Talk:African Bird's Eye

Nando's
Did Nando's really popularise peri-peri, or was it already popular? I hadn't heard of Nando's until a few months ago but I'd heard of peri-peri long before. Marketing text, or is it actually the case that Nando's introduced and popularised peri-peri in some places? Nach0king 18:53, 1 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Piri-Piri is not Malagueta. These are two different things! Piri-Piri is very small and hot, while Malagueta is larger, less hot. I'm a piri-piri fan and I even cultivate it. LOL. In Portugal piri-piri as always been popular, especially since the decolonization with a lot of people returning from Africa ( never heard of Nando's - it seems an ad ). Piri-piri is used in chicken grill in Portuguese cuisine, it was influenced by Mozambican one. In Angola another kind of chilli Pepper is more popular, the Jindungo. see pic of jindungo: Jindungo. So I don't think that Piri-Piri is used in Brazil at all (as the African culture in Brazil is linked with Angola), and most Brazilians that I know always confuse piri-piri with malagueta, because they never heard of piri-piri before, if in Angola piri-piri was more popular I would not doubt that. Citation needed for that section. BTW nice name it has in English, it is really an African devil. LOL.--Pedro 20:43, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
 * ooops... internationally...--Pedro 01:01, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Nando's is a trade name for a chain of restaurants that serves peri peri chicken in South Africa (possibly instead of curry chicken). I first came to know peri peri in Mozambique where in the local cafes one would see it as a liquid sauce on the tables and used to spice up the food very much like salt and pepper. The liquid version is very hot and usually made with oil. There was also a dried powdered version which seemed not to be so hot. The Mozambicans told me that the chillie came from Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, and was called Birds eye chillie, also Zimbabwean birds eye or African Birds eye and was originally used for trade with the Portuguese traders. It is also rumored that the Africans used to use it for trade with the Egyptians. (Mdek August 2006)

African birdseye & piri-piri
In this article, African birdseye is equal with piri-piri in Portuguese. However, in the taxonomy article of Capsicum, African birdseye belongs to the Capsicum frutescens species, while piri-piri belongs to Capsicum Pendulum species. Which one is the correct one? &mdash; Indon ( reply ) &mdash; 22:43, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Chilli padi
Is this the same thing? If so, should we merge? Dwiki 02:30, 24 September 2006 (UTC)