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Originally Posted by Esther B.
Forgive me for my lack of understanding, dear Sister, but how is his dislike of something a bad thing? In my weak, womanly mind, I would have taken it as a bad thing if he enjoyed eating habaneros frequently. Every person that I've met with Mexican blood has enjoyed eating hot peppers as a snack. I mean no disrespect, but I would like to see where you are coming from.
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For a normal human being, what makes us not enjoy
habanero peppers is the immense
heat. If Don Juan can actually detect a
flavor of the
habanero pepper amidst the
burning, that means he's not a normal human being.
You see, dear, there are
hot peppers and there are
really hot peppers. In your stroll through the grocery store, you may notice a variety of shapes and colors. Among the most common ones,
jalapeño peppers are some of the
mildest (I eat them whole and
barely feel a kick, as going on missions to ungodly South America has killed most of my taste buds).
Serrano peppers would be the
next level of heat, they are good in a variety of recipes, but I would not recommend eating them whole. Caution when handling them is recommended.
Habanero peppers are among the hottest that you'd find in a regular (non-Mexican) supermarket/grocery store. Using gloves when handling them (cutting, removing seeds) is not just recommended but practically required, as they will
burn your hands and whatever body part you touch with your hands (burning in the eyes is especially
painful). Also, try not to breathe too close to an open
habanero, because that stuff is
painful in your respiratory system as well. And it will get to your eyes through air, too.
Anything
hotter than
habanero is
plain torture.
Ghost peppers mentioned by Dolli are
used by the Indian military instead of tear gas (in the East Indies, not on the reservations; also please note that this article was written when
ghost pepper still held the Guinness Record for
the world's hottest pepper). Now, you may not have noticed the sarcasm in the original post by Dolli and my subsequent reply, so let me spell out it for you:
yes there was sarcasm.
Ghost pepper may no longer hold the Guinness Record as
the world's hottest pepper, but it still is
excruciatingly hot.