Reply #40: I think sensitivity is the key too.

[Jamastiene]

Our tongues are set up to sense the different categories of flavors based on the part of the tongue doing the sensing. I love the taste of spicy hot foods, but my stomach is incredibly sensitive. I have to balance my spicy food intake because of my temperamental stomach. Sometimes, I have to force myself to eat chicken and rice soup without tobasco sauce in it and milk and crackers in it for about two weeks, I have to alternated between those two to get it back right again. If only my stomach was balanced with my tongue, eyes, nose and sinuses...