« The More It Looks Changed | Main | A Teeny, Tiny Step »
September 20, 2005
Chili Today
...hot tamale, especially for peesed off Mexican chili farmers. Not only are the Chinese flooding our markets with cut rate goods, they've taken to growing and processing traditional Mexican chilis and exporting them in vast, cheap quantities...to Mexico.
Mexico's farmers are fuming over its country's prided chili peppers. Peppers are the everyday spice of Mexican cuisine. But increasingly, Mexico's hot peppers are being grown in China.
An audio Chili Pepper Report from PRI's "The World".
Posted by tree hugging sister at September 20, 2005 09:22 AM
Comments
This is the ley of the land. It's been going on in the U.S. for years. Our country is a shell of what it once was.
Posted by: GALA at September 20, 2005 09:39 AM
Illegal chilli immigrants flood mexico!
ay caramba, dude!
Posted by: Mr. Bingley at September 20, 2005 09:46 AM
Poetic it is.
Posted by: Cullen at September 20, 2005 09:52 AM
I was gonna add a snide aside like 'competition's a bitch' or something in that vein, but it seemed like overstating the blatantly obvious.{8^P
Posted by: tree hugging sister at September 20, 2005 10:05 AM
No sweatshop jokes? Must be pretty mild chilis.
Posted by: Ken Summers at September 20, 2005 10:45 AM
Pi Can Te is also a city outside of Beijing.
Who knew.
Posted by: Mr. Bingley at September 20, 2005 12:53 PM
Pi Can Te = 屁看忑 = Fart See Nervous
Kinda makes sense ;-)
Posted by: John at September 20, 2005 01:47 PM
Better than "Fart See Flames" I always say.
(You are a national treasure, John.)
Posted by: tree hugging sister at September 20, 2005 01:49 PM
John, I knew you would have the evidence to back me up!
Posted by: Mr. Bingley at September 20, 2005 02:10 PM