"Charles Gifford" > wrote in message
ink.net...
>
> "SonoranDude" > wrote in message
> ...

> > 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.

Then again, "jap chiles" or "chiles japonesas" show up in the dried chile
section. They ain't jalapenos; they are dried serranos. But Arizona ain't
Texas., either.

T.


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