Do you think it is odd for someone to eat hot peppers for breakfast?

Not at all! Once, when I was starving (many years ago), I would have eaten an advertisement for Tabasco Sauce right out of the magazine! A couple of drops were pictured falling on a fried egg. Back then, I didn't even like hot sauce but now I use it with my eggs all the time!!
Hmmm... The power of advertising!

That seems odd if they are just eating the peppers alone. If the peppers are cooked into an omelet or something, then it wouldn't seem odd at all.

Yes, if that's all they eat for breakfast. No, if they are eating them with eggs or something.

Yes.

I think it's odd to think this is odd.

As I said in qual, it depends a lot on things such as culture, etc.

i think it might be a little odd if that's all you're eating, but hey, whatever floats your boat

I can't see how hot peppers would be enough of a breakfast.....I could see eating them with eggs and toast and bacon or ham as an accompaniment.

Yes, I think it is really very strange.

No. Have whatever you want for breakfast.

i depends.... i like chinese sometimes in the morning, and there's often really hot peppers in it, but if you're talking about just eating the peppers by themselves, then ya, that's odd.

NO! not odd at all. When mine get to growing in my garden I'll be eating them all the time with my breakfast.

> hey, whatever floats your boat

I love that saying, I use it all the time!

Nope! In fact, I just had a piece of pizza with pepperoni and mild banana peppers on it.

I was thinking the same thing. If the peppers are cooked into something, it could be quite good!

No. Not at all. Hot peppers are good for you. They're good in omelets too. I use ground cayenne and other pepper ingredients on nearly everything I eat.

Yes.
But then again I used to eat raw herrings for breakfast so I shouldn't talk.

When I first read your comment I pictured pizza with pepperoni and banana!

Maybe you were a seal in a past life.

BTW, dora, I've noticed that your English is impeccable these days! It was always very good, but now I don't think anyone reading your comments would have any clue that English is not your first language. I envy your bilingual abilities!

I still make a lot of mistakes...and my accent is still funny but you don't know. I want it to stay funny somehow, I hate those who affect accents.

My boyfriend laughs at me because I pronounce "hip" "eep"...I know it's "hip", but I forget it and I say "eep" .

That's very cute!

Now, that WOILD be strange!

Hey, anyway, I bet your accent is sexy, so don't go trying to get rid of it.

I do it often.
Scrambled eggs - chipotle alfredo is a favorite of mine.

I love the flavor of chipotles! I just discovered them a year or so ago.

They were new for me three year ago. I never even bother with jalapenos anymore.

No.....

I saute some onion, jalapeno, serrano and habanero peppers and mushrooms for ASBT to have over his eggs for Breakfast. I also salt and pepper the mixture and add a little habanero sauce for an added kick. If I have some ham around I will dice it up and add to the mixture. If it makes him sweat I know I made it good

I make variations of this mixture for fajitas and for stuffing into pablano peppers
It is too hot for me but ASBT loves it.

nope - whatever you like for breakfast is fine by me!

"Chipotle peppers are the name for fully ripe red jalapeno peppers that have been smoked."

http://lesleycooks.tripod.com/chipotlepeppers.htm

Well, they do taste warmer (more savory), less ..bitter? ..acidic? (no right word here). I guess it's like difference between a green and the sweeter red bell pepper. Just at the edge of sweating is good.

chipoodle

me too!

Yum! I saw some habanero salsa on sale yesterday and almost bought it, but decided to wait since we already have salsa. I bet it's really hot!

They are smoked and sometimes roasted and dehydrated. Roasting or maybe even smoking might cause carmalization which would be sweet. I have not seen these at my local grocery. I will have to keep an eye out for them so ASBT can try them He wants a pepper hotter than a habanero

Is that a new breed of dog?

I bet it would be too hot for me. I suffer great pains to cook for ASBT that pepper juice will not wash off sometimes. If I touch my face I am in for hours of pain There have been times I have washed my hands a dozen times and bite my nail or something and I start feeling the burn.

Decidedly odd

You haven't tried chipotles? The smoky flavor is really good, and they are a little hot. Definitely not hotter than a habanero though! Habaneros are the hottest peppers, aren't they?

I tried using latex gloves when I was chopping fresh jalapeños so I wouldn't get the juice on my hands, but then I had the horrible latex smell on my hands. That was worse to me than the risk of rubbing my eye with jalapeño residue! (In fact, I just realized I'm making a face as I type, remembering how icky the latex smell was! )

Habaneros are the hottest ones I know of. If you find some hotter ones let me know so I can feed them to Dave Jalapeno don't both me but them habaneros are a dog!!!

There was a damn hot dried pepper in a beef dish I shared with my brother-in-law at a Chinese restaurant, but I don't know what kind it was. Nobody told me I was supposed to pick those out! It was like chewing on a shrimp shell, and I chewed it up and swallowed it before the heat hit. I think there was steam blowing out of my ears! I don't like stuff THAT hot! It was painful!

no my sisters boyfriend eats jalapenos in his eggs

Good god I would never eat one!!!! hot peppers and me just don't mix. I try to get Dave to cut the habaneros so I don't have to be in pain. Dave eats um like they are nothing. I would be so miserable!!!

They help clear your sinuses.

Our California supermarkets have have bins of diverse fresh peppers, and the canned section stocks several brands of diverse peppers, mole, nopalitos (cactus), etc. (oh, and a whole aisle of salsas) I recall in contrast going to canada where we were lucky to find one brand of salsa, beans, and tortillas on the bottom of a remote aisle (so Georgé, Jésus, and his wife Maria don't starve, I guess).

My recipe for a habonero sauce: crush haboneros in a jar of scotch and olive oil, and steep on a woodstove for three days.

I think those thin long red ones found in chinese food are a type of serranto pepper, but most serrantos in cans are much milder than the ones those chinese seem to find. Did you ever see the simpsons episode at the chile fest where Homer ate some halucinogenic pepper which looked like a radioactive coral snake?

Odd in the not normal sense, yes. Odd in the I-think-you-should-seek-help-because-you're-a-freak sense, no.

Of course 'odd in the I-think-you-should-seek-help-because-you're-a-freak sense' types could eat them for breakfast too.
I lived with a (albino) ratty briefly (because of my guest). I bought her a birdcage and made her a wheel (which she hasn't used), before the guest gave her to the neighbor downstairs.

Have you ever tried Dave's insanity sauce? ASBT says it is the hotest sauce out there.

Yes, and I'm fairly sure I've had hotter. I was dissappointed when my bro said the same thing and had me try some.

I would love to get something hotter for ASBT he loves the stuff so much. I tell him all the time he is addicted to the adrenaline rush.

No, I never saw that episode, but I bet it was a funny one!

Do you not enjoy the heat of peppers in your food, or is it a heartburn problem, or both? I love spicy hot food to an extent, but not the really hot stuff. I have a limit!

A talking spirit fox guides his soul-searching though Incan desserts which turn out later to be a golf course and playground equipment.
After he comes down, the spirit fox still makes brief appearances. Yeah, it was fun.

Our ratties never liked wheels either. I think they were too clever for them - knew they weren't getting anywhere. They did like ropes with knots in them tied in loops from the top of the cage when they were little though.

Nope. I put hot sauce on *plain* bagels and cream cheese. Too bland, otherwise.

I don't enjoy them at all. For me peppers=pain. As far as the heartburn goes. I have not had a single case of heartburn since I started atkins Which is amazing to me because I have had GERD and taken medication for it every day for at least 3 years.

nope...excellent for circulation

there is also somethigs called 'triple x' hot sauce, or 'endorphin rush'
SUPER hot stuff...heyzeus absolutely loves the hot stuff, but the triple x and endorphin you can only use in small amounts, like a drop...
he also likes to tell a story that when he live in arizona, he worked at a place called 'cluck you chicken'. anyways, they made hot wings there, and the hottest of the hot came w/ a disclaimer that the customer had to sign before actually getting them. he says that one could MAYBE get down one whole one..crazy..
see if you can find the 'x' or endorphin for asbt...i think he'll enjoy!!

Thanks for the tip, I will see if I can find some

Alone or with a breakfast burrito?

Are you gravitating more towards a specialty. Is the dorm still noisy? Are you dating? Do they make you wear shoes?

A speciality in what? In my subject? I'm mostly headed towards tropical disease at the moment. I like macroparasites and insect vectors. I'm doing an entomology course this week in fact, and thinking of signing on for some voluntary work at the university museum sorting bugs. Spending time with the strange entomologists is a bit of a drawback though.

Where I'm living this year is much quieter than last year. It's not right in the city centre so there aren't random drunks going by. At about 1am there are a load of people coming back from the clubs, but if I'm asleep I mostly don't wake up now. No noisy neighbours this year either. We don't have a water supply at the moment though - some people who were digging up the road managed to cut through the water mains and it won't be fixed until tomorrow morning at least. We've had to go out to buy bottled water just so we can brsh our teeth and not dehydrate too much (iwe're having a bit of a heatwave).

No dating at the moment and no possibilities on the horizon. Oxford's full of Christians and Tories, neither of which appeal - and some people are Christian Tories! Life's good though

As for the shoes We have to wear them for exams and certain formal events because we have a specific dress code/uniform, but I don't think anyone would throw me out for turning up to lectures shoeless. I'd probably get funny looks though, and justifiably so given all the vomit and broken glass I'd have to risk stepping in one my way through town! I'm very sensitive about my poor feet right now after managing to trip over my cheese-grater yesterday. It combined bending my toe into a position it really didn't want to be in and grating off most of the skin. I keep having silly accidents like that (on Saturday, I got my finger stuck in a dustbin...)

How are you?

I have heard of people grating fingers but never toes

I know - I feel like such a plonker!

I bet you won't keep your grater on the floor any time soon

It's in my sink right now, but it'll be on my floor tomorrow morning when I want to brush my teeth!

Are you in need of some shelving?

Wow, let's hear it for Atkins!

let me get this straight, you want to sort bugs, but are worried about hanging out with folks who choose to sort bugs? We're having a heatwave too. I find I don't like to eat when it's too hot, just drink all day. A couple days ago I distilled a quart of water. I'm not sure which costs more, a quart of water or simmering the stove for a couple hours. Water costs at least as much as soda here, and distilled tap water tastes much better than straight from the tap. Yow , always these foot tragedies. I recall my brother-in-law having to wear shoes in chemistry lab.
I'm good, lot's going on, going to a corporate reform activist movie tomorrow, hanging out with good friends, working on projects without much distraction/confusion/procrastination, like a tandem bike moped conversion and online tarot software. One friend just gave me a mountain of bizarre clothes. One blouse is like a stretchy puffer fish or a collage of pyramidal flower buds. Kinda gotta heatwave hangover.

Send us some heat we had frost warnings last night I hope my plants survived.

good luck on your search!

Oh yes!

The entomologists are a bit...I don't know. They're friendly and they teach well but they're a bit off-putting. An odd pair.

Our heatwave is pretty much over. Well, it's still hot, but there;s no sunshine. I'm quite relieved actually. I'm not ready for summer yet! It makes me not want to eat much too, or just eat light food like salads but that's so difficult to have in all the time. I think I'll have pasta tonight.

Water here is generally fairly tasty. Yorkshire Water is the best, filtered through the peat of the Peak District and through limestone - lovely stuff I would hate to not have good water on tap.

How does a tandem bike moped conversion work? Are you taking bits from each to form some kind of super-bike, or somehow joining the two together?

I think I've seen material like the stuff your blouse is made of - kind of crinkly and hard looking coming out in little nubs all over? I saw a lot of t-shirts made from it about a year ago - looked like it could be uncomfortable to wear.

If one is eating hot peppers with or in something - it is not at all odd.Thinking it is odd would be odd.
If one is eating hot peppers by themselves, just here's a dish of hot peppers. That is odd. I've seen a person pop a jalapeno in her mouth and just eat it straight. It was odd, very odd.
I think the Iron Chef guy is a very little odd for taking a bite out of a yellow pepper at the beginning of the show.

Where are you?

I'm attaching an electric motor and a small gas motor to the back half of the frame. Those will drive a flywheel mounted in a fork where the rear seatpost was, and that in turn will drive a gear on the rear crank. If I do steam, the pistons will go from the seatpost down to the cranks where the rear pedals had been.

Our water is filtered through biomass (algae) which soaks up much of the bio and chemical waste. That in turn is used as (probably poisonous) fertilizer. Supposedly the same happens with our sewage. I think our society has reached a point where we should indeed be recycling our water and not relying upon our oceans and rain clouds to do the job. Perhaps our water processing should be paid for through industrial taxes. That would encourage them to set strict industrial standards on their own pollution to cut purification costs (as long as there were legal minimum tap-water standards).

There are a lot of problems with recycling water. In the centre of the south of England where there's not so much rain, they recycle a lot of water. A lot more boys are growing "breasts" because recycled sewer water has a lot of oestrogen in it from women urinating who are on the pill.

Cincinnati, Ohio

Yow, intriguing.

I wonder if that's a problem on space-flights where there are female crew members? The women would have to be on the pill, and all the water's getting recycled...

I would imagine the filering is better there. I cant imagine male astronauts wear a dress as part of their psychological training for the job.

You never know - these military types....

Hey now...my man doesn't wear dresses.........just mini skirts

Does he look good in them?

Black or floral?

It's your breakfast -- eat what you want.

He looks good in anything........

black leather of course!

And knowing you, I imagine you think he looks best in nothing at all?

He does!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!and I have the pictures to prove it!

I'm sure I didn't need to know that!

Wanna see? I love showing him off

You know, I really don't!

No that's a staple in New Mexico. Too bad I have IBS. I can't eat a damn thing anymore.

Not at all. I'm one of those who thinks 'whatever turns your crank.' As long as it doesn't interfere/cause harm to anyone else, why not?They'd be good in an omelet, I bet.