Yes, I learned about the Caribbean hot pepper when I researched the Internet. Apparently more people know the pepper by that name than the shell, if Google results are any gage.

I know that learning the source of a popular name can be a needle in haystack proposition, but one never knows what odd bit of trivia lurks out in the world.  Popular names can be very locally specific indeed.

John  Timmerman
Wilmington, North Carolina

> From: Ellen Bulger <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 2007/08/15 Wed PM 03:38:45 EDT
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] popular name - Scotch bonnet
>
> I've a question to pile on top of your question.
>
> Much as I love shells, when I hear Scotch bonnet, I think jerk not shell.
> You probably know it is also a name for a cultivated pepper popular in the
> Caribbean. But which came first, name-wise? And did the nicknames for the
> shell and the hot hot hot chili originate on the same island?
>
> And according to the Wikipedia, there is also a mushroom called the hot
> pepper.
>
> I'm not helping at all, am I? ;)
>
>

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