> >Researcher Kevin Crosby, who inherited the habanero project when Villalon >retired, says his plants are only a few generations from perfection, which >means the milder pepper could be available to consumers in two years. >That's good news to marketers, bad news to "chile-heads" who fear the fire >is being bred out of peppers. <Ahem...> "O El Grande, may You protect us all from these Buttheaded Blasphemers, these Corruptors of Chiles, these Psychopathic Psylla. The do what they do for money, they intend on selling the Soul of the Habanero for mere profit, polluting strains of the Great Ones Seed simply to please those who consider tomato sauce, green bell pepper and onion "salsa". We ask you strike him and those like him down quickly, O Heavenly Chile Host, singe their arses and send them on their way to the heatless halls of frigid hell where Buffet and/or Randy Newman play 24/7, Bloody Marias taste like water, and the only action at the bar is named Bobbit. Save us, El Grande. Give 'em all a capsaicin enema (woo woo!!) and make them *feel* the light, baby". In El Grande's Name- Chile Peace, Hendrix, and Save the Habaneros....... Monk Rael