@@erichamilton3373 Is this true?
Meanwhile Asians love chili peppers and they didn't even exist in Asia until Europeans brought them there.
@@ennui9745 not really, though it varies from place to place I'd say generally we enjoy it. Not as much as some Asians though, we are probably second place lol
@@dexorne9753 I am Filipino and we love chilies, but nowhere near as much as the Thai do.
The footage of Hank trying not to die from chilli overdose: priceless!
As a Latin American who grew up on spicy food, I must say this video actually made me quite hungry for a chilli snack...
SAME
As a South-Asian, same.
I’m East Asian(Korean) and I feel the same too xD
As a southern Australian I'd say the same but I just ate a huge plate of nachos so I got my fix already. Chilli not really a big thing here just wanted to add to the "south" theme
As a Northern European who grew up on what I only recently discovered to be the literal definition of “porridge” (..not to much cinnamon, please), I too am craving the heat that leaves me dabbing for days (TP, not circa 2015 dance move).
My aunt had a Rottweiler mix that used to eat the jalapeños right off the plant. They had to set up a fence around the plants otherwise she would eat them all 😂
ha
Dogs are strange
@@jonathanwilliams1065 yes sooooooo
I once let my dog taste a drop of hot chili sauce. After she licked it, she started extending and retracting her tongue continuously for a minute.
Afterwards, when I showed her the bottle of the chili sauce, she ran away in fear having learnt from that experience.
@@GTAVictor9128 well animals are smart
Plant: Don't eat me, look at my colors, I will hurt your mouth.
Human: IS THAT A CHALLENGE?!
Chill - “We have hot skin to defend ourselves, nothing can destroy us”
Human - “Oh? New plant let’s have a taste test” 🥸
Which, ironically, led to great success for chilis.
@@bearcubdaycare not "ironically" in regards of birds and some hominids (homo-sapiens aren't the only mammals that eat chiles). What some animals eat is not only about genetics but also circumstances.
Humans: enjoys it
Chili: you weren’t supposed to do that
The skin has NO heat.
The heat is in the waxy "core"
"while mamals quickly learned to stay away from this group of irritating fruits"
Homo sapiens sapiens: I like to play with fire. I like it.
Seeing Hank die over the hot sauce was so weird to see because I'm only used to watching him be big brain and formal in videos
It’s nice to see him on the channel again though.
@@TieYourLaurenDown I miss him on the channel
You should see his tik tok account then
formal ? he's very often goofy
Follow him on TikTok, you’ll see him as a huge goofball soon.
plus if your nose is stuffed up from (seasonal) allergies, chilies will clear them out
Edited to add seasonal for people allergic to chillies. Duh of course don't take something if you're allergic to it.
Or from hammering the ching haha
And bring a new kind of suffering
@@JohnSmith-hs3po uhh, bro?
@@alessandrorivera7468 chill bro hammer the ching one time
Yes they will and I LOVE IT
Watching Hank in pain is very relaxing. 10/10 would Schadenfreude again. 🤣🍿
He's such a goofball, I love it
@RIOT or maybe played Lobotomy Corp
scoodin'-nfroody
4 things:
1) I thought thst the reason birds could eat it but not slobbering mammals was because birds have much less saliva (water spreads the capcaisin).
2) why did it take so long for humans to domesticate peppers? For that matter, why so long to domesticate wheat, which only happened 4,000 years earlier? Were humans on screensaver for the vast majority of their existence?
3) it was stated that capsicum broke off early but it did not state from what. If I did my research correctly, it is from nightshade, such as tomatoes.
4) so eating spicy peppers gives the same effect as self-cutting does? Well, that's depressing...not in a cut myself kind of way, but still will not look at that the same way again.
I think the squirrel that destroyed my dads jalapeno crop on one plant 2 years ago begs to differ about humans being the only mammals who willingly eat peppers. I watched the little guy pick off a pepper, bite it, run around the yard after immediately dropping it and then running back to the plant and repeating the process over the course of 30 minutes until there were no peppers left. Clearly didn't like the burning sensation but kept coming back for more.
Little guy musta been desperate
Love how you sat watching instead of chasing him off! 😂
To the generations that dedicated their lives to raising Chili peppers, THANK YOU !
Now, imagine those first humans seeing a glyptodont and exclaiming "oh wow, an armadillo the size of a car!"
And their friend would've said, "Wait, what's a car?".
@@possummagic3571
"I don't know, but it's about as big as that armadillo."
That was when the time traveler looked right-left and muttered "huh? What? I didn't say anything..."
@@possummagic3571 “wait 10,000 years and you’ll see”
Phineas and Ferb fans raise your hands.
Capsicum: I want to spread as much as possible. Let's deter slow spreaders like mammals through capsaicin.
Monké: Eats and cultivates throughout the world.
Capsicum: Monké unexpectedly proved vital in our mission. Task failed successfully.
No one is laughing
@@carmenwinstead6798 I am
@@carmenwinstead6798 we are
@@carmenwinstead6798 I am.
@@carmenwinstead6798 no, i am!
Something about this episode is just so... heartwarming.
There's Tums for that
I that's called heartburn
Chili: Develops a defense mechanism that triggers heat and pain on mammals.
masochist monkey: 😲 🔥 🥰
We are apes :<
edit: actually we are hominids
@@pedrolmlkzk our ancestors are "hominids", we are _humans_
@@Jason75913 "The Hominidae (/hɒˈmɪnɪdiː/), whose members are known as great apes[note 1] or hominids (/ˈhɒmɪnɪdz/), are a taxonomic family of primates that includes eight extant species in four genera: Pongo (the Bornean, Sumatran and Tapanuli orangutan); Gorilla (the eastern and western gorilla); Pan (the chimpanzee and the bonobo); and Homo, of which only modern humans remain.[1]"-wikipedia
@@pedrolmlkzk oh, I see, lol
That's why in Spain we started making chorizo, suddently there was a spice that helped preserve food well that we could grow in our gardens.
I'm so grateful for chilis. Along with therapy, medication, and physical activity, their spicyness has helped me so much with my struggle with mental illness.
☺️☺️☺️☺️
wait...whaat???
bro what
Pepper: Ha! Now I cause pain and I will be safe from consumption
Like every human culture: mm don't mind if I do
i have to say, hank absolutely suffering in the background while she calmly explains science elevates this video from good to godly
Man chilis leaves saved me so many times when I was a kid. I would get huge boils all the time and one of my uncles taught me if I burnt a chilis leaf a little and crushed it and put it on the boil it would bring the core to the top. Easy pop and no more pain.
My cat developed a taste for chili too. At first he tear after eat my spicy foods but now he really love spicy foods and meow to me every time I eat some yummy spicy foods.
The alternative title might be: "How a series of complicated evolutionary shenanigans of the other side of the planet led to me having a complicated love-hate relationship with tiny red fruits".
Though entertaining ot lacks brevity 🤔
That is the correct. Title end. Of.
@@ClipCoyote Yeah, that might be a problem
@@matthoward7645 You have the same problem, do you?
@@itacom2199 exactly the same I go back to the little red barsteds more than my baby muma 😅
As someone who’s family is native to Central America this was quite entertaining, and am incredibly happy to see what my ancestors were doing in earlier times, Thank you PBS:)
Thank you to your ancestors, they're the reason we have so much delicious food in the world. And not just the chilies I think. So many of the vegetables and foods we eat today originated with the natives.
Thanks to your fathers for chilies and avocados
Lets not forget tomatoes and chocolate
@@DeedeedollieF choco plant* Chocolate with diary is invented in europe. Native americans diet was not made up of diary much they made drinks with choco plant
@@davidjoelsson4929 they did have hot chocolate.
So that’s why I feel like I’m addicted to spicy food. Turns out I actually am
Huge thanks and respect to the first human that ate a pepper, probably raw, felt the pain and instead of freaking out he did it again and again. How bland our food would be without spice otherwise
Love the fact that you acknowledged the natives of the land
Chilies: Don’t eat us, humans. We developed capsaicin to ward you off!
Humans: Pain makes my mouth go brrrrrr
It do though. Chiles make my mouth go brrrrrrr
Chiles makes my mouth go yummmmmm
That acknowledgement at the end was a pleasent surprise, way to go respecting the native people :)
In the English-speaking world we refer to the senasation produced by chilis as "hot." However in the Spanish-speaking world the sensation is described as "picante." Literally "stinging." We say it burns. They say it stings. Personally, I think that "stinging" is a more accurate description.
Both!
Well, In Chinese cuisine (or more specifically Sichuan cuisine) we have this spice called Sichuan pepper, it probably does "stinging" more cleanly than chili pepper, in fact, depends on the variety and dosage you can get tingling, stinging and numbness. As you might imagine the peppercorn pairs extremely well with chili pepper and the pair defines modern Sichuan cuisine, good stuff.
I say pain 😭
It's the same word for that in Portuguese, so cool!
@@lordarthur2165
Yes. Spanish and Portuguese are very similar.
Cavemen :eats chilly pepper and starts burning his mouth but say it tastes good.
Other Cavemen:Noted
they werent cavemen though
@@bluefrostryy it’s just for the memes I know they weren’t cavemen
A Mexican American customer of mine grew many varieties and gave me bunch of each kind. I made them last a very long time. I planted a bunch to keep the legacy going.
I bet the consumption of chilli peppers started as a prank among people, until some odd kind of masochistic guy foud it quite delicious.
we were probably drawn to the new flavor, plus anti-microbial properties were a bonus to stop food from spoiling
Don't forget that unlike other aimals we can dilute the flavor of what we eat thanks to cooking ^^
Yeah, the first human to eat them would have found them extremely hot, ut the second one would have thought "Hey, if I put that in like a kilo of maize, the hotness is not as bad, and the maize is a lot better" ^^
Based on the microfossil chili proteins found in corn, I’d guess they mixed ground peppers in with grain to prevent spoilage and learned to put up with the burning sensation-same as alcoholic. As for how it started, maybe they gathered some peppers along with other grains, mixed them together and were pleased to see it didn’t spoil.
@@bleuemoone8710 o
@@joshuasims5421 or, a masochist thought the chilli was bussin
Chilis exclaim "We will make you writhe in pain." Humanity replies "What's the safe word?"
🤣🤣🤣
Popcorn.
Kumquat.
Banana! Banana!
Milk
It was lost to time.
'teacup'
Does anyone else quietly say “and Steve” at the end?
Yes
I didn't see your comment before posting mine. But I was expecting to hear Steve and didn't. Hope he is well.
Still waiting for Steve to become an eonite again
@@magikarp8084 He's still recovering after eating a whole plate of spicy chilis.
Me :(
I really appreciate the territory acknowledgment at the end. 💗✊🏾💗
pbs eons got to be the best youtube channel ever
My parrots love chillies and people keep asking me if it's going to hurt them. I'll link this video a lot. Great!
Where is the parrot video?
@@googlesucks6029 I don't upload videos on youtube. I meant that I was going to share this video with everyone who thinks I'm going to kill my birds because I give them chillies. I have lots of videos of my birds eating chillies, they really like them. They don't seem bothered at all. Chillies basically evolved to be eaten by birds so birds don't feel the spicy from chillies.
Watching Hank reaction the hot sauces is amazing. Also, pro-tip freezing and grating chillies over food is amazing, learnt that by growing chillies since 2014.
Wow that sounds awesome, hopefully in a couple years if I grow my own chillies I'll remember this comment and try it lol
Wow wow wow! As someone who’s family comes from Mexico and has a passion for all things spicy, I have to say this has been one of my favorite Eons videos so far! ❤️
Duh
@@MagicMike_101 What makes you so magical, Mike?
This was so interesting! Thanks so much for the content!
I was wondering about the different plant that developed capsicum in SE Asia. When I lived in Indonesia the chilies (cabe) had such a different taste from what I’ve had in the Americas... is this the different evolution that you were talking about or is that simply the result of generations of cultivation in a new environment?
Thanks again for the content! Love your show!
"Level of 2 neurotransmitters suddenly rise, endorphin and dopamine" Hmmm sounds like drugs. It is definitely a drug and I am addicted to it 😂😂😂
I appreciate the nod to indigenous people towards the end. I like that the video was primarily focused on science while still respecting cultures. Keep it classy PBS and keep feeding Hank hot sauce!
Peppers: evolve burning defenses to keep annoying mammals always
That one "special" mammal: loves getting burned so much that start cultivating the pepper
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Chilies: Evolve to be spicy so animals don’t eat them.
Weird hairless ape: sounds tasty I want one
I appreciate your acknowledgement of the indigenous peoples. They deserve that.
One element of our symbiosis with spice could very well be that those who ate spicy foods were less likely to get sick due to their antibiotic properties, possibly even staving off food illness without reliable storage techniques.
This last point was touched upon but not quite from the medicinal perspective.
Chili peppers: nnnooooo, you can’t just eat us and not spread our seeds, you’re a mammal!!!
Humans: ha ha, capsaicin go bbuurrrn
we literally spread its seeds better than all the birds in history combined lol
"Haha, spicy. Wonder if we can make it more spicy"
THEN IT GOT SPICIER AND SPREAD AROUND THE WORLD.
@@idkimlikereallybored9533 thank colonizers for that
We do spread the seeds. Why do you think it makes some people go to the toilet?
Human: *eats pepper for first time* damn its spicy I want more
Plant: No that's not how you are supposed to play the game
Eating chiles is México's national sport.
Amen hermano
Amen
And they eat the hottest & the most peppers !
@Abioye Bidziil 🇲🇽 = 🌶️
No, that's King of Figthers. Chile's are just to relax
I appreciate that last disclaimer. Good company policy.
I wish we got videos more than once a week. If I watch one the moment it drops, I keep checking all week (and let's not talk about the skipped weeks) for a new video, and if I hold off I keep expecting to be able to watch a few at once even though, you know, I only waited three or four days.
Chilis: "Me mind on fire / Me soul on fire, feeling hot, hot, hot!"
my pet degu actually developed a taste for it after a while. first time, he was pretty mad about it, but after that, he'd go for spicy food on his own.
Wtf is a degu?
@@pattonramming1988 types of rodents from Chile
At one point they tried adding capsaicin to wire insulation to deter rodents, but found after some time some squirrels decided they liked the burn and would specifically seek out the spicy wires and ended up doing more damage than the squirrels that were just randomly gnawing on things. Oops.
@@pattonramming1988 a relative of the squirrel and chinchilla. About the size of a common rat, but has a gerbil tail and a squirrel face. Very smart, great pets.
My friend likes super hot chili con carne. He gave some to his dog. The dog took one lick, backed off, and barked at it for 5 minutes. Then gave my friend a dirty look and laid down.
Babe wake up, new Eons video
🔫 👁️👄👁️ "I lied. We're not watching Netflix. Now get under the blanket and watch the Eons video."
@@s1mplem4gic58 Eons videos > everything else
Incredible to imagine that Asian cuisine wasn’t spicy until the discovery of the Americas.
This has to be one of my favourite PBS Eons videos ever
Shout to to everyone whose parrot loves giving them eskimo kisses after eating chilis.
Thank you, as always, for your acknowledgment of the indigenous people and lands! Wishing you well Eons team!
I wasn't expecting footage of a chilli-rushed Hank but I can certainly appreciate it :P
That's crazy that all these hot dishes in Asia owe their heat to chili peppers originally from the Americas.
What a burst of happy sunshine this lady is!
It’s kind of ironic that the thing Chili’s use to keep us from destroying them/wiping them out, is the sole reason we will forever make sure it stays around. Long live the chili lol.
Me: Eats a habanero pepper and proceeds to almost die
Also me: Damn I love this, I'll have another one
06:10 It hurts so good, unusual and precise choice of words
I came for an informative video about chilli peppers and stayed for the footage of Hank lying on the floor in pain.
My dogs actually really really love spicy food and actively beg for the spicy goodness. I don't give them much because I don't know how it affects them but they definitely like it.
Not a topic that I would have expected you guys and gals to ever do a video on. Yet... _as a plant dad to tomato seedlings currently... this is probably one of my favorite episodes so far._
This is exactly the content I subscribed for
Chili peppers make you high? Quick, someone give me my bong and a habanero, time to blast off lol
I’ve seen that vid, trust me you won’t like it.
Its like adrenaline junkies just with spicy foods
No
You don't just snort habanero powder
Definitely addicting. I started my spice journey with a Slim Jim (Mild) at around 4 years old. My love for spicy foods grew from there. From that point on, I just worked my way up the spice ladder, eventually growing my own peppers in my teen years (jalapeno, banana, cayenne, tabasco, and habanero peppers). I used to make salsa with them. Through adulthood I have enjoyed the wide range of extra hot peppers, ghost, scorpion, and so on. Great video!
This is why i love spiking the shower temp wayyyy hot. It definitely relaxes my inflammation and soreness from hard labor. That feeling if being overwhelming hot in shower and stepping into cold a/c air is amazing. Gotta be similar function as this receptor.
Old comment I know but I absolutely love really hot showers. I don't like coming out of them, though. It's nice in the shower but it makes the cold afterwards much worse for me. Doesn't keep me from taking very hot showers but I'm frozen for a few minutes afterwards.
When my son was little, I challenged him to eat a stupid hot pepper that our neighbor grew. The reward was $20 (when that was actually worth something) and I would eat one as well. He grabbed one and bit into it. Instead of spitting it out immediately, he realized that a prank was being pulled on him so he looked at me, clenched his fists and then proceeded to eat the whole pepper while staring at me with tears pouring out of his eyes. I've never broken my word to him so......
You are so good, my dad still owes me 100$ for eating some hot sauce
A good father. A legendary son.
The boy is too dedicated. Make sure his goals are good for humanity or else he may become a super villain instead of a super hero
@ sounds like a hero to me
A man of sheer will power
ahhh anyone else see the notification and immediately went off to make a spicy batch of food to sit down with to watch this one? Got my nice pot of buldak ramen and a brilliant video, as always!
Miss you Steve- hope you’re well 💜
I'm indeed grateful to our early ancestors for not turning away from this fiery indulgence. I just love raw green chillies so much that I can't have any meal without my mouth burning snack. I was literally salivating throughout the duration of this entire video. I need to have some right away.
Chili: NOO! You can’t just ignore my defense adaptation I developed over millions of years and eat me!!
Humans: Haha mouth go aaa
I’m happy that PBS Eons showed that the discoveries were on indigenous land.
Yes! So important.
If that’s where they were why not?
Other spicy plants were discovered elsewhere though
@@jonathanwilliams1065 What other spicy plants?
@@jonathanwilliams1065 The person simply said the discovery of chillies were made on indigenous land, not that spice was.
I always said hot chilies were for the birds! Also, I'd love to see more episodes about other plant species loved by humans. Thank you for another great video!
Chili plants: I have developed the perfect defense against eating.
Humans: Haha spicy fruit go brrrrrrrnnn
This was surprisingly informative for such a short video, great work!
In hot climates, piquant foods tend to cause vasodilation, which is perceived as cooling. It's the same reason that peppermint is frequently consumed in hot climates as well.