SC - This is getting insane.

[Alderton, Philippa]

Bear said:

>On a more whimsical note, we could bake a pepper-shaped and pepper-colored
bread loaf spiced with Piper nigrum and replace the bell pepper altogether.

Ah, now that's more to my liking!

Seriously, though, it's not the bitterness of the pepper I object to- I like
many bitter and sour foods, including black coffee and lemon. Also, I have
tried bell peppers fresh from the garden, in several stages of growth. There
is just something about the flavor of bell peppers I can't stand, which is
not in the "hot" peppers, including the mild hot ones such as poblanos or
"sweet" banana peppers. My mother thinks it's because of the horribly
over-peppered spaghetti sauce her friend Pat fed me when I was about 2 or 3-
I know my dislike of artificial flavorings, paticularly cherry, stems from
the flavored cough medicines etc I had to have as a child.

I'm wondering- is there any chemical, or combination of chemicals, which are
in much greater abundance in the bell peppers , than in the hot ones?
There's a whifff of that taste in the hot ones, but not enough to be
objectionable......


Phlip

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Philippa Farrour
Caer Frig
Southeastern Ohio

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So many paths that wind and wind,
When just the art of being kind
Is all this sad world needs.

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