"SonoranDude" > wrote in message
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> "SonoranDude" > wrote in message
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> > "Jim Lane" > wrote in message
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> > > Brad, they are jalapenos, not japs, and especially not japs with a
> > > capital "J." Try calling them jalas for short. More people might get
it
> > > that way and not tend to think you are against the Japanese, where the
> > > term "Japs" comes from.
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> > >
> > > jim
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> > Dude, get a life... I guess you weren't in the produce biz
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> In respect of my Nipponese farming friends many of them grew these "japs"
> for sale at market in and around the Phoenix area... I appologize for the
> use of the capital letter, my mistake. Is it cool to call potatoes spuds?
> Jeesh... it's people like you that ruin it for everyone on usenet.

My Japanese-American farming friends would have found the term very
offensive. Just as I do. I agree with Jim's rather polite post.

Charlie