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

[kamal deka]

I have already mentioned about ' figurative language' and ' literal meaning'
in my previous mail.This should have resolved the moot point.BTW,does Hem
kosh obhidhan have any referrence to bhwt jolokiya?

KJD


On 6/18/07, Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at charter.net> wrote:
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>  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.
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> 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.
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> At 7:09 PM -0500 6/18/07, kamal deka wrote:
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> 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.Couldit 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.
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> 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.
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> On 6/18/07,* Priyankoo* <priyankoos at yahoo.co.in > wrote:
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> 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
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> It also does not justify the poor homework, on part of the correspondent!
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> best,
> Priyankoo
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> *kamal deka <**kjit.deka at gmail.com* <kjit.deka at gmail.com>*>* wrote:
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> 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.
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> In Namoni Oxom ( Kamrup district in particular ), the chillies,in
> general, are called ' bhijlook'.
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> On 6/17/07,* Pradip Kumar Datta* <pradip200 at yahoo.com > wrote:
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> *'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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