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˛