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To: Mogollon
All the hot peppers in the world today can trace their origins to the Caribbean Islands.

All pecans are traceable to Texas.

10 posted on 07/09/2007 6:05:55 PM PDT by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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To: blam

Pecans and hot peppers...sounds like a good meal.


12 posted on 07/09/2007 6:12:59 PM PDT by elhombrelibre (Democrats even want foreign terrorists to be treated like US citizens. Their love is misplaced.)
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To: blam

“....All the hot peppers in the world today can trace their origins to the Caribbean Islands....”

What is your source for that?

All I have read points to the Chiltepin as the ancestor of modern Chiles. The Chiltepin grows wild from central Mexico to Arizona.

I love them—I swallow a couple whole every day, like vitamins.


36 posted on 07/10/2007 6:50:45 AM PDT by Renfield
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