[Little Ray]

Chili was a way of making rancid meat palatable.
It might also be related to how Aztecs cooked up their human sacrifices - stewed with peppers and tomatoes.

[PUGACHEV]

"It might also be related to how Aztecs cooked up their human sacrifices

Bernal Diaz Del Castillo wrote that Moctezuma threatened to kill Cortez and eat him with Mole' at one of their initial interviews. I gather from this that Mole' was the Aztec's preferred sauce for human flesh.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Bernal Diaz (THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO) often wondered if they had accidentally eaten people when they were fed by the Aztecs.