Re: [CH] possible chocolate hab sighting

Jim Nelson (jmnelson@winfirst.com)
Sat, 02 Aug 2003 14:25:13 -0700 

Alex
That its raining in August in Sacramento (something that happens at 
least twice a millennium) and its a good fifty degrees cooler than it 
was last week at this time has induced a synaptic misfire that caused me 
to conclude that this question calls for a Supertramp lyric response.  

But before we get to that, I grow a variety some call a Congo that is 
also know as a long Chocolate Hab and that sounds close to what you 
refer to as the long dimpled pod. These dry marvelously by the way 
without the rot that happens to other hab pods.  I also grow something 
that looks like a basic orange hab that ripens to brown but not from 
green.  There is a third one that seems closer to what you describe and 
had a label on it as "Jamaica Chocolate" when I acquired it  that does 
have a time delay fuse.  Which brings us back to the Supertramp lyric 
response to a perfectly sensible question:
"Some they do and some they don't
And some you just can't tell.
Some they will and some they won't
And for some its just as well."

I am sure one of our more learned members will give you a more 
botanically accurate response but opportunities to quote Supertramp 
songs do not grow on trees or pepper bushes either for that matter.  Off 
to see if  we have evolved to a snow storm.

Jim the chilehead lawyer ( to distinguish himself from the more 
reputable and venerable Jim's on the list)


Alex Silbajoris wrote:

>
> Just got back from the Giant Eagle grocery, they had a kind of hab I 
> haven't seen in stores around here before.  I suspect they may be 
> chocolate ones that aren't quite ripe yet.  They are mottled like 
> apples, part green and part red, and when the colors mix they start to 
> look maroon/dark brown.  Also, they are shaped more like scotch 
> bonnets, multi-lobed like pumpkins instead of long with dimpled sides.
>
> I test-detonated some slices with plain cream cheese on a saltine 
> cracker.  The kick is a bit slow to come on, a bit disappiinting for a 
> moment, then WOW.
>
> So do chocolate habs go through a mottled color cycle like that?  I've 
> never grown them.
>
> - A
>
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