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”.

9 Responses to “Chili Today”

  1. GALA says:

    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.

  2. Mr. Bingley says:

    Illegal chilli immigrants flood mexico!
    ay caramba, dude!

  3. 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

  4. Ken Summers says:

    No sweatshop jokes? Must be pretty mild chilis.

  5. Mr. Bingley says:

    Pi Can Te is also a city outside of Beijing.
    Who knew.

  6. John says:

    Pi Can Te = ??? = Fart See Nervous
    Kinda makes sense 😉

  7. Better than “Fart See Flames” I always say.
    (You are a national treasure, John.)

  8. Mr. Bingley says:

    John, I knew you would have the evidence to back me up!

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