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Chillies - what types are available where you live?

About 25 years ago I bought 6 small Thai chilies from Harrods. Cost me 70 pence!

Now I buy them in handfulls for 20 pence.
 
Prompted by the current Recipe Challenge I popped out to the greenhouse to see what variety of chilli's were growing. To be honest, I just tend to buy a couple of plants locally in order to produce home made chilli sauce. If they are not hot enough we add some shop bought Scotch bonnets or Birds Eyes. I don't think that will be necessary this season - we have Apache, Serrano and Ring of Fire (:eek:), respectively 70-80,000, 10-23,000 and 70-80,000 on the Scoville scale.
 
My wife brought these home from the main central market yesterday. 45 pence. I use these whole in my Bratfud Bangla curry.

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