Some taste buds wait all year for these few weeks when the hatch chile season comes to market. But now a battle is heating up between the growers nearby and the one half a world away. New Mexico growers like Ed Ogaz take pride in their crop. "It's very much like the peach from Georgia, the orange from Florida, the apple from Washington. We have to have the chile from New Mexico," said Ogaz. Now there's a fight to protect that trademark taste as competition heats up. "We're being bombarded by the Chinese, by the Peruvians and by the Indians who grow their peppers at a fraction of the cost of New Mexico chiles," said Ogaz. A new law in New Mexico requires anyone who labels their chiles as New Mexican to prove it. The state is still working out the enforcement issues but the goal is to ensure if a chile says its from New Mexico, it was actually grown and picked in the state...more
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So now I'm wondering...when green chilis are hard to find in the East Texas markets and I'm forced to buy canned, where are those canned ones from? The can's label only shows who distributes them, not who canned them.
When I make my world famous, often imitated, never duplicated Tick's Texican green chili could it possibly be from China? Get a rope.
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