Since I am heading off soon for a sun soaked vacation with lots of drinky drinks and hot peppers in Mexico, I thought I would look into a strange phenomena we all sometimes experience where you get a burning sensation after eating/drinking something that is not hot in temperature. What causes the “burning my face off” feeling?

Luckily, the internet has an answer for EVERYTHING!

Here is SciShow host Hank Green with what I needed to know. (Don’t ask me to explain it in person, because I will be very drunk soon)

And……………………..If you have never experienced this burning phenomena, because maybe you aren’t a drinker, then the girls of Buzzfeed replicate the feeling really well in this next video:

Told ya the internet is smart.