It's certainly reflective of something

I know that food used to be something in this country you worked hard for so you could have pot roast and mash potatoes and other various and sundry forms of flavorless starch.

Then a few of us got too god-damned thin, and far more of us got too damn fat.

Now when you look around food isn't even about enjoyment. It's about goddamned torture.

It's either for eating in mass beyond the limits of human endurance, or an implement of torture.

One way or another it's about food as punishment, and it gets more disturbing all the time:

The Naga Viper chilli packs an astonishing 1,359,000 on the Scoville scale, which measures heat by the presence of the chemical compound capsaicin.

Experts at Warwick University carried out tests on the chilli and officially declared it the hottest.

It beat competition from the ferocious Bhut Jolokia pod - the previous holder - to take the title of the world’s hottest chilli in the Guinness Book of World Records.