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[Konundrum]

Hananero is a pepper...like the scotch bonnet or basic jalapeno....but more like the scotch bonnet. Actually, I think the habanero is the hottest pepper in the world on that scoville scale...jalapenos are like a 5000, tabasco is like 40 000, and habaneros are around 500 000 on the scale.
I once bought a hot sauce in 'Nawlins called "Pain is Good"...it was habanero and carrot based...best hot sauce ever.
Anyhoo...about the thread..

-My younger students always asked me what my Korean name was and didn't understand why I didn't have one.

[eamo]

Yes. Habanero is the hottest pepper. On whatever scale the internet should throw up (let's face it. Where else are you going to get your information on a matter like this).

[Hollywoodaction]

[Konundrum]

Yeah..about the smell thing...
Students would be HYP-MO-TIZED by my arm hair and pet my arms like a goat at the petting zoo...then they'd smell my arms and make that wretching sound they make. All I could smell on my arms was shower gel or cologne...maybe I should change brands?
I've also been told that foreigners smell like burning dog hair on more than one occasion.

[Zenpickle]

[khyber]

i'm sure this has been mentioned but my friend's korean gf when brought to Canada was SHOCKED that not every canadian was fat.

hoodathunk?

my first year here, my kids couldn't even concentrate they were so taken with the arm hair...and i don't have that much

[jajdude]

This is kind of scary.

www.asianpacificpost.com/news/article/353.html

[JongnoGuru]

Darrin started a thread on that same article by Colin Purcell. A lot of bombast, but the fact that articles such as this are getting some considerable play outside of Korea is, perhaps, newsworthy itself. People read that, then they see the Dokdo rallies, then they remember the Olympic sports fracases, the candlelight vigils two years ago, the flag-burnings, the problems with Chinese history revisionists...

It's all starting to congeal in a negative way in the minds of people who don't pay close and daily attention to this place. Hmm... and probably also in the minds of many who do.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

[Hollywoodaction]

[Deconstructor]

I was sometimes asked both by children and adults why my eyebrows were so long and uniform and why my eyelashes were so long.

I once replied to a group of children that they really weren't eyebrows but leeches that stuck to my face because they couldn't find space in my brain where they really lived. I even offered them to take a peek through my ear and see how full of leaches my brain really was. If you could�ve ever experienced absolute silence for 15 seconds while these kids tried to fathom who their English teacher REALLY was, you would�ve had to be in my class at that moment.

As for my eyelashes: I told them I kept them long to hang small bells from them in case I had to ring a doorbell and my hands were occupied. Then I went ding dong. Put a smile on their faces.

[Hyalucent]

[the_beaver]

[Hollywoodaction]

Here are some seeds.

http://www.reimerseeds.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=HP122-20

I'm gonna order some to grow. I'll give one to the next person who asks me if I know the food I've just ordered is spicy.

[coolsage]

This one looks much like the fabled 'mouse dropping peppers' from Thailand. They are tiny bombs. A little goes a long way. I have a quantity of these. They work well in almost any baked or fried meat dish. I'm going to stir up some (in addition to garlic) right now.