Several years ago I purchased several bell pepper plants from a nursery, planted them, watered them and waited for them to produce. All of the plants produced great looking bell peppers except for one. The one that didn't produce bell peppers had long, green and skinny peppers that I had never seen before. I waited until the long skinny peppers reached a stage that I thought would be ready to pick. I picked one, rinsed it off and took a big bite of it. For the first few seconds it tasted great, then all of a sudden my mouth telegraphed a message to my brain that all was not well. My mouth was on fire and nothing I could do would put that fire out. I had heard that eating bread would dilute the burn, didn't work. Lots of water didn't help much either. After about 5 minutes the burn reached a tolerable level. Lesson learned: I am a wimp when it comes to hot food, do not put things in your mouth that you are not familiar with (remembering things my Mother taught me), and now I know what jalapeño peppers look like.
Farwell