Now I'm beginning to understand why my "Hot Hot Hot Collection" is my best selling seed collection. Maybe I should add a couple more varieties and call it "Hot Hot Hot Hot" :-) Dave Anderson TLCC > Piri piri (swahili) simply means "hot hot" and in African > tradition the double use of a word is for emphasis. It would > be used to describe a chile, *any* chile that was hot, not a > particular type of sauce or dish. In exactly the same way the > english use of chile does not equal sauce. > > Interesting but not surprising the only other use of this double > word that I could find with a quick check was Arabic - > filfilakhmar = red chile. > > See Jean Andrews p9 > > So pili pili, piri piri.... sauce is "hot hot" sauce or chile > sauce. And chicken piri piri or piri piri chicken is chicken > cooked with chiles. > > Pili pili..piri piri on its own is a chile of no particular type. > ;-) > > Peter