J Beanz Fentner wrote; > Could be...but I've heard rumors that even people in Maine eat the > occasional chile pepper...and it gets colder than the North side of a > South bound witch up there. Them rumors are true. > More likely it's just 'cause chile peppers grow wild and in great > variety in tropial climates. The local populations just had more > opportunity to use them in the days when everybody ate what they could > grow and the soopermarkets were closed on the weekends. Just like how Mainiacs eat more cod and lobster cuz that's what we have here. > JB "o"o====" > On the other hand, the Mainiacs say they don't perspire either... That's right..... we sweat.......... like pigs..... playing Twister. -- Kit