[Market-farming] Chili Roasters

Pat Meadows pat at meadows.pair.com
Sun Feb 17 11:13:55 EST 2008


On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 09:44:35 -0600, you wrote:

>I have seen people lined up to get roasted chiles.
>During Chile harvest in New Mexico The shopping malls
>Parking lots Have Chile roasters on trailers. People buy them by the bushel. 
>Personally I think they smell great. Fresh tortilla and hot roasted chiles, 
>little lime juice,Is good food. Bill
>

Yep, I know.  I'd have a real problem if I tried to live in New Mexico!  Or
Arizona too, probably.  (I'll never live there anyway, so that's OK.)

It's not the smell, the smell is great - I'm not objecting to it as a
smell.  It's the fact that I *cannot breathe* when I am exposed to it.

I know I'm not alone in this, because of pepper gas.  It's made from
capsicums, hot peppers.  It will stop people or even charging bears dead in
their tracks.  (Although I wouldn't count on it in the case of bears.)
Roasting hot peppers gives off the same molecules; just fewer of them at a
time.  The effect will vary depending on each person's sensitivity to it.

Pat
-- Northern Pennsylvania
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