[blam]

I have read that all the hot peppers in the world today have their origins in the Caribbean islands.

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[Puppage]

[Lazamataz]

I love those guys!

[Edgar3]

Wow, what a great article, considering I sell hot sauce for a living!

[muawiyah]

6,000 years ago there were no Latin Americans, and no Latin America.

In fact, there were no Latins!

[Gabz]

They are chilE peppers, not chilI peppers.........

[Dysart]

Wow, chili peppers, now I need them more than ever...

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam.

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[Red Badger]

2 Kings 4:

Death in the Pot
38 Elisha returned to Gilgal and there was a famine in that region. While the company of the prophets was meeting with him, he said to his servant, "Put on the large pot and cook some stew for these men."

39 One of them went out into the fields to gather herbs and found a wild vine. He gathered some of its gourds and filled the fold of his cloak. When he returned, he cut them up into the pot of stew, though no one knew what they were. 40 The stew was poured out for the men, but as they began to eat it, they cried out, "O man of God, there is death in the pot!" And they could not eat it.

41 Elisha said, "Get some flour." He put it into the pot and said, "Serve it to the people to eat." And there was nothing harmful in the pot.

[Blind Eye Jones]

The Hot Chili Peppers are causing global warming. Al Gore said so, therefore, it must be true.

[Bernard Marx]

blam,
I don't know about the Caribbean claim but I've known for maybe 30 years, based on scientific reports, that capsicum is native to the Mesoamerican lowlands. What's with this "new" research?

[Beagle8U]

No so long ago in history pepper was worth more than gold.

I suspect that ground Chile's were also quite valuable.

As the story goes it was because of the lack of refrigeration it was the only thing that could hide the taste of half spoiled meat.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Ping to freeper who sent me that great jar of habanero flakes.

[Chode]

it's Cayenne based so it's considered mild, but for me it has the best overall flavor. i guess it's cause of the sugar in it.

[wolfcreek]

Chili Paquines (tiny, round and very hot) grow wild in Taos, NM.(supposedly for 5000 yrs.) I believe there is a preserve dedicated to them there.


We have them growing wild in our yard in Texas. Don't know if they were planted here but, I heard a story saying, Mocking birds are the only creature who eat them. Supposedly, the peppers pass through the birds system whole and that's how they are spread. Anyone know more about them?

[WestVirginiaRebel]

I understand the recipes were so valuable that a tribal chef would Fight Like A Brave to protect his.

[RightWhale]

Right. The hot peppers were a big hit in Europe and soon everywhere. Some of the peppers they grow now would stun a bear.

[Doomonyou]

The HPLC analysis revealed that Orange Habanero had a mean (average) heat level of 357,729 SHU. That's quite a bit, but according to Dr. Bosland, this is in the range normally seen for this cultivar in Las Cruces, NM. (I once tasted Jalapeno peppers right from a field close to Las Cruces, and even those "ordinary" peppers were surprisingly hot.)

Now for Bhut Jolokia -- the analysis revealed that it possessed an extremely high heat level indeed, a whopping 1,001,304 SHU. That's a heat level you normally see only with ultra-hot sauces using pepper extract (capsicum oleoresin).

A different kind of surpise was the test result for Red Savina - it scored a rather low heat level of just 248,556 SHU. This means the SHU value for 'Bhut Jolokia' was four times higher than 'Red Savina' -- so much for "the world's current hottest chile pepper"