Tina Brooks wrote: > No Dave, I don't know what they know. That's why I > raised the question. > As for tilting at windmills... Why pick up the > gauntlet to argue the point with me, if you don't know > the answer yourself? Mostly because y'all are hacking and slashing away at this thing like it is all one chile being in play when IN FACT it is about two different chilies - which I have stated here several times. Treating the NAGA Jolika and BHUT Jolika as the same pepper is akin to calling a Red Savina the same as a Scotch Bonnet or Gustoso ... on the basic that they sorta look the same and come from nearly the same ... Well, surely you can see what I mean. The reason I "picked up the gauntlet" as you put it is because this whole thing is a non-issue once you understand that we're talking about those different chilies. This whole exercise on my part has been an effort to get you to recognise and understand that. And to quit slamming Bosland over something that you don't understand - i.e. that the two chilies are different It makes no difference whether Dr. Bosland dissed the NAGA Jolika all those winters ago. The FACT is that the BHUT Jolika holds the Guinness Record as World's Hottest - at over 1 Million Scoville Heat Units. IIRC the NAGA Jolika was claimed to be in the 850 to 900 thousand SHU range. I could be wrong on that exact number as I am an oldish man and my memory sometimes plays tricks on me. But, that is the number that sticks in my head. And, my mouth likely wouldn't notice the difference between 900,000 and 1,000,000 SHU any more than my sweaty arse notices the difference between 100oF and 110oF on a summer's day. It's just bloody hot. Personally, the wonder of the whole thing is that the denizens of the sub-continent managed a cross between C. Chinense and C. Frutescens when conventional wisdom says that such do not and can not occur. Apparently conventional wisdom was wrong. -- ENJOY!!! -------- UNCLE DIRTY DAVE'S KITCHEN -- Home of Yaaaaa Hooooo Aaahhh!!! HOT SAUCE and Hardin Cider War has all the characteristics of a socialism most conservatives hate: Centralized power, state planning, false rationalism, restricted liberties, foolish optimism about intended results and blindness to unintended secondary results. -- JOSEPH SOBRAN (1991)