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

[Sue Clemenger]

The version of crud that's going around here in my part of Artemisia is
*sneaky,* so be careful that yours isn't as well! I was fine on
Saturday, and miserably ill 12 hours later.  (This was in
November--actually, the day after I got my Pelican.)  I'm usually pretty
smug about not getting virii, but this one blind-sided me.
When I get to feeling that nasty, I want hot-and-sour soup, too,
although I've never had the Vietnamese version.  Or I want really spicy,
garlicky Thai food.
--maire

Susan Fox-Davis wrote:
> 
> 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_!)
> >
> 
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