Re: [CH] What's this?

Mark McHugh (mchugh@bhil.com)
Wed, 02 Sep 1998 21:32:47 -0500

Pieters, Rob (NL01) wrote:
> 
>         >Would anyone of you chile pros please check my scans at the
> following
>         >address:
>         >http://www.blennow.se/980830/index.html
>         >Is this a Habanero? Bought it at the local market under the silly
>         >name of "Turbo Pepper". And it is surely VERY hot... The selections
> 
>         >of chiles here in Sweden is normally somewhat limited.
> 
> > Regards,
> > Kristofer
> >
> Kristofer,
> 
> I'm not the best expert on the list but it's looking like a Habanero.
> About the name... well here in Holland they also give strange names to
> peppers.
> I think it's more a less give some information on the heat.
> 80% here doesn't know the dif. between an hab and a bell pepper... well,
> they will never forget it when they have mixed them up once....
> 
>         Hot regards
>         Rob

I went to the above-mentioned site and it has the words "August 30-
Habanero Day" directly above the pepper pic!  Amen, take a bite of each
and relish the difference!

-- 
Mark McHugh

Omnia quia sunt, lumina sunt.  E=mc˛