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Re: Chilli Peppers

At 01:50 AM 8/23/98 EDT, you wrote:
>In a message dated 8/22/98 8:52:19 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
mlaute@micron.net
>writes:
>
><< I've never heard poblanos/anchos called pasillas, >>
>
>In my town in so. california,  the supermarkets sell fresh poblanos under the
>name 'pasilla'.  In my more innocent days of growing things,  I set out to
>find a seed source for these yummy 'pasillas'.  But the labelled 'pasillas'
>that I found as young plants at the nursery matured into a nice long,  thin,
>brownish,  thin-walled chile with good flavor,  but werent what i was looking
>for.  I'm still not sure what those were.  Before I learned the poblano's
true
>name,  I had to resort to buying the most mature store pepper that I could
>find,  let it mature further,  and harvest and plant that seed.  That worked
>pretty well. In fact those seeds produced a superior variety of poblano than
>the seed packets I later found.
>
>Janet.
>
I lived in Riverside during the late '60s, and never heard poblanos/anchos
called pasillas.  But I did see pasillas called negros.  Pasillas are dried
chilacas, actually.  Margaret
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