Did you know there was NO spicy (capsicum-based) food outside the Americas prior to Columbus?

[ProfessorGAC]

6. Another Fun Fact

Varieties hotter tgan Ghosr, like Carolina Reaper & Pepper X were not cultivated for food use.
The were bred to have peppers so much higher in capsaicin that extraction fir use in pepper spray & capsaicin based analgesics was far more efficient.
Then some macho types decided that nothing was too hot for them and started using them in foods. But, there was never an intent for these superhot peppers to be used in cooking.
A bit of it was a competition among the hybridizers to see who could make the hottest pepper on a viable plant. But, the dollar sign visions were about selling them to the extraction industries