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Only allowed to use it when wearing a penguin suit.

Ah, interesting.

Back when I lived in Japan, that was the spiciest thing I could find in your average grocery store, so I would add it to all kinds of things.

What do you mean by substituting mai ploy? I’m guessing you mean Mae Ploy, which is a brand and not a specific product. Mostly known for making curry pastes.

I’d imagine she would be the one feeling violated here.

In my experience as a rabbit owner, they will thump at you and run off if you scare them.

My migraines are actually usually without headache, just a lot of aura. That might sound not so bad, but it’s pretty bad.

They tend to start a bit insidiously, with a little bit of sensitivity to light and sound and, even more so, frequently changing or bright light and fast sound.

That’s when things start to feel overwhelming in my head, so if I’m not being obtuse, I recognize that it’s time to take medication. Sometimes my partner realizes it before I do because I’ll start covering my eyes and just mildly complaining about things being too bright or too much.

Anyway, at that point I take sumatriptan. It requires a prescription, but it’s not expensive. It works like magic for me.

Before I found sumatriptan, I would have to be in a dark, silent room with my head in a pillow.

I just deal with it unless it’s a migraine.

Probably the one where some strange artifact showed up and turned out to be highly radioactive, causing my skin to slough off.

That is a debit card, not a credit card. We also have debit cards in the US.

That would be part of why I said chili peppers, not pepper.

American cuisine also suffered dramatically in the post-war period due to a reliance on, for example, canned vegetables. A whole generation or two (boomers and Gen X) grew up not knowing what spices are, practically.

Hey now, it’s thanks to them that we have chicken tikka and butter chicken.

Dude. Sentences are useful.

Trump has been deliberately framing himself as a protector of Israel who supports them doing whatever they want to.

Yeah, you’re misreading that.

They believe that taking a moral stand against the Democrats, who are supporting Israeli genocide, is worth it even if that means that Trump, who even more fervently supports Israeli genocide, becomes president.

Sure, but the same applies to so many foods in so many cultures. What was Italian food like before they had access to tomatoes? Eastern, Central European, or Irish before potatoes? Chinese, Southeast Asian, or Korean before they had chili peppers?

Now each of those countries have dishes we associate with them but which use those non-native ingredients.

But how does it work, then?

Similarly, I enjoyed cheap sake until I had expensive sake. I was better off before!

Similar for me, except I’m just an avid home cook. I can make so many things better at home that I won’t eat them anywhere else anymore.