"Jack Schmidling" wrote in message
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Melba's Jammin' wrote:

Is there any chance that your taste has changed? I've always understood
the jalapeño to be a not-very-hot pepper.

It certainly has changed but is not dead. This all started when I learned
that my blood pressure was too high. One of the home remedies/internet
factoids was that capsicum reduces blood pressure.

Up to that time, I abhorred hot food and considered it uncivilized and
fit only for howling savages.

Well, after a concerted effort to modify my palate, it now takes a
jabenero to really challenge me. However, a proper jalapeno still has
that nice warm mouth feel and is not confused with the dudds I am
referring to. They simply have no heat.

Last year we harvested from about now till frost and nothing changed. Most
of them were duds and a very few were hot. We had to add a few jabeneros
to each jar of pickled jalapenos to get a reasonably hot batch.

None of this had any effect on my blood pressure BTW but it has expanded
my horizons.

js


Have you noticed any other foods that don't taste the way you remember them
from the past?