Ascholten
Free Ranging
Ok this is a bit of a story here.What the heck kind of name is that for a pepper?!?! Really, what is the pepper called? Sounds like something DH might try.
I had some peppers, they were called Chineese Hot Cherries. I do not know if that was their real name, just what the guy at the garden shop told me they were, so it stuck.
I was stationed in Guam, many years ago and they had some peppers that grew on the roads and stuff when you got up in the mountains / back woods. They looked like tobasco's, if you bit the very tip they were sweet and delicious like a bell pepper almost, but once you go past there... god help you. These Chineese Hots were not to pleasant either since we are there. Nobody really knew what they were called so we just called them Guamian Boonie Peppers. I managed to get one back to the states with me many years later and it was actually growing stupid. I mean this thing was like a pretty tall bush at this point.... anyways.
This was in a 20 gallon ?? pot, the hot cherries in a 5 gallon pot, I just kind of had them all smooshed over in the one side of the yard. Well the Boonie started getting some really wierd fat peppers on it, we figured it out that it cross polinated with the chineese cherry somehow.
These peppers were just... stupid. Id imagine like the ghost or scorpions or reapers of today. I refused to eat them, my buddies, . well after several beers, sure nuff, a 'pepper challenge' of some sorts would come up. anyways...
Rick came over one night he was already F'd up. I wasn't giving him anymore booze but he brought his own. (don't get me started, i do NOT approve of this kind of behavior!) but Id rather keep him there, punch him in the fn face and knock his ass out and lay him in the bedroom for the night, if thats what it took... instead of letting him drive anywhere else.... anyways..
He ate one of these abomination peppers, ok he won, but was in obvious agony, he was wretching, (i threw him out in the front lawn, you are NOT heaving on my carpet) besides the iguana would get pissed with rick on all 4's and I didn't need that drama either.(Iggy was all of 6 foot now and a force NOT to get angry at you !! ) Rick eventually passes out, we drag him upstairs and keep a watch on him to make sure he's ok as the night rolls on.
The next morning he's in BAD shape. were not exactly pristine either, we all drank quite a bit. He asks, what the hell WAS that pepper.. ?? ... ???
Umm..... ?? I dunno? We kind of created it. A few laughs and the morning moves on. About two hours later, Rick is in the john, and we hear, all kinds of exclaimations coming out of there, Lord #%$$# $% !~!!!!! We kind of smirk,, about 10 minutes later, rick comes out his face is bright red. he sits down at the table I cooked a ton of eggs and bacon and all sorts of heart killing but yummy breakfast stuff and was throwing it out for the crowd as fast as it was coming off the stove.... not a minute later after rick sat down, he's squirming around, about another 2 minutes and he stands up, opens the freezer, turns around grabs a few paper towels, turns back around gets a few handfulls of ice out of the freezer, puts them into the paper towels and heads back into the bathroom.
We looked at each other with a stupid look, a WTF ?? look then it dawns on us.. and we just die laughing right there. About a minute later I catch enough breath to yell out, Rick, are you sticking those ice cubes in your ass? His immediate reply was this like rageful yelling #&^%# YOU and your $%$# PEPPERS.
Well that was it... With a room full of guys you can imagine what happens next. For the next hour we are just tormenting him, Opening the john door, handing in a fire extinquisher, handing in an ice cream cone, hey RIck, what does that hold cold sensation feel like, as a jar of Icy-Hot is handed in.... you get the idea. he tried to lock the door but a minute later with a screwdriver and the door handle is no more.. yah it was bad. We are a bunch of Navy Snipes, so you can imagine the concern we had for each others well being
Well now we just have to name this thing, so after bantering around for oh god it was probably about an hour, we settle on that name......
I actually grew that seed and pepper for about another oh geez, 6 years or so, but it just became unviable after time. The plant grew but never flowered. Then just wouldn't sprout from the few seeds I had left, they were not healthy, and that was the end of them.
aaron
TOO MANY peppers!? That's hard to imagine from my perspective.
