Dave...... I'm compiling a dictionary/rncyclopedia of measurements named for people ... including the Scoville Heat Unit ... with data like when/where born and died. I've ol' Wilbur's birth Jan 22, 1865 in Bridgeport, Conn. But his death, apparently in 1942, is shrouded in a pepper-fog of mystery. You say Detroit, which is where he worked for Parke-Davis, and that sounds reasonable. Somebody else said Florida. And no date closer than the year 1942. Can you point me to other sources or anything that I might be able to nail down?

Here in New Mexico we're agog, to say the least, about the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion, which checked in at somewhere between 1.2 and 3 million SHU with the Chile Pepper Institute at New Mexico State University ... beating out the bhut jalokia's 1 million. Hot times, as we like to say, in the old town tonight.

Thanks for any help you might be able to share........

Bill Dunning
Santa Fe, NM
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Love the show! Good to hear from the Dave's! It reminded me of about 10 years ago, my family & friends would frequent the local mexican restaurant and got to be regulars! One of the waiters who used to wait on us was into hot food & so we would bring fresh habaneros & different sauces to try & share! I was quite a fan of Dave's insanity sauce & would talk about it so much the waiter thought my name was Dave! I tried to tell him a few times, it was Ray but he was having no part of it! We no longer live on that side of town, but once in a blue moon, I run into the waiter and he still calls me Dave! Hey, I have been called worse!!!!