Posted on 10/10/2017 7:20:51 AM PDT by Red Badger
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This can’t be covered under the 2nd Amendment as the founding fathers couldn’t have thought of the pepper arms race and what that would do to society. We must ban the manufacture, sale, and import of all peppers over six Scoville units. This must be done for the children as they will eat anything.
The new danger is idiots at Lowe’s Garden Center who mislabel the plants in the pots. I bought what I thought was a mild Hungarian wax pepper plant. These things sort of look like wax peppers, but they are infinitely hotter (which came as an unwelcome surprise the first time I used one). Next time I could get one of these dragon pepper plants by mistake.
So, Pepper Sauces would be considered ‘Assault Peppers’?.....................
Peppers are notorious for crossing...my wife cut up some ‘benign’ Jimmy Nardello sweet peppers for dinner last night, and wound up with ‘burning hands’. Dinner was spicy. There are super-hots elsewhere on the property. Damn bumblebees. :-)
Kentucky Straight Bourbon Ghost Pepper Sauce.
Has an excellent flavor blend from the bourbon and pepper both. Probably not more than 800k Sco.. So it most likely won't kill you.
It WILL clean your colon out if you aren't used to hot stuff though...
A local distillery makes a gin made with ghost pepper as part of the botanical mix. No heat but a rather interesting earthy flavor.
“I can only shake my head over all this hot pepper one-upmanship.”
Now it has gone well beyond the ‘challenging but still edible’ heat levels into the ‘you will die if you try it’ range, it does seem to be getting silly. Marketing exercise to get some free publicity, I guess.
Still, perhaps they could have some uses. We could airdrop a few pounds of them over Pyongyang, see how Rocket Boy likes the taste.
I had some peppers that I grew from seed thinking they would be hot like their parents.
They turned out mild but very tasty.
If you have really good soil and they get lots of water you will have a larger milder pepper.
If the soil is poor and there less water you will get a smaller hotter pepper.
Your mileage may vary but that is what happens in my garden.
Well now, I’m gonna go and develop a pepper that has at least 5 million heat units. I’ll call it This Pepper Certifies That I am a Psycho.
I will then grind up a few of them and sprinkle the resulting powder over Ithaca, so that Behind Liberal Lines won’t have to worry about them mean liberals anymore.
But seriously, WTF is wrong with these people???
DANG!
There is no reason to create these super hot peppers. The only market is for those morons who think it hilarious to goad their drinking buddies into eating one.
No, thanks. I enjoy a little kick to some dishes but I want to enjoy the flavor of the dish rather than writhe on the ground in screaming pain.
“...ban the manufacture, sale, and import of all peppers over 6 Scoville units...”
As an added bonus, this will send many Mexican/Central American ‘immigrants’ racing back home. Some SE and South Asians too. s/
When Dave’s first came out (15 -20 years ago) I put a few drops on a teaspoon and ate it.
My diaphragm immediately started to spasm and I had the hiccups for 10 minutes.
Basically, pepper spray in a bottle for idiots to play with.
We need to ban these assault peppers ASAP. ;-)
These peppers are not grown for human consumption, but for industrial and military uses....................
Agreed. It’s time to have a rational discussion on common-sense pepper control. If even one life is saved, wouldn’t it be worth it?
Actually I got hold of a rather mild “hot pepper” in some deli chicken wings—Though I don’t like hot peppers, I ate one because there are people who sear by them for health benefits.
I used up at least a quart of milk rinsing my mouth to try and cut the heat and not have my throat burn...Yikes cannot imagine eating these super hot ones!!
I bought some Anaheim and jalapeno seed packages from Burpee. Those were the hottest things ever. Even hubby (Mr. Bring it on I can take anything!) couldn't take them. I don't think they were jalapenos. Those seeds also grew some peter peppers. It was a bit shocking to have uh, hmm, "peters" growing in the garden. Someone had fun mixing seeds at the factory.
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