M0053 on Nostr: Well, I looked it up and the word goes back some 500 years in English and it was a ...

Well, I looked it up and the word goes back some 500 years in English and it was a word that was used back in the day to denote spicy food. You would say that food that was particularly spicy or heavily seasoned was devilled (the old spelling). So that's where it came from.