Nine Levels of Submission

[elyse]

someone could not have missed *my* point more.

Yes, the Scoville scale measures the capsaicin in a pepper, but it can't quantify any of the other qualities -- such as visual or textural appeal -- that the peppers bring to the table, so to speak. Both peppers are real, genuine peppers, regardless of where they fall on the Scoville scale.

If one's only criteria for a pepper is heat, then one should probably just buy a bottle of hot sauce.

[gloombunny]

That's a good point, but it has nothing to do with what you actually posted. Which was entirely about the heat of the peppers.

edit: And it still has the same problem that I've been trying to talk about, as far as I can tell.