SC - oop - healthfulness of black pepper - a query
Maggie MacDonald
maggie5 at home.com
Wed Oct 25 12:23:48 PDT 2000
At 07:10 PM 10/25/00 +0000,Olwen the Odd said something like:
>When Charlie was still alive and I wanted to pepper anything, I had to use
>white pepper as it was personally unhealthy for ME to use black. This was
>only because Charlie used to believe that pepper was sent from the demons
>of h---. Garlic too, I might add. I never got caught and he ate
>everything I put in front of him. Surprizingly (NOT), the more white
>pepper and garlic the entree had, the more he liked it!
>
>Olwen ;-)
>
>>"I use white or cayenne, black pepper is not as healthy"
>>
>>I have never heard this one before (I seem to be on a faddish List or 2 -
>>the recipes are good, so I stay, but shake my head a lot!) and I wonder if
>>people here would care to comment on the healthfulness or otherwise of black
>>pepper?
>>
>>Gwynydd
My grandmother always insisted that black pepper never digested, but simply
balled up in your intestinal tract, and they would find a giant ball of it
in your gut once you died. (Along with watermelon seeds and swallowed
bubble gum).
Bless her heart.
Regards,
Maggie MacD.
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