JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote:
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>> The hot politics-hot food correlation is probably confounded by the hot
> weather-hot food connection (necessity of food preservatives) or perhaps
> there's just an extra urgency to kicking out the euro marauders to save a
> food tradition...
>
Mao wrote a poem on the subject -- contrasting the hot peppers of the south to the bland food of the north. I think but can't remember for sure that he addressed it to a northern comrade.
Carrol
(For my self, you can take your jalapenos and stuff them. <-; )
> Jenny Brown