I was wondering if, to those on T, has it changed your taste in food? I was having a family dinner the other day and noticed all the guys loved spicy food whilst the girls disliked it. I myself am well known for my inability to enjoy anything spicier than a korma... Literally, ground pepper is too much for me. I want to enjoy it, because I feel like there's this whole world of food blocked off to me and so many things I can't enjoy because the only thing I feel when I eat anything spicy is sadness and mouth pain and a need for water and moaning.
So guys, has T made you tolerant of the spice or changed your tastes in food? Is beer less bitter?? :D
I haven't noticed any differences in my sense of taste or my food cravings
I've heard that it's a male thing to like spicy food and that most women dislike spice. But I've always loved spicy food and I already eat stuff hot enough to kill a horse, without having any T in my system as far as I know.
I know plenty of women who like spicy foods. My tastes haven't changed although I do crave more high protein foods. Peanut butter is in danger if it is within my reach.
I've read that a person's tollerance of spice is actually more heriditary than anything. That's why people in cultures with primarily spicy food (Indian etc) have a much higher tollerance; because their parents ate spicy food, and their parents before them etc etc. I personally know tonnes of women who love spicy food, and a lot of guys who can't stand it. I myself like my spice as hot as it gets, and I'm not on T.
I've never heard of it being a sex related thing before.
I don't know where I get it from then. I'm the only one in my family that eats spicy food. Everyone else is more like DevinJW, to them, anything more than a pinch of black pepper is too spicy.
I didn't think it was gender/sex related either...but the heredity idea is intriguing. Was that an actual, scientific study?
My taste in spicy foods has actually changed, but it was entirely by my own efforts. I used to barely tolerate pepperoni pizza -- sometimes I could eat it, sometimes not -- but at a chili event most of the chili was, of course, spicier so, sick of my pathetic threshold for spice, I basically embraced the burn as a good thing and dealt with it I guess. Was a good day. I've been pushing it further and further since and now things that other people think are spicy I can kind of just shrug at. I truly enjoy spice now.
Though, at my last job, I had a little help with this from an assistant manager, haha.
Unfortunately, when ordering Chinese food, that can lead to disappointment when you want spice and they don't deliver on that. :-\