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I love hot/spicy food- dont really know if it is genetics- but always when I was young waking up getting ready for sunday dinner (they started cooking by like 7am) my grandfather used to fry up the long hot Italian peppers and I would scoop that up with a half a loaf of semolina- So you can say now at 41 I have a pretty high tolerance- love it
Growing up in Texas hot/spicy foods were pretty much everywhere, and I would eat them pretty frequently. I never really liked it extra hot, until I was expecting my first child. I went into hot overdrive. Couldn't get enough. Still love it but I don't want everything hot. And as DH has aged he has gotten where he wants more and more heat. He's a pepper fanatic. He would put jalapenos in just about everything if I would let him. Both our kids have always eaten spicy foods. I guess they just grew up eating spicy TexMex.
I'm 33 and I grew up always eating spicy food but I am slowing down on it. I still like it, but now I just want it to taste spicy... in my 20's I wanted it to hurt me.
Mostly people have trouble digesting things that are highly acid and things that have a lot of animal fat. Strong spices such as cayenne pepper, wasabi, horseradish, crushed red pepper rarely cause anything more than momentary indigestion. Copious amounts of animal fat or tomatoes can cause some real distress.
Unfortunately, many people mis-identify the problem, by saying things like pizza doesn't agree with them when it is really the tomato sauce and not the spicy part of the pie. Or szechuan Chinese food is a problem when it is really the animal fat in the Chinese that has then in distress.
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