Originally Posted by bigwheel

Those things grow wild all over the place n S. Texas. The Mexicans call them chilepetins..or maybe chilepequins. The red necks around Corpus call them Pea Peppers. The Hippies in Austin call them River Peppers. They have a real nasty flavor. Not sure why anybody would want to eat one. I did send some dried pods to a horticulture guru in Germany a few years back..so maybe they got them in der Fadderland land now. They do have some heat. Sightly above a typcial jap maybe.