Heheh, "Using Shoe's newly favorited hat icon!" Yeh, that one's a keeper! (Course now, I'm one of those throwback males who still tends to tip my hat to certain elders, even if it's just a quick wiggle of my cap brim!)
Thanks for the new photo, Dave. I didn't mean to stir up trouble mentioning the jalapeno pic.
By the way, yesterday I learned a new pepper tidbit. I have some great Hispanic friends up the road from me and also have (or had!) a large bag of jalapeno peppers in my shoffice, freshly picked. Since I can only pickle so many I called them to ask if they would like some; their answer was a definite YES with the addition of "I'm a jalapeno". I had to ask "say what?".
After a few more sentences with both of us trying to understand each other (I don't speak much Spanish and they speak broken Southern, the latter being my chosen language, similar to the English language
) I finally learned my friends are from Halapa, a town in Vera Crus, Mexico (and sometimes seen spelled as Jalapa, or the original spelling of Xalapa. It turns out the people of Halapa are known as Halapeno (jalapenos) AND it is where the now-famous jalapeno pepper is known to have originated or maybe was first cultivated. So, a lesson out of the blue from a true Halapeno about jalapenos, eh?
Thanks again for the article, Sharon. I'll have to now go find friends who are from "Cayenne" or wherever that might be, eh?
Shoe (looking forward to Dave's pic of Trish's string of cayennes..hint hint)
