TAM is a mild jalapeno with some heat.

If you want no heat then eat bell peppers.

For me it is a total waste of time. Early Jalapeno is a good northern Jalapeno.

Personally, I really like the "Fooled You" jalapeno. To me it has a true jalapeno look and flavor--they don't taste anything like a bell pepper. They're perfect to use to tone down salsa that's too hot without loosing any of it's flavor. And, sometimes It's nice to be able to eat a pepper that leaves the skin on your tounge when your finished with it. Every now and then you may eat a Fooled You that has a little heat to it but basically they are pretty much without any heat.

I think you should grow one of these plants and see how you like them for yourself. The plants don't get very large and can do real well in a container.

Alan

The Fooled You Jalapenos from Totally Tomatoes that I grew had fruit that tasted like grass to me so I let them rot on the plants.

If you like hot peppers you probably will not like False Alarm, Fooled You, or even TAM Mild. Lots of folks don't like heat, so they are perfect for them.

"If you like hot peppers you probably will not like False Alarm, Fooled You, or even TAM Mild. Lots of folks don't like heat, so they are perfect for them."

That's like saying lawn grass is perfect for them because Fooled You Jalapeno tastes like lawn grass. I like bell peppers even though they have no heat because they otherwise have a unique and desirable flavor.

"That's like saying lawn grass is perfect for them because Fooled You Jalapeno tastes like lawn grass."

No, farmerdilla didn't say FYJs taste like lawn grass, YOU did.

But, saying FYJs taste like lawn grass is like saying all lawn grasses taste like FYJs. IÂm sure youÂre not just using some glittering generality here. Obviously, you must know your lawn grasses to make such a claim. So at the risk of being obvious, please be more specific. Share with us which varieties of lawn grass you have actually tried, and how you rated them? What factors did you use to differentiate between them? Which is the best? Which is the worst? Which one, specifically, tastes like FYJ?

Or, are you really just a Turf Farmer posting on a Hot Pepper Forum?

LOL

Might take off as a health drink this grass tasting pepper, adding a wee bit of alfalfa for good measure. HEHE Kathy

So if it tastes like grass, is that worse than a good Bell Pepper? Or just means you don't like Bell Peppers?

My dog likes to eat grass, and she already tries to pick the Bell Peppers off the plants if I don't watch her, maybe she will love Fooled You.

I planted a regular Jalapeno anyway. And a New Mexico 6-4l and Aneheim.
What are some other ways to use them other than Mexican food which I don't like much... don't like all the tomato products and i can't eat dairy products.

You can do stir fry stuff. I like having bell peppers and fresh hot peppers mixed in. You can come up with your own sauce, or there are many kinds on the market.

For larger peppers, you can always stuff them with different things, those seem to be popular around here.

Otherwise, scour the web for foods that use peppers and experiment with the peppers you grow!

As for tasting like grass... the other day I picked up some huge Jalapenos from the store (wanting the seeds of course), and using them to cook with. I ate part of it, not hot at all, and I thought it tasted like a bell pepper.... My wife did not agree with me though, and she had a much smaller bite!

It's all relative.

"No, farmerdilla didn't say FYJs taste like lawn grass, YOU did."

He didn't say that it didn't taste like lawn grass, either. He said, "Lots of folks don't like heat, so they are perfect for them." He thereby implied that a lack of heat is the sole pepper selection criterion for people who don't like heat. Lawn grass doesn't have heat, so FYJ may as well taste like lawn grass according to him.

"But, saying FYJs taste like lawn grass is like saying all lawn grasses taste like FYJs."

Wrong. It is like saying all blades of all lawn grasses taste like all fruit of all FYJs, not just in the past and present, but also the future.

"IÂm sure youÂre not just using some glittering generality here. Obviously, you must know your lawn grasses to make such a claim. So at the risk of being obvious, please be more specific. Share with us which varieties of lawn grass you have actually tried, and how you rated them? What factors did you use to differentiate between them? Which is the best? Which is the worst? Which one, specifically, tastes like FYJ?

Wrong again; I was making a glittering generality.

Or, are you really just a Turf Farmer posting on a Hot Pepper Forum?

No.

"I planted a regular Jalapeno anyway."

BTW, Biker Billy Jalapeno is very hot and, like FYJ, without much of the other flavors typically associated with Jalapeno.

I would like to know where I could get some fooled you peppers

Fooled You, False Alarm, and TAM mild are widely available. Totally Tomatoes has been mentioned. But Google any one of them and you find many vendors. For those of you who like stir frys with a smidgin of heat, you may want to try Mexibell or Fajita Bell. I really like them in Fajitas.

I was given a Fooled You jalapeno right off the plant yesterday. I ate it raw and it had zero heat and a very good jalapeno flavor. As far as jalapenos with no heat, you might as well quit wasting time with all those other so-called mild ones and go with this one if you can get it. I am assuming that it is mild because it has no seeds.