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I feel you Polly (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by Stamets@lemmy.world to c/funny@sh.itjust.works

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[–] TulipanJones@kbin.social 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Plants’ main objective is to make baby plants. Some, like cacao, peppers, coffee beans, have opted to be bad for some/most animals so they don’t get eaten. Turns out that humans are pretty metal and like chocolate, capsaicin (the spicy compound in peppers), and caffeine.

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Same with nicotine and alcohol.

It's also theorized that humans consumed these things to help with parasites