rachael simpson wrote:
> Blinky the Shark wrote:
>> rachael simpson wrote:
>>> Billy Rose wrote:
>>>> In article >,
>>>> Nick Cramer > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> Jack Schmidling wrote:
>>>>>>> What has happened to jalapeno peppers?
>>>>>>> [ . . . ]
>>>>> Grow Serranos or Thia Piguinos. If ya want some of our Thais, eat my SPAM
>>>>> to e-mail me.
>>>> But it's not just the heat. There is a freshness, greenness, a
>>>> delicateness to roasted ja-lap-pin-nos that you don't get from other
>>>> peppers. Ideally you have at least 15 seconds to appreciate them before
>>>> you realize that something is terribly wrong. They ain't hot unless they
>>>> make me hick-ups.
>>> what's the new hot pepper that the chinese (i think...) developed that's
>>> suppose to be 10 times hotter than any other pepper? i keep hearing
>>> about it, but never catch the name.
>>
>> Hasn't appeared here, yet...the hottest shown is Indian.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoville_scale
>>
>> How recent is development of the one you address?
>>
> I first heard about it about a month ago. It was on a radio news show.

Can't find anything on it with a Google search of news items. Perhaps
someone with better google-fu than I can come up with something.

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