At a farm in Granby, Massachusetts, Marash Girl assisted her daughter in gathering vegetables, and this week hot peppers were in abundance! And were they beautiful. Deep red and deep green -- so the ladies gathered 2 quarts -- one to keep and one to give away. Today Marash Girl can barely type these words as her hands are burning from processing those peppers!
Fearless, (and clueless, I might add), Marash Girl had washed those beautiful little peppers in cold water, and (wearing glasses, luckily) cut those peppers in half, discarding the seeds, readying the peppers for chopping and freezing. Little did she know that the capsaicin,the chemical in those hot peppers, could float through the air and attack the skin on her face! Now, almost 18 hours later, her hands still burn -- but then those hands had, after all, touched the peppers, and her face still burns from the capsaicin which floated through the air and attacked the skin on her face with no help from her hands.
Cold water, soap, nothing has helped to stop the burning.
Any suggestions?
Marash Girl's suggestion is that we stay away from those beautiful little peppers unless we have a penchant for burning!
Sounds like vegetable guard dogs to me. They could be planted as a defensive perimeter for vegetable gardens. If they could be bred into six foot tall living megaliths, they could guard orchards. If they could be bred even larger and taller, we could drop them from airplanes...oops, no more carnage, no more blood, just a lot of red faces.
ReplyDeleteThink how differently wars would be fought. Instead of bullets being fired, peppers would be the projectile. Would have to stick, though, to the green ones, otherwise the use of red peppers might elicit a cry of 'communist conspiracy' from senator what's his name?
ReplyDeleteStill burning slightly a week later, though washing hands in madzoon (yogurt) helped somewhat.
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