[Assam] 'Bhut jolokia is world's hottest chi lli'

[Chan Mahanta]

Buisa Komol, tumi tinisukiya hobo para, pise' bih jolokiya 'bhut ba 
bhoot  jolokiya' nohoy. Oxomiya obhdhaanotw iyak 'bhwt jolokiya' 
buliyei paba,  WITH a 'murdhonyo to' as Priyankoo explained.

My guess would be that the Bhutiyas like it too, or they grow them. 
Yes, the Nagas are the biggest consumers of this almost poisonous 
chili pepper. In fact, when I was at Namti in January, a local young 
man wanted to show me his 'bhwt jolokiya' plantation. I wanted to go, 
but had  no time. I asked WHO buys them, he said they go to  Nagaland.
















At 7:09 PM -0500 6/18/07, kamal deka wrote:
>I am a Tinsukian in every sense of the meaning and very 
>well-conversant with the language,including local dialects.Could 
>anyone explain to me why these chillies are stratified as  bih 
>jolokia,although they are certainly not poisonous? In my considered 
>opinion,they are classified as bhoot jolokia perhaps because of this 
>fact:---herou bih jolokia nekhabi,khale bhoot dekhi jabi bapeke.The 
>name could very well be derived from the bhot tribe,but in day-to- 
>day conversation,it appears to have a different connotation.Could it 
>be possible that they are so- called in order to indicate the 
>'hotness' of these chillies rather than pointing towards the 
>' tribe' in question? It could be figurative rather than literal.
>
>BTW,these are also called ' kordoixira jolokia' and 'Noga jolokia' 
>by some locals.But,in my view,these two varieties are a bit 
>different from bhot/bhoot/bih jolokia.
>
>Regards,
>KJD
>
>
>On 6/18/07, Priyankoo 
><<mailto:priyankoos at yahoo.co.in>priyankoos at yahoo.co.in > wrote:
>
>I am from Tinsukia district, born and brought up there, never heard 
>of bhoot jolokiya, though. It is true some people pronounce the "o" 
>as "u", but that does not make a ghost out of a tribe name, as far 
>as the meaning is concerned.
>
>It also does not justify the poor homework, on part of the correspondent!
>
>best,
>Priyankoo
>
>
>kamal deka <<mailto:kjit.deka at gmail.com>kjit.deka at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>In Ujoni Oxom ( in and around Tinsukia district ) ,the ' jolokias' 
>in question are called ' bhoot jolokia or ' bih jolokia '.The name ' 
>bhot jolokia' is perhaps unheard of in that part of the world.
>
>In Namoni Oxom ( Kamrup district in particular ), the chillies,in 
>general, are called ' bhijlook'.
>
>KJD
>
>
>On 6/17/07, Pradip Kumar Datta 
><<mailto:pradip200 at yahoo.com>pradip200 at yahoo.com > wrote:
>
>'Bhut jolokia is world's hottest chilli'
>THE VICTOR, THE VANQUISHED
>New Delhi, June 17: They are as tez as they come. The bhut jolokia 
>or 'ghost chillies' of Tezpur figure in the Time Magazine's latest 
>issue as the world's hottest chilli.
>The magazine's cover story that takes a look at the culinary 
>specialities and peculiarities around the world has zeroed in on the 
>burnt orange pods, developed in a military laboratory in Tezpur, as 
>packing the deadliest punch.
>The article 'Global Warming' notes that the bhut jolokia, also 
>called the Naga chilli, carries the sort of heat that one normally 
>would find only in the hottest chilli sauces made from pure pepper 
>extract.
>Chilli heat is measured in Scoville Heat Units (SHUs), and while 
>pure capsaicin, the main capsaicinoid in a chilli, measures 16 
>million SHUs, the ghost chilli measures just over one million SHUs. 
>(PTI)
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