A couple years ago, we got a new Mexican restaurant in our small town.  It's 
run by real Mexicans and their food is really good and relatively cheap. 
It's my favorite place to eat for lunch now.  Yes, I'm also getting fatter 
again.

Anyway, I've never been a big fan of spicy hot foods.  It just doesn't do 
anything for me, except make my tongue hurt.  Others like it.  Fine.  So, 
I've tried to adapt.  After eating there for 2 years (perhaps once a week), 
the salsa still seems just as hot as it ever did.  I don't complain, but my 
tongue burns and burns for 15 minutes or so.  Ok, so I'm still not used to 
the hot foods, and it will take me a few more years to adapt, right?

Well, that's what I thought.  But no one else that I work with seems to have 
it affect them.  Half of them don't even think there are any peppers in the 
salsa.  No, they're not all male, trying to prove their masculinity.  In 
fact, even my daughter (10 years old) doesn't seem to think it's hot.  They 
gave her the mild salsa, and she preferred the hotter salsa.  Guess who 
ended up eating the mild stuff...

Ok, so I'm a wimp.  Fine.  I'm cool with that.  But I really have to believe 
that there must be something different about me.  My brother is very 
similar, and in many ways, he's more of a "tough-guy" than I am.  Maybe I've 
grown slightly more accustomed to the hotter spices, but how can I still 
trail my 10 year old daughter who's rarely ever eaten spicy foods?  There's 
got to be something more to it.

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