Imagine an alien landed on Earth and we told him what humans did. What would honestly make him/her/it/tentacle go 'what the fucking fucksticks.'
We eat and drink biological and chemical weapons for fun. (Alcohol and chilli peppers.)
alcohol goes way back tho. Nowadays it's like a ritual which is super important for social cohesion and the mental release it brings, but it goes back to a really primordial sense, which is that we like it because it reminds us of ripe fruit. Ripe fruit tends to start getting a lil bit of that fermented taste to it, which we loved when we were hangin out in forests. So that just got extended to full on alcohol.
and chili peppers have health benefits.
But yeah humans are pretty fuckin weird.