Re: [CH] Chili Powder as a weapon?
Linda Hutchinson (lipant@sympatico.ca)
Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:00:48 -0400
I sure wouldn't want you around my cats! if you say "houseplants", these
are indoors and these are your own cats..... !!
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From: Jonathan Smillie
To: chile-heads@globalgarden.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: [CH] Chili Powder as a weapon?
I have found a solution of finely powdered habanero in water, applied with a
spray bottle, to be an excellent deterrent to cats who would otherwise chew
houseplants to bits.
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From: Uncle Steve <UncleSteve@ushotstuff.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:28:57
To: <chile-heads@globalgarden.com>
Subject: Re: [CH] Chili Powder as a weapon?
I have been using Naga Jolokia powder as a weapon
in the war against critters eating my chile
plants and beans. Works very good, but you need
to reapply after each rain. Wish I could capture
on video a deer munching off the top of a plant
coated with the Naga powder! Be a big hit on
youtube until peta sees it. Then I may be labeled
as an animal abuser. (no knuckle dragging
intended)
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>Chili Powder Added to Grenades
>
>Move over pepper spray. India's security forces
>are planning to make hand grenades that replace
>explosives with powder made from one of the
>world's hottest chilies. The chili, bhut
>jolokia, is said to generate 1,000,000 heat
>units on the Scoville scale, which measures
>hotness or piquancy of a pepper as defined by
>the amount of capsaicin in the pepper. (A bell
>pepper registers as a 0 on the Scoville scale,
>with almost no capsaicin; Habaņero chilies and
>Scotch Bonnet peppers registers between
>100,000-350,000; pure capsaicin registers on the
>scale at 15,000,000.) "We are working on a
>project on how to use the hottest chili in
>different applications in defense forces," said
>R.B. Srivastava, a senior scientist at the
>state-run Defense Research and Development
>Organization. Another idea percolating in the
>DRDO: the concept of using the hot chili as a
>food supplement as a means of raising the body
>temperatures of soldiers stationed in cold
>locales.
>Read it at Reuters
>Posted at 10:34 PM, Jun 30, 2009
>
>http://www.terryanddave.com/Terry
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>me." Ruth Reichl
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Enjoy the heat,
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