January 11 2023 Chile Pepper Fun Fact - Demon’s Spice Administrator Chile Pepper Fun Fact - Demon’s Spice The Power of Chiles Compels You... Chile peppers are considered the ‘Demon’s Spice’ in southern Italy. However, some locals use it for personal protection, or to protect your car or your house from the evil eye and gossipe [..]
January 11 2023 Chile Pepper Fun Fact - The Datil Chile Pepper Administrator Chile Pepper Fun Fact - The Datil Chile Pepper The Official Chile Pepper of St. Augustine, Florida A datil pepper is a small hot pepper found in great abundance locally here in St. Augustine. The pepper is a variety of the species Capsicum Chinese also known as "yellow lantern chili. [..]
January 11 2023 Chile Pepper Fun Fact - Corking, Not Just in Wine Administrator Chile Pepper Fun Fact - Corking, Not Just in Wine Chile peppers can get stretch marks? Corking on jalapeño peppers appears as scaring or minor striations on the surface of the pepper skin. When you see jalapeño skin cracking in this manner, it simply means that it needs to st [..]
January 11 2023 Chile Pepper Fun Fact - Colorado vs. New Mexico Administrator Chile Pepper Fun Fact - Colorado vs. New Mexico My Chile Peppers are better. No way, mine are way better than yours... The heated rivalry between Colorado and New Mexico is a hot one! It’s over Hatch versus Pueblo chile. And it's a heated debate... Heated, get it. The battle be [..]
January 11 2023 Hot Sauce Fun Fact - All-Encompassing Brand Names Administrator Hot Sauce Fun Fact - All-Encompassing Brand Names People ask for a Coke, Kleenex and Tabasco... But these are brand names and not actually an all-encompassing view of what products they actually are. Tabasco is, in fact, the brand name of the American-made product, a very specific red-pep [..]
January 11 2023 Chile Pepper Fun Fact - Cinco de Mayo Administrator Chile Pepper Fun Fact - Cinco de Mayo Happy Cinco de Mayo! This holiday celebrates the date of the Mexican army’s May 5, 1862, victory over France at the Battle of Puebla during the Franco-Mexican War. While it is a relatively minor holiday in Mexico, in the United States, Cinco de M [..]
January 11 2023 Chile Pepper Fun Fact - Christopher Columbus Administrator Chile Pepper Fun Fact - Christopher Columbus The Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria and Chile Peppers? Chile peppers are eaten by a quarter of the earth’s population every day, in countries all over the globe. They are perennial shrubs belonging to the Capsicum fam [..]
January 11 2023 Hot Sauce Fun Fact - Great Pyramid of Cholula Administrator Hot Sauce Fun Fact - Great Pyramid of Cholula Cholula is named after an ancient city but isn't made there... Cholula is an ancient city steeped in incredible history. It's home to the Great Pyramid of Cholula, an Aztec structure that is the biggest pyramid in the world. The 2,500-year [..]
January 11 2023 Chile Pepper Fun Fact - Chinese Tree Shrew Administrator Chile Pepper Fun Fact - Chinese Tree Shrew The Taming of the Shrew? Or at least their heat tolerance... Can you eat as many chili peppers as a Chinese tree shrew? Probably not. A recent study found that these tree shrews are the only mammal aside from humans known to deliberately seek out s [..]
January 11 2023 Chile Pepper Fun Fact - Chile Pepper Myth and Legend Administrator Chile Pepper Fun Fact - Chile Pepper Myth and Legend The ritual uses of the genus Capsicum range from the innocuous to the murderous, but the fiery pods are always powerful. In astrology, the chile pepper falls under the dominion of Mars, ancient god of war, so that should be some indication of r [..]
