Hot peppers used as a spice in cooking, or a spicy stew made with beans and meat.
From Nahuatl 'chilli,' an Aztec word for hot peppers. Spanish conquistadors brought the word back from Mexico in the 16th century, spreading it globally.
The heat in chillies comes from capsaicin, which tricks your brain into thinking your mouth is on fire—it evolved in peppers to protect seeds from mammals, but humans started deliberately eating them for pain!
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