[Sca-cooks] OT (OOP) Flu/Chili question

[Susan Fox-Davis]

Capsicum pepper and turmeric are said to have anti-inflammatory 
properties. The chili is nice and warm and full of tomatoes and beans 
and all that nutritious stuff.   At least, it sounds like something that 
would do you no harm when you are sick and maybe not eating right.

Right now, I'm surrounded by people with this rotten "plague" which I 
refuse to get.  I have NO time for this.  So far, the positive attitude 
thing seems to be working.

Selene C.

Hrothny/Rosine wrote:

>   I recognise that part of this is self-evident, it's the other "fringies"
>that I'm interested in. I've got the flu on top of a sinus/ear infection
>(man, even my _teeth_ ache!) and have developed a craving for, of all
>things, Wendy's chili. For some reason, it makes me feel better. I can
>understand that the warmth and the mild clearing effect of the (barely
>spicy) chili would do that, but - a craving? Comfort food? Beyond the two
>things I mentioned, is there some sort of ingredient in their chili that is
>somehow beneficial to sinus sufferers? Because you'd think it was chicken
>soup I want, but it's not. And it's got my hubby laughing at me and
>threatening to bring home a pregnancy test!
>   (As another oddity, it doesn't upset my tummy, which many chilies do. It
>soothes it instead. What makes it so different? It barely quals as chili, in
>the affectionado's book, so it's puzzling. Almost as weird as my mom's
>perchant for grapefuits when she needed something to sooth her ulcer.)
>
>hrothny, up from too much medicine
>(I probably wouldn't be sending this message if I could _sleep_!)
>