Graphic Queen wrote:
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> On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:57:00 -0600, Arri London <biotech@ic.ac.uk>
> wrote:
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> >Graphic Queen wrote:
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> >> On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:46:29 -0600, Arri London <biotech@ic.ac.uk>
> >> wrote:
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> >> >"Janet B." wrote

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> >> New Mexico ones are much better and the best comes from Hatch, NM.
> >
> >They are better but not available fresh everywhere. However I did send a
> >few pounds of fresh chiles to the elder bro in NJ (as a birthday gift)
> >and also sent some to NC (or was it SC) for someone who used to
> >patronise this group. That person paid for the chiles and the shipping.
> >
> >A couple of companies do sell frozen NM chiles but I don't know how far
> >they distribute them. And some other stupid company actually bought the
> >Hatch name; that occurs on tinned chiles. Around here they must
> >advertise the chile crop as being 'chiles from Hatch' rather than the
> >more intuitive 'Hatch chiles'.
>
> Yeah, that name thing is really ridiculous. You are right about them
> not being available fresh all over. It is too bad because I really do
> believe that their taste is far superior to any other ones I have ever
> had.

If you'd spoken up earlier could've sent you fresh ones. Now what's in
the produce dept is not as nice as the first crops and might not survive
the journey.