It’s not just us young whipper-snappers that crave hot sauce and spicy fare, but apparently the older, wider generation has to have it as well. Check out this cool article from a few days back from the online Cleveland Examiner:

Why some Baby Boomers like it hot, hot, hot
November 19, 7:56 AM
by Paul Briand, Baby Boomer Examiner

As if aging Baby Boomers aren’t losing enough, add a loss of taste to the list.

We’re losing our hair, we need glasses for reading and distance, our hearing is going, and let’s not even get into the 401(k) losses.

Our sense of taste is going too, and as a result, our hankering for hotter and hotter, spicier and spicier foods is growing.

Here’s an interesting statistic, gleaned from a recent AARP Magazine article with the headline “Some Like It Hotter”: In 1998, each person in the United States consumed 4.7 pounds of chili peppers (that excludes bell peppers, by the way). In 2007, our per person consumption of chili peppers jumped to 6.3 pounds per person.

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