The jalapeños I find in Boston are indistinguishable from celery.
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@Migueldeicaza somehow this fits with the post telling me that vulture stomach acid has a pH of 1😏
@Migueldeicaza I didn’t know salsa came in anything except mild until I left Boston & moved to AZ 🌶️
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I need to try Boston Celery!
There is variation in heat levels but I think it’s probably much worse sense they started tweaking their breeding to find milder varieties for the sensitive palates
@Migueldeicaza I usually add a serrano or two to my salsa with the jalapeños for heat, and even *that* isn't what it used to be. We've had a little bit better luck getting peppers from our local Mexican market.
@Migueldeicaza Do we now actually, by default, have spicier jalapeños in Germany than in big parts of the USA? 🤯
(Germany's kind of known world-wide for being averse to spiciness in general too, so... 😅)
There are flavorful ones with a bit of kick and some that are truly spicy. But all have at least some level of spiciness.
(We also grow our own, so I'm attempting to compartmentalize this to just the store-bought and at restaurants. Our garden-grown ones are pretty spicy, of course.)
@garrett dunno, when I tried Mexican food in Germany I swore to never have it again.
@Migueldeicaza I lived in Boston for a few years about a decade ago and had the same complaint. Also the avocados in the super market were sometimes from Mexico and sometimes from California, and the ones from California were bigger, prettier and almost completely flavorless! I thought that was ironic given that in both cases they were Hass avocados, a cultivar developed in California!
It's Boston. You need heat levels acceptable to people of Irish decent.
Sorry about that.
As it turns out, it's the fault of Texas
https://www.southernliving.com/jalapenos-are-less-spicy-11768631
@ricci @SeanPLynch this is tragic. Wish they had a label “Jalapeños (nerfed)” at the store. Keep buying them, they keep not doing anything.
@Migueldeicaza @SeanPLynch my spouse, who has very low heat tolerance, has to be continuously convinced "hey look it's fine for me to put jalapenos in this dish! they're like basically little Anaheim chilies at this point"
Hah oops I see someone else beat me to it 😃
@ricci @SeanPLynch your piece had more details!
@SeanPLynch @Migueldeicaza I have eaten spicier boiled turnips
@Migueldeicaza I miss when the internet was more like this. Thank you
@Migueldeicaza like many things, it's Texas' fault
@Migueldeicaza homeopathic levels of heat
