Birds enjoy
eating pepper pods, but they have an aversion to the highly concentrated oleoresins.
Deer eat the leaves of the chile plants and mice, believe it or not, actually
eat the pepper pods and especially the seeds.
Not exact matches
I have seen the red
pepper pods cooked themselves, and these are
eaten with a great relish.
Back in 1994 - 95, the big chile
pepper story was that
eating the
pods caused stomach cancer.
Slugs love
peppers — they munch the leaves, and some even don't mind
eating the hot
pods, too (we have photo evidence).
An early naturalist, Francisco Ximnez, wrote in his natural history of Guatemala in 1722 that he had heard of a
pepper from Havana that was so strong that a single
pod would make «a bull unable to
eat.»
Famed chile
pepper breeder Roy Nakayama once reported that skunks were
eating the
pods in some of his fields.
Greg: Again, I go back to my comment that a minute was not a lot of time to
eat that amount of
peppers, so the real strategy is you got to figure that you
eat one
pod every three to four seconds to come anywhere near the record.