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[artemis]

A very old lady from Throssil

found a mighty peculiar fossil

She could tell by the bend

and the knob at the end

Twas the peter of Paul the Apostle

 

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[artemis]

And so on.

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[artemis]

Third harvest from Habanero bush pending.

Five peppers the first time

Seven the next

Over two dozen this time.  Hand pollination made the difference.  And due to the recent dry spell (maybe), they're hotter than a bushel of peter peckers.

 

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[artemis]

The peter peppers were a gift from my sister in law.

They came up every year for her mother, with no care whatsoever.

The old lady enjoyed using them to amuse tourists from Iowa, or even Belgium.

They died out after she did, but my daughter managed to source some seeds and gave them to my sister in law.

Now they are re-established on the bayou.

Such is the cycle of life.

[TheGreenOne]

Looks a bit like a flaccid scorpion pepper.

 

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[TheGreenOne]

Put yer stinger in the wrong place and suffer the consequences

 

 

[artemis]

That's a Carolina Reaper.  It's supposedly the world's hottest pepper, surpassing the previous champion, the Ghost Pepper.  My understanding of the reaper is that it's a Frankenstonian thing, created in a lab, or what passes for a lab in botany.  Habaneros are hot enough for me, and these new hybrids are rooted in Habanero genes anyway.  The Peter Peppers are pretty hot themselves, and anatomically correct, but the flavor isn't to my liking, or wasn't the last time I tried one.  No, I did not suck on it.

[TheGreenOne]

Since it's made by the PuckerButt Pepper Company, I'm not sure that sucking is the issue. I'm guessing someone will create a hotter pepper sooner rather later but I'm waiting for some joker to engineer the capsicum genes into Erythroxylum coca.

[artemis]

I meant that I didn't suck a peter.  No way I would put any chinense pepper, let alone a reaper, into my mouth or any other orifice.  Even Tabasco peppers, right off the bush, will make your stomach jump up to your teeth in protest if you put a whole one into your mouth.  You can't judge them by Tabasco sauce, which is mostly vinegar.  I doubt there is even one whole pepper in each of those little Tabasco bottles.

The Habaneros are best handled with gloves, and cooked outside.  I used 12 in my latest batch, about a pint.  About half that many previously.

[TheGreenOne]

I like chinense peppers, even very hot ones. The bit about eating whole ones though, I wouldn't do that with a jalapeno let alone a reaper

 

[artemis]

I'm waiting for some joker to engineer the capsicum genes into Erythroxylum coca.

 

No doubt a Jewish mad scientist is circumcising peter peppers as we speak.  Probably looks like Gene Wilder.

[TheGreenOne]

And if I'm at a back alley noodle stall somewhere and find out it serves a something that translates as death spicy, I'm not ordering it.

[artemis]

Why is your chest all red?

 

Orgasm.

 

Oozing boogie syndrome.

 

But those two probably ooze gray matter from their nostrils on a regular basis.

[artemis]

https://en.wikipedia...ki/Peter_pepper

 

Mom in law had huge bushes of them in her back yard.  They were just for show; nobody ate them as far as I know.  Every year for forty years or more they came back strong in Spring from fruits that had fallen the previous season.  Didn't realize until now that they are considered rare, pretty much confined to Louisiana and Texas.

[TheGreenOne]

Esophageal Rupture After Ghost Pepper Ingestion

[TheGreenOne]

This case serves as an important reminder of a potentially life-
threatening surgical emergency initially interpreted as discomfort after
a large spicy meal.

[Bognoz]

"What's the matter with you,

you wanna get a schwannoma

lodged in yer throat?"

[TheGreenOne]

[Bognoz]

A weird absintheur named ever so aptly Fartsmear

repeatedly drank unrectified wormwood in Everclear

he'd gag and he'd choke

as if sucking a bloke

butt now he can empty a bottle of chili valkyria without fear.

[TheGreenOne]

Ha!