SC - for bread-smearing

[Marisa Herzog]

At 2:01 PM +1100 11/7/97, Charles McCN wrote:
>I was under the impression that paprika was a member of the (Native
>American) pepper/chilli/capsicum family (I grew up calling them peppers.
>I don't know if that is odd or usual. I also don't know if they are
>related to the spice, although I assume not)

Paprika is a capsicum pepper and is New World--but may have gone into use
in the Old World somewhat before 1600. I think the reason capsicum peppers
are called peppers is that some of them (hot peppers) have a "peppery"
taste--i.e. a taste similar to that of black pepper, which is an unrelated
old world plant.

David/Cariadoc
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/


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