hotchile@nmsu.edu Paul Borsland, "closet chili heads who really do want the mild" That would be chilE-heads, and I don't know of a single one. The point seems to be one of having a nerdophile kitchen where there's no heat (as in Harry Truman's 'if you can't stand the heat...' ), or a warm snowball that won't hurt the dainty pinkies. As long as these abominations never cross pollinate, I couldn't care less. Non-stick fly paper on your research agenda? Or shineless shoe unpolish? Why not go all out and develop a smokeless Chipotle? We already have tepid coffee thanks to one lawsuit, pignoli-less pesto thanks to another. Soon the modern business mind will pull the crushed red pepper off the tables in Italian restaurants or turn to you to replace it with red confetti. Ughhhh-ly yours, Gareth Lynch Gareth the ChilEknight