As folks eat chili peppers, they're able to tolerate peppers with ever higher SCU ratings. I've often wondered whether that accommodation was physiological, or psychological. If physiological, what changes? Taste buds expiring?

I've heard people with giant avatars can eat hotter peppers.



If you cut and paste this link into avatar field, then you will have a more reasonable sized one.

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Like this

Might want to ask Dr. Bosland at the Chile Pepper Institute.

https://cpi.nmsu.edu

Yes you can. Started with green, now at harbenarbo I grow them all. I evan grow ghost peppers. But ghost peppers are for pest control.