Welcome back, everyone, to the fourth in my series of Mahi Fine Food products.

This time around, I bring you the hottest from that box you saw before – Their “Green Savi”.

This is the reason that I got in touch with the company. Not to ask for anything from them but simply to enquire about the chilli that they used.

Because, while it wasn’t outright stated anywhere on the bottle or on their website, the word “savi” certainly sounded like the kind of shorthand that you might use if you wanted to avoid the colour and copyright associated with the “red savina”. A chilli that was once considered the hottest in the world and is still arguably the hottest of habaneros.

A chilli that I’ve tried before in Mr Vikki’s Banana pickle and the Death at the Crimson Altar‘s four pepper blend but not one that I’ve never had much chance to taste on its own. Even off record.

So to see it take centre stage like this in something from such a seemingly mainstream company was quite the shock. Especially when it turned out they had it in both red and green.

Almost as much of a shock, in fact, as when they decided to send me it free of charge.

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