I must confess. I too get a lot of heat from friends and family. Mostly just joking, but sometimes it can be irritating. My food preferences are similar to my music preferences. I have a favorite group (Rush if anyone cares), but they are certainly not the only ones I listen to, just the ones I listen to, and enjoy, the most. With food, it is chiles and food with chiles that I eat, and enjoy, the most. But definitely not the only stuff I eat. Everyone one in my family thinks that I can't or won't eat food without chiles, that I sit around a munch chiles by the handfuls as a snack (they're almost right) and that everything HAS to be scorching, searing, painfully hot. That would not be so bad if they would take the time to understand how I feel about chiles, instead of treating it as a joke or some bizarre eccentric behavior that they tolerate. Um, sorry. I really didn't mean to rant. Just that it rubs me the wrong way sometimes. George J. Goslowsky Monk of the TCS Holder of Fire I gotta chose my family members more carefully.