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Put out three additional plants this AM - An Asian Eggplant, a Habanaro pepper and a Large Thai Pepper Hybrid. The eggplants gave me some strange grief this year - but the survivor count was more than adequate (albeit after a second planting). This is growing zone 7B - so all of these are effectively annuals.
The lovely sickness is the hot peppers. Any one could easily supply a family for the summer. Yet, adding the two from today, I've about fifteen of them. Mwah-hah-hah! For the feint of heart, I do have a few Jalapeno peppers, but they're recreational whilst the others ripen. Hot peppers seem to be easily as popular as many pets - except it customarily more common to eat them. (I mean the peppers, except in France).
Habanaro is, however, as hot as I'll go. It's for sauce - much to hot to do anything with directly (for me, at least). The heat, however, is different than the others (yet of the same chemical source) - comes a bit later and clearly a fresher heat. Great for cooking. I hope to have a years supply or more of the sauce.
No - not being a true pepper head I don't have any desire for Scorpion peppers and the new genre of herbal hellions. Most of another order of magnitude in heat becomes absurd.
So - any other fans of the hot-stuff out there? For that matter, any true pepper heads. And there's always "Pepper Claus[^]".
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W∴ Balboos wrote: I don't have any desire for Scorpion peppers and the new genre of herbal hellions. Most of another order of magnitude in heat becomes absurd.
 Habanero peppers are wonderful in every way. Any hotter and you are just following the fad of the year.
Pepper head here since I was 5 or 6.
Honestly, Serrano and Jalapeno peppers are what I usually use for cooking, salsa, etc. Habanero peppers from time to time. No hotter really.
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No, no - Scotch Bonnet scratches my itch. Really nice fruity pepper flavour underlies the heat. Jalapeno doesn't taste of that much other than mild heat to me.
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I cook my food for flavor first, then heat. That is how most Mexicans cook their food. I lived in Los Angeles from birth to 22, and ate some wonderful Mexican food in that time period.
Scotch Bonnet peppers are nice, they are equal to Habanero peppers on the Scoville scale, and I would use them with care, equally.
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I'd pretty much agree with that - I use the Jalapeno (or Serrano) for the heat, not for the flavor.
The scotch bonnet's are extremely near kin to the habanaros. I think of them interchangeably with the one caveat that the ripening time for the scotch bonnets precludes my growing them (at least, outdoors).
Adding heat to food should enhance the flavor. In the US, they have chili contest and give them names like "Five Alarm", "Six Alarm", ad nauseam, and similar claims to extreme heat. I frequently explain to people that any moron can make food extremely hot - just add more peppers.
It's making it so it tastes better as a consequence of the heat that's the art. I rarely use any form of liquefied tomatoes without a bit of heat. Most Asian dishes, as well. And, of course, mutli-bean curry.
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Slacker007 wrote: Serrano
If I had bought the seeds it would definitely have been Serrano. So abundent and, not being hollow, so much easier to slice and dice and whatever. The Jalapeno seeds were taken from a few I let get very thoroughly ripe (last summer) separated, cleaned, and dried.
Were I to pick only one, then indeed we're in agreement as to the heat level. Something that can be sliced fresh and put on a pizza. The length growing season, here, makes getting very ripe Habanaro touch-and-go. I'd like to save seeds to replant and share. I'm finishing off a second quart of Jalapeno sauce from last years crop.
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I wasn't even sure I was awake until I puked this morning. If I thought that was how life would be I'd have been an alcoholic.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Sickness in the morning -?-> Morning sickness?
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well I *am* trying to deliver some code...
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Dean Martin / Frank Sinatra / Jack Lemmon*: I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
* Delete as appropriate
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" These aren't Cuff Links, they're curb feelers!" Deano 
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codewitch honey crisis wrote: I wasn't even sure I was awake until I puked this morning. If I thought that was how life would be I'd have been an alcoholic.
I must not be quite following, because it sounds like you're saying you enjoyed it.
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No, i didn't enjoy it. I figure if this is how i'm to wake up, it would be better if it was because of a hangover. At least then I could have enjoyed being drunk the night before.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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A year after almost failing her high school physics class, a girl told her older brother,
"You know, my physics teacher was right about the optical Doppler effect. You see those cars. The lights of the ones approaching us are white, but the lights of the ones moving away from us are red."
I do all my own stunts, but never intentionally!
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Unless they are in reverse...
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From Viz's "Top Tips":
Quote: Save time when crossing a one way street by only looking in one direction
Mr. Smith, Fulchester
Further down the page:
Quote: Be sure to always look both ways when crossing a one way street in case a large blue furniture van is reversing the wrong way up it.
Mr Smith, Fulchester Hospital, Fulchester
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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...in which case it's still approaching you...
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...but showing a red shift light
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Munchies_Matt wrote: England, nope.
The only country without a national dress.
Are you mad? England has a National Dress!*
* Huge beer belly inside a couple of sizes too small England Football shirt, Pint of Lager, Packet of (illegal import) cigarettes in the left sleeve. Tattoos optional, but recommended.
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The national accessory in England is the umbrella!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Yes, we need something with which to beat all the foreigners. 
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Munchies_Matt wrote: Germans have their lederhosen...
That's like assuming that all americans wear cowboy hats. Sorry, but I better don't take any styling advice from you. Pickelhauben[^], for example don't go well with Lederhosen at all. 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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