I believe I wrote about this story on here some years ago…
we were having a birthday party for my grandson…he was about 5 or 6 at the time…and just now he has finished his 2nd year of college…at party time my other grandson showed up with his younger cousin named Kaiden who was about 4 years old at the time…
During the party kids were playing outside and they all came running in all excited except for Kaiden, he was kind of calm and not saying much…they said Kaiden was eating the Birdseye peppers…those are some really hot peppers so I didn’t think he was…I said he can’t be, they are too hot…but they sounded pretty convincing so I said go get some peppers and show me…they went to get some peppers and were back shortly…I said where are the peppers…Kaiden said I ate them…I said open your mouth I want to see…well his mouth and tongue were red with the little red peppers and also lots of seeds…he looked as if he was eating a lollipop or piece of fruit…just as calm and no big deal whatsoever…I made him stop on account I was afraid he would be sick…I couldn’t wait to talk to his mom…
His mom showed up a couple hours later…I told her what Kaiden ate and she said it’s no big deal…one day when he was sitting in the high chair he reached over and grabbed a jalapeño pepper and started eating it when he was about two years of age his mom said…
She also said Kaiden has been eating peppers ever since…I asked her if she had any theories or ideas as to why…she said she never ate peppers until she got pregnant with Kaiden and had to eat Jalapeños and kept them handy…she said she craved them really bad during pregnancy…she also said she thought that that is what caused him to like eating them…and without feeling the heat…
The environment in her digestive system most definitely changed…common sense says it was a domino effect or chain reaction that many things reacted to the radical change in the diet…
This was a very unique situation that I will never forget and it just made me want to learn more from it…
Some other person might not give it a second thought…
It is the same with our dogs…sometimes we see it clearly and others don’t or don’t care one way or another…that what makes this world go round and round…we’re all different because evolution molded us this way for a reason…if we were or are all the same we wouldn’t survive…
Reuben, I can personally relate to this account, when my mother was in her 2nd and 3rd trimester during her pregnancy with myself she craved and ate ungodly amounts of watermelon and couldn't eat enough of it, could it be her body was lacking something contained in the melons and it be a coincidence or not who knows but I can eat an entire watermelon in one sitting everyday, and I usually do average one melon a day while their in season and some days will be the only thing eat, I absolutely love watermelon and it has no ill effects on my digestive system like it does all those around me, I'm the only one in my family that never ever grows tired of eating it, could it have been my mothers consumption of them during pregnancy or just be shear happenstance, who knows......
