Re: [CH] Purple jalapenos = bad?
RisaG (radiorlg@home.com)
Sat, 9 Dec 2000 18:20:26 -0500
I wouldn't mind. I grow purple Bolivian Rainbow chiles and they are
wonderful. I think they aren't selling to the right folks - chile-heads
don't mind what color the chiles are - yellow, orange, red, green,
purple...fine with all of us.
RisaG
----- Original Message -----
From: "Coyote" <coyote@calweb.com>
To: "CHILEHEADS" <chile-heads@globalgarden.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2000 12:44 PM
Subject: [CH] Purple jalapenos = bad?
> I was looking for an acticle I read on cnn about a wild chile pepper
> perserve in the southwest when i ran across this article:
> http://www.cnn.com/2000/FOOD/news/10/16/chili.science.ap/index.html
> The article is about inproving chile peppers after the problems with the
> 2000 season.
> Any way it the article it says:
> "Bosland picked out a purple jalapeno from the small sea of jalapeno
> plants in the greenhouse.
>
> 'This purple trait, we have to get rid of that,' he said. 'People want
> certain kinds of chilies. People just don't buy a jalapeno that's
> purple. You want it green and that's just the way it is.' ... "
>
> I think purpple jalapenos would be cool. That's way I grow diffrent
> colored peppers.
> Is the geneeral public so set on things that a purpple jalapeno would
> not sell?
>
> What do you chyilieheads think?
>
> Coyote
> Howlin for Habaneros
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