Hasperat was a well known spicy Bajoran food. (TNG episode: "Preemptive Strike") Quark's sold twenty-four varieties of hasperat. (DS9 novel: Avatar, Book One) This was a common food available to the many pilgirms who traveled to see the Emissary's land after 2375. A Federation reporter described it as "fire in a pastry shell". (New Worlds, New Civilizations short story: "A Walk in the Path of the Emissary")