Re: [CH] Learning the Heat (was Kudos)

Rob Solarion (solarion@sbcglobal.net)
Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:27:17 -0500 

This list sure has "perked up" in the last couple 
of weeks.  I used to get a digest only about once 
a month.  Now I am getting two a day!  It is most 
interesting to read all the recent comments. 
I'll damn sure try the jalapenos stuffed with 
olive and cheese, and the olives stuffed with 
jalapenos (which can be quite expensive compared 
to regular olives -- and I love the ones stuffed 
with garlic).

As for Alex's question below, let me say that I 
was in VN during the war.  I was a refugee 
officer and translator for the American Embassy 
in Saigon.  I studied the VN language for 6 hours 
a day, 5 days a week, for 11 months before going 
to Saigon.  I was fluent.  As such, I found out a 
lot from VN friends that English-speakers only 
never knew.  I grew up in Texas and have eaten 
hot food all my life.  Very few people can eat 
more hot peppers than I, and yes, I have heard 
that old maid's tale that I have "burned up" my 
taste buds and can't taste the "flavor" of the 
food.  Total bull!  Anyway, back during the war 
and I presume still today, VN restaurants placed 
a little bowl of so-called "Thai" or "birdseye" 
peppers in the center of all the tables -- those 
little round ones that are hot as hell.  Those 
who liked it hot could spoon some of these 
peppers into their soup or whatever.  They looked 
so pretty floating on top of a bowl of hu-tieu or 
pho.  My VN lunch/dinner partners were amazed at 
how many of them I could eat, and I loved to show 
off.

Also, we would often host cocktail parties on the 
front lawn of our compound.  The colonel would 
erect a huge orange and white parachute over the 
lawn, and we would put up tables with snacks and 
drinks.  We always put a couple of bowls of 
either Evangline or Trappey's hot pickled peppers 
out as appetizers.  The VN guests absolutely 
loved them!  They were gone before anything else. 
Rob

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Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:27:59 +0000
From: Alex Silbajoris <asilbajo@hotmail.com>
Subject: [CH] Learning the Heat (was Kudos)

>  From: dougandmarie@shaw.ca

>That was away back in 1945-46, when I was 20, 
>and he was 24, just back from Guam!

That makes me wonder, how many veterans came home 
from WWII, Korea, and Viet Nam, with a new-found 
taste for hot peppers they discovered in Asia?


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