You probably kept grabbing them because they gave a funny sensation.
Why else would you have had a fascination to eat them?
Personal tolerances vary, and build really fast. I’m exaggerating when I say “maced”, but I like to make food hot enough to make my nipples feel it. My digestive tract is completely used to it and I barely feel it, which is why I have to keep making it hotter and hotter. As in my fingers will burn for a day after I’ve cooked just from having to touch the chilis a little bit and I add a little bit of super hot sauces depending on the food, and a few times I’ve had a cough or something and the difference in the tolerance is noticeable.
I don’t fall down on the floor grabbing my face, it’s just noticeable.
(And I’ve been exposed to actual tear gas, it’s very different sensation than mace btw on a tangent.)
You may have less sensitivity naturally, and then build tolerance on top of that, would be my guess.
But for you to completely lack the receptors would be a medical miracle.
but I have been in a crowd that got pepper sprayed. It burned the fuck out of my eyes and lungs, but I didn’t notice it anywhere else.
So your mouth probably didn’t burn. Mike wouldn’t either. When we were in the army some of the MP’s used their maces to spice the food. It’s literally just a capsaicin spray most of the time. (There are other irritants as well but most times…)
You probably kept grabbing them because they gave a funny sensation.
Why else would you have had a fascination to eat them?
Personal tolerances vary, and build really fast. I’m exaggerating when I say “maced”, but I like to make food hot enough to make my nipples feel it. My digestive tract is completely used to it and I barely feel it, which is why I have to keep making it hotter and hotter. As in my fingers will burn for a day after I’ve cooked just from having to touch the chilis a little bit and I add a little bit of super hot sauces depending on the food, and a few times I’ve had a cough or something and the difference in the tolerance is noticeable.
I don’t fall down on the floor grabbing my face, it’s just noticeable.
(And I’ve been exposed to actual tear gas, it’s very different sensation than mace btw on a tangent.)
You may have less sensitivity naturally, and then build tolerance on top of that, would be my guess.
But for you to completely lack the receptors would be a medical miracle.
So your mouth probably didn’t burn. Mike wouldn’t either. When we were in the army some of the MP’s used their maces to spice the food. It’s literally just a capsaicin spray most of the time. (There are other irritants as well but most times…)
Can you taste vanilla?