In a message dated 05/17/2000 8:35:42 PM Eastern Daylight Time, owner-chile-heads-digest@globalgarden.com writes: << > Yesterday, Linda and I were browsing a fabric store. While we were there > anyway, we asked whether they had any chile pepper print fabric. The sales > lady said no, that chile pepper thing ran its course >> I just had to chime in on this topic--the funny thing about loving hot sauce as much as I do: people have purchased me every pepper item known to man, as well as quite a few bottles of hot sauce (I have a collection of about 150 or so--my top shelf includes Andy's Spitfire, from Antiqua, bottle in a snapple bottle with a very fine juice lid). Many of the items were okay, cute, but I love hot sauce, not necessarily the look of every chile pepper item! I love hot sauce so much that I started a gourmet sauce company, with a very special roasted habanero hot sauce. Everyone congratulated me on: starting my own hot sauce company. Nowadays, since my office is covered in "hot" items, people started to get more and more creative: blown glass plates, with sand designed in the chili design, hand paintings, collectible Tabasco posters...I got to tell you, though I still love anything HOT, I'm a little over the "pepper" thing. Janis