I had em while ago and yesterday, will have em again tomorrow.  Can't take away my Jalapeno's ;=)))

jalapenos are the staff of life. How can anyone not eat them?

The tragic result of this latest pathogen scare is the tomato industry was villified and crippled due to the lack of oversight in the food chain. This is one more prime example of factory farming practices out of control. It was not that long ago anyone could trace back to a grower any problem that surfaced with a crop. It was not that long ago any problem with livestock could be traced back to the rancher. We have allowed a few processors and meat packers to run the food show for too long, and at great sacrifice to our health and welfare. It will be a daunting task to change our filthy habits, and acknowledge that many times the lowest price makes the real cost much too high for society to bear. The time is way overdue to bring back the small farms and businesses and offer real choices in this country once again.

Jalapenos make my throat close up.  I discovered this after eating a beef sandwich from Plumberrys.  It was delicious but soon I was coughting and gasping.

No more jalapenos for me.

Adam, that's another genie/bottle thing.  It will never happen.  People are so used to going to a store and buying all the produce and meat they want that you'll never find enough to give up cushy jobs to work enough fields to feed the world.

Originally done out of necessity and survival, then for some profit some years, and then turned over to megafarmers.  You can't go home again.

By the way, for those who do have a private garden I admire you.  They are a lot of work since weeds grow twice as fast as veggies.  I did okra one year and it was a pain as I had to go out every day and cut it to avoid it turning woody and tough.  Bugs, water, weeding, ugh.  No wonder we let someone else do it.

It's funny. Before my gastric bypass surgery last year, I was a real wuss about anything hot or spicy. Afterward, my tastes change so that I constantly crave spicy food. It's weird because I still don't like it, but I do it anyway. I put Tapatio and Tobasco on everything (except oatmeal). I think I will try and grow my own jalapeno peppers, too.

Growing your own is the way to go.  Or the farmers market.  Homegrown is so much more tasty anyway.

it sounds to me like the jalapenos you had from carl's jr. were the bottle kind, and the jalapenos you ventured with at home were simply sliced from fresh whole peppers. there is a difference when it comes to those two and placing it on top of a sandwich results in two completely different concoctions. stick to the bottled ones for sandwiches and tacos, stick to the fresh ones for salsas or grill em- here's a example of what we do when the bbq is on:

jalapeno peppers sliced the long way (in half) and scoop/rid all the seed inside (careful: fumes cause choking and oils on hands burn). then take mozzerella cheese and stick inside the little opening (were the seed were). then take a cut-in-half slice of turkey bacon (or regular bacon) and wrap around the pepper, as if you were holding the cheese in by wrapping it. lastly, stick a toothpick through the bacon, cheese, and pepper to hold in all them goods. grill till cheese seems to have melted or the peppers are grilled to perfection. eat up!

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Murphy, when you're eating jalapenos, do you leave the seeds in or take them out??? Ha ha. I'm always tempted to take the seeds out just because the thought of swallowing seeds is not very appealing to me, but the seeds are where ALL the spice is, so I always keep them in.

I don't know how anyone could not eat them, Catpaw. I love spicy food.

Adam, I certainly agree with you. That's one of the many reasons I've always dreamt about becoming a farmer when I "grow up." That's unlikely to happen for me.

That's too bad about your allergy -- or I assume it's an allergy, Audrey. Glad to see you're back! I missed you! Nice picture.

Witbee, I'd grow my own jalapeno peppers, but it's too late in the season now for me, and I'm kind of impatient. I'll have to stick to what I've got. I'm definitely going to grow them next year, though.

Thank you, Nancy. I've been trying very hard to keep my garden up and running. We went on vacation last week and the weeds have been everywhere since we got back. My sister watered for me, but she didn't pick any of the weeds. I was trying to grow okra, but the rabbits came by and ate all the leaves, so now I'm trying to get them to come out of that. Wow...keeping  garden is exhausting!

I definitely agree, Lucy. Homegrown is ALWAYS better. I don't want to eat the peppers we buy at the store anymore because they don't taste as good as the ones I've grown in my own backyard. I also like to go to farmers markets for that reason, and I'm hoping to go back tomorrow to come back with some good things. I've gotten so picky about what I eat.

Thank you for the tip, Jolie. I won't be using the fresh ones anytime soon, though, because the fresh ones are what they're saying is infected with the salmonella. I don't think  we have the salmonella here, but I'm not going to risk it. I don't feel like getting sick right now. And you do know that the seeds are what make the pepper so much spicier, right? Just checking.

I take the seeds out, but last time I did (about 2 weeks ago), the fumes were so strong, I coughed so much, my throat closed up several times so I had to take breaks to take a hit off the inhaler. Thought I was gonna die, never had a reaction like that before! And (!) I was only working with three jalapenos!

Seeds in jalapenos? No way, not for me!

Robin, I've only had the ones in the jar with the juice, I make my corn bread with em, I cut up the peppers into small pieces and add the juice to the corn bread batter before cooking.  As far as the juice, I only use the juice down to the ones left in the jar so that the remaining ones do not dry out.

Try it, it is GOOD

 Adam, that's why Tomatoes are at $3.00's a lb.. Isn't it nice that we get to pay for some one Else's mistake?  That's why I grow my own.

When the juice runs low in your bottled peppers, add a little vinegar and let it sit.  It'll hotten right up.  My mom used to do that with the little tiny yellow ones with the shaker in the top.  Had to have that juice on bean with cornbread ya know.