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"David Eduardo" writes:
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> "Douglas S. Ladden" wrote in message
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>> The Terran carbon-based unit designating itself as "David Eduardo"
>> shared its ideas in rec.travel.latin-america on
>> Wed, 17 Sep 2003 19:06:44 GMT:
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>> > "Harvey & Myrna" wrote in message
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>> >> I have never been to South America. I will be spending about two
>> >> weeks in Southern Chili in November.
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>> > "Chili" is always hot. Chili is a spice.
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>> No. Actually, "chili" is a food typically made from meat, beans,
>> tomatoes and various spices, including any variety of "chile", which is
> any
>> number of peppers typically containing various quantities of capsaicin.
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> No, that is "Chili con Carne." A "chili" is a "chile" in Spanish, or a Chili
> Pepper. IOW, a spice.
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You know, I'm curious about that and posted the question in another
thread. In my experience, I've never seen the word chili used in Mexico
or any Central American country I have visited nor have I seen the dish
popularly known in the United States as chili with or without meat.
Whenever I've heard anyone refer to the spice it has always been
pronounced "cheelay" and never "cheelee" (actually it's almost always in
the plural "cheelays" even if it's).
In the Spanish speaking community in Arizona and New Mexico, the
vegetable is always chile and the dish is chili, although the dried
spice mixture is usually chili powder. There is also a sauce known
as chile, but the name is almost always preceded by green or red,
depending on whether it is made from green or red chiles. Before I read
your post I had never seen the phrase "chili pepper".
The world is a big place, though, so my question is, "which Spanish
speaking people refer to the pepper as chili?" Do you mean the
Spaniards? I have a friend in Barcelona. I should ask him. |