Ruth Haffly wrote in a message to Shawn Highfield:

RH> Some can take it, others can't. I was reading an article in today's
RH> paper about a pepper grower who has developed a Pepper X with a
RH> Scoville Unit # of 2,700,000. He said it took him 6 hours to recover
RH> from eating one. Now that is one hot pepper!

I saw that interview with him.  He's a machine for sure, now he can eat them on command and doesn't break a sweat. hahahaha

RH> and HI. Getting older, moving (further) away from pepper growing
RH> territory, changing my eating habits, etc have toned down my heat
RH> level.

Just living with Andrea and Bob has brought my heat level way down.

RH> Popcorn was an easy and inexpensive snack in college too. Seemed
RH> that almost every night the smell of corn popping would waft thru
RH> the halls. (G)

Oh so true.

Shawn
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