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Rachael Simpson Rachael Simpson is offline
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Blinky the Shark wrote:
> Steve Wertz wrote:
>> On 19 Jul 2007 02:37:24 GMT, Blinky the Shark wrote:
>>
>>> rachael simpson wrote:
>>>> Blinky the Shark wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 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.

>> Search for "dorset naga" which is really the jolikia. The former
>> received much more publicity in the last year than the original.

>
> Ah! I'd never heard of "dorset naga".
>
> It gets fairly confusing.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naga_Jolokia_pepper
>
> "The Indians claim it is a C. frutescens,[1] but the derived cultivar
> Dorset Naga was assessed as a C. chinense."
>
> That's the only ref to China in the article. It seem to be Indian in
> origin, regardless.
>
>

thanks, maybe that's why i couldn't figure out what the name was suppose
to be

rae