I have a sneaking feeling that the folk down in the Indian sub continent, are indulging in(a) an imaginary heat measurement. (b) they have their atomic energy turned up too high and are reading it. (c)have bombed out on too much kari. Being that this is BC, we do have an awful lot of East Indians living here. Without being racialy discriminatory, some of them do tend to exagerate, just a tiny bit! And who told me that? A very dear and close Canadian born friend, whose ancestors came from the punjab! Cheers, Doug in BC peter gaffney wrote: > LOL! > the author must be joking! > <<The Scoville scale is named after German scientist Wilbur > Scoville ...>> like a Scotsman named Fritz Schnauzer ... > wasn't W. Scoville a chemist working for Parke Davis in 1912? > peter g