The hottest peppers section on related pages to that wiki had peppers that were on par with literal pepper spray. That had me laughing
I legit thought that different coloured peppers were different plants, when it’s just how long their left in the sun. 
Still prefer Green Peppers though
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Chile peppers evolved capsaicin, for which birds don’t feel the heat, but mammals do in a big way. The plants prefer birds to spread their seeds over wider distances.
Just call me Cliff Claven of the New World.
I still want to know how stuff like black pepper, onions, and garlic evolved. What animals eat those?
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All of the nightshades get a collective MVP for vegetables. Food outside the Americas prior to the 16th century just sounds intolerable to me.
All peppers
Tomatoes
Tomatillos
Potatoes
Turnips
What about Asian food prior to the 16th century?
David Cross with hair is terrifying
Bland kimchi without chilies.
No peanut sauce for satay.
This popped up on my Youtube for some reason. Damn Stanley Tucci was dreamy back in the day.
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Good thing the Aztecs had gold.
This is good
Does everyone get the same suggested tiktok things after watching that? I get anti porn commentary and how to wrap extension cords. I may have to defy the will of the forum and get an account after all.
I clicked hoping to see laughably wrong extension cord techniques but all I got was pets and people doing random things I didn’t care about at all.
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The tictok algorithm is pretty impressive actually. Took it a few days but it feeds me almost all content I want now.
when I see something like this, is this a per-pepper rating or is this like per some unit of weight?
The Scoville scale is a measurement of the pungency (spiciness or “heat”) of chili peppers, as recorded in Scoville Heat Units (SHU), based on the concentration of capsaicinoids, among which capsaicin is the predominant component.[3][4][5][6][7] The scale is named after its creator, American pharmacist Wilbur Scoville, whose 1912 method is known as the Scoville organoleptic test.[3][8] The Scoville organoleptic test is the most practical method for estimating SHU and is a subjective assessment derived from the capsaicinoid sensitivity by people experienced with eating hot chilis.[3][4]
Maybe our resident super tasters can opine?
This is the exact opposite of what I want from the internet. I have maybe a dozen sites whitelisted for persistent cookies. Everybody else gets obliterated as soon as the tab closes.
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Interesting. I know I am in the minority but I have close to zero care about privacy etc. Track me all you want if it ends up making my experience better and keeps it free. I enable cookies on nearly everything.
A classic example of expressed versus observed preference.
Sadly you are not in the minority. At all.
Also:
Avocados
Corn/Tortillas
Chocolate
Pineapples
Tobacco
Vanilla
Blueberries
Maple syrup (do people use maple syrup outside North America?)