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Jeremy McClancy describes the experience of eating chili peppers as akin to burning your mouth with a blow torch: the burn grows from the lips to the entire body, causing everything from sweat glands and eyes to stomach, heart, and lungs to react. He explains that chili is a nonaddictive stimulant that wards off common colds and has been used medicinally for a variety of ailments. The appeal of eating chilies, he claims, is akin to the appeal of scary movies or rollercoasters—exciting but not dangerous, an experience that distracts us temporarily from the rest of our normal experiences.

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