[CH] Chickens & Peppers

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Dear ChileHeads :

Thanks for all the comments about feeding hot peppers to birds and cats,
etc.  There is a legend in my family, and after reading all the comments
about how birds like to eat hot peppers, I am wondering if it is true - but
- my grandmother and various descendants of hers tell us that my Uncle
Roberto, after whom I was named, when he was growing up on the farm, used
to go out to the garden, pick some hot peppers and feed them to the
chickens in the back yard.  The chickens supposedly would run all over the
place, squawking from "pain" or whatever.  The whole family used to watch
them and laugh like hell about this - but - after reading the comments at
ChileHeads, I am wondering if that "legend" is just a "family myth."  Maybe
those chickens were actually "in ecstasy" after eating all those hot
peppers, rather than in the "pain" that my grandmother recounted.

The chickens probably had the last laugh.  Too bad my grandmother is dead.
I would love to inform her, "I told you so."  Ahhhhh, life can be very
sweet and ironic sometimes.

Regards, Roberto

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