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Originally Posted by Bill Douglas

I used to eat crazy chit hot Indian food. Like chicken vindaloo. But after 3/4th of a lifetime it occurred to me it's only the chilli I'm tasting. It might as well been chilli cardboard and it would taste the same. So now I eat Indian food at about medium hotness level.

I'm also less fussy. I'll eat most foods just to avoid cooking it myself and doing the dishes.

I like spicy food, but not so spicy that my only experience is pain. I like to taste the food, so yeah, I eat what I'd consider "medium" although I've eaten stuff that many folks called "too spicy". But I've also had a couple of times where I ate something that was SPICY! One of these days, I want to buy one of the collections of hot sauce from the YouTube show "Hot Ones" just to see where my taste sits on that scale. My son eats really spicy food. I think he likes the experience rather than the flavor.

What I've heard is that 1 you can train yourself to eat more and more spicy stuff just by eating more spicy stuff and spicier stuff than you're used to. Also, how people experience capsaicin is a genetic thing. Some folks just don't have the receptors for it, so it doesn't do anything to them. I would assume that some folks may have more receptors than others which would probably affect the intensity of the effect.