LEO/LHB Bonus Review: Hot? Not.

[Robin Garr]

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The currently trendy Habanero pepper, meaning "guy from Havana," is said to be one of the hottest peppers on Earth, or at least one of the hottest you can buy at your average grocery store. Food scientists measure its heat in the range of 300,000 Scoville units, which is 10 times the strength of a Cayenne pepper, 100 times that of a jalapeño and a gazillion times that of a green bell pepper. Or, in less technical terms, "Wooooeeee!"

Naturally when I saw an advertisement for Skyline Chili's EXTREME Habañero cheese - inscrutably spelled with a tilde over the "ñ," an affectation not known in the pepper's Cuban homeland - I had to try some right now.

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Skyline Chili
4024 Dutchmans Lane
895-7578
(and four other metro locations)
http://www.skylinechili.com

Naturally when I saw an advertisement for Skyline Chili's EXTREME Habañero cheese - inscrutably spelled with a tilde over the "ñ," an affectation not known in the pepper's Cuban homeland - I had to try some right now.

i was once sitting in a bar with a fellow cook friend of mine (who happens to be Puerto Rican) we were looking at the specials board... and i pointed out the tilde over habanero on one of the specials...

still to this day we have a running joke about "there's no f-ing en-ye in this dish!".

i can't help but laugh everytime, because we get so sarcastically serious about it... and make it out to be a special ingredient or something of that nature.

Thanks for the reminder, Robin.
I'll run the joke on him next time i see him.