Chili Pepper News — African Bird’s Eye Chili

You may have noticed a new chicken chain floating throughout the US. Nando’s hails from Southern Africa, but they specialize in Portuguese flame-grilled chicken. If your African history isn’t up to scratch, just know that the Portuguese colonized a few areas of the continent, including Mozambique and Angola. Unless you have a strong stomach (and you might just if you’re a chili head), the details of Portugal’s withdrawal from the continent aren’t for you. It wasn’t very pretty.