chilli

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The balance is such a precarious one that there's no guarantee you'll get anything more than just chilli, and we've got enough choice of good chilli-flavoured crisps already (Walkers 'own Thai Sweet Chilli is pretty decent on that front).

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  • The other one fetched a small green thing which I learnt later was a chilli, and with surgical gloves on, split it with a knife. —  XXXX
  • He also said the chilli was making his head itch, apparently a good thing. —  The RiotACT
  • The balance is such a precarious one that there's no guarantee you'll get anything more than just chilli, and we've got enough choice of good chilli-flavoured crisps already (Walkers 'own Thai Sweet Chilli is pretty decent on that front). —  FreakyTrigger
  • I discovered that the combination of dark chocolate and a waft of chilli is the perfect combination. —  British Blogs
  • Guinness World Records accepted in 2007 that the ghost chilli was the world's spiciest at more than one million Scoville units, the measure of spiciness, twice the heat of its closest rival. —  BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
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/ˈtʃɪli/
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