It's sweet it's hot its like a soft summer tan for you're mouth! Sunburn peppers! — Goofy slogan
Sunburn peppers are a hybrid chili pepper made from crossing Yuletide peppers with Sweetbarrel peppers developed by Ashton Copperpich during his high school studies at
Bracklesburg Boarding Academy as part of his end of the year science project. The pepper was hugely popular with the other students with its uniquely sweet-hot taste. This led to jokes of Ashton becoming the head of the chili pepper mafia and the local pepper dealer. The popularity did make actually finishing his project difficult with people constantly approaching him trying to buy peppers though.
Appearance
Sunburn peppers grow on bushy dark leaved plants that average roughly two and a half feet tall and a foot and a half wide. The stalk is fairly thin making it a wise practice to stake the plants for their entire lifespan. The plant grows small white flowers that when pollinated develop drooping peppers shaped roughly like a fat teardrop. The colors of the peppers varies on the plant in a wide array of red-orange to orange-peach shades making them popular for using to top dishes raw.
Use
They are a pepper that is roughly as hot as the average Chyanne Canyon pepper with a strong fruity undertone. This makes them popular for a variety of dishes both raw and cooked. Especially popular foods include spicy shrimp cocktails, salad topping, marinade ingredient for especially beef, and simply pickled to eat with charcuterie.
Marketing
While his pepper hybrid became incredibly popular in a short amount of time Ashton had no desire to take proper advantage of it's success as his passion rested in the study of forests not agriculture. His lack of initiative dismayed his father who eventually managed to convince him to at least organize a production to support his pursuits and to meet the demand he had inadvertently created. While the Copperpich family doesn't technically have a monopoly on the hybridization of Sunburn Peppers most people prefer to buy the young plants instead of having to manually crossbreed Yuletides and Sweetbarrels yearly.
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