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user-inactivated · 3995 days ago · link · · parent · post: Looking to Quell Sexual Urges? Consider the Graham Cracker
The New Yorker had an excellent piece a while back examining the zany world that is competitive chili growing. There's definitely an interesting relationship between spice and masculinity/virility:
"Chiliheads are mostly American, British, and Australian guys. (There is also a valiant Scandinavian contingent.) Chili growing is to gardening as grilling is to cooking, allowing men to enter, and dominate, a domestic sphere without sacrificing their bluster."