377- How To Pick A Pepper

99% Invisible

SiriusXM Podcasts and Roman Mars

Design, Arts

4.8 • 27.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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It is hard to pick a pepper, for both humans and robots

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0:00.0	This is 99% invisible.
0:02.2	I'm Roman Mars.
0:03.9	This summer, the governors of New Mexico and Colorado got into a fight on Twitter.
0:10.9	Words were had, umbridge was taken, but the fight wasn't over tax incentives or highway
0:15.9	funding or water rights.
0:17.8	Instead, it all boiled down to this.
0:20.8	Colorado's governor had the gall to insult New Mexico's pride and joy.
0:26.3	It's chili peppers.
0:27.3	The latest war of words comes after Colorado's governor made some insulting comments about
0:32.9	our chili.
0:33.9	Colorado's governor, Jared Polis, is claiming the chili in Pueblo is better than ours.
0:39.8	Naturally, New Mexico's governor had no choice but to respond in kind.
0:44.3	This morning, Governor Michelle Luhan-Krisham defended our precious crop on Twitter, saying
0:48.9	quote, if Pueblo chili were any good, it would have been on national shelves before
0:54.3	now.
0:55.6	In New Mexico, chili peppers are everywhere.
0:58.4	Restries of dried chilies hang from every doorway.
1:01.5	They are prominently featured on license plates.
1:04.5	Chili pepper cheeseburgers are part of the standard menu at McDonald's.
1:08.3	I can report they are not very good.
1:11.2	And New Mexico remains the only state in the union with an official state question.
1:16.8	Red or green?
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