As a Mexican from the south. Thank you for spending so much time on how it was developed in the Americas. So many of these videos start at "peppers come from the Americas, in the 16th century they... And they go from there. You gave it's thousands of years of history some justice. Appreciate it
It's important to recognize the rich history and cultural significance of peppers in the Americas. Taking the time to appreciate their thousands of years of development really honors the contributions of indigenous communities.
Best and hottest peppers I ever had were a gift from a Mexican customer in Phoenix. He grew many varieties and he knew all the tricks. I made them last a long time.
It is unbelievable how much stuff that we take for granted came from South America: potatoes, tomatoes, chilies, maize, cocoa, avocado, groundnut to name just a small fraction.
Interestingly enough, the drink that evolved into the modern-day hot cocoa used to be infused with a considerable amount of chili peppers, as well as other herbs and spices. No sweeteners of any kind. It was considered a healthy, medicinal drink, consumed hot or cold, much like a tonic.
@@billweirdo9657 And we have a dozen fruits called "berry" that aren't berries, what's your point? They're chili peppers. Or chile peppers. Not chilie peppers, that's just a misspelling.
in India like the Bhut, are you saying it is cultivated? Or the traditional Thai peppers or Bhutanese peppers. It just seems unlikely to me that so many species can be created so rapidly. I wish you would explain how this can be done given most others vegetables don’t seem to have diversified so much.
My Paprika peppers are ripening... almost time to make a Goulash. In a couple weeks I'll have to dig up the best ones for the winter... Pepper plants are Perennial if its warm enough
hello, sir. I actually never learned your name, i apologize (just know im talking to you, fire of learning i couldn't find your name). i wanna thank you. For making things i never knew, i wanted to know so fascinating. In the sea of frankly horrible or brainrot uninformative content slop on this platform, there's you. You're so amazing. A godsend on these platforms you talk so...formally yet are just naturally funny. I suppose that's why you're so good at this. You make these topics so captivating and add your own spin on it and you help me learn new amazing things about myself sometimes the very country i live in haha (U.S ) aswell as other places on this planet and much more. And genuinely have a positive impact on me and make me less stupid, and you are amazing. I wish you a good life and hope you can teach so many others because you're awesome and deserve it all, friend. ❤
I’ve been watching your history of fruits and vegetable videos for a couple years now as they pop up in my feed because I watch a lot of gardening stuff. I finally clicked your profile and just realized you have a lot of videos on cryptids and ufos, one of my other interests, how and I only finding out about this now!?!? Great channel 👍
@socialaccount0000 To pick isn't exclusive to harvesting plants. If you were to reach your hand in a jar to take a pepper from a jar you could say you " picked it" question answered
It's fascinating that bell peppers have existed for just over a hundred years and that they were developed in central europe. I would never have guessed.
@silliaek they weren't. " bell peppers " which aren't the correct name... have been cultivated for over 8 thousand years. The modern " bell pepper" is slightly different from the original cultivation " bell pepper" from 8 thousand years ago. The only difference is color and size being about 10% bigger.
@@billweirdo9657 It's not a stretch of the imagination to think of bell and poblomo types being selected from jalapeno types. Even before development of the mild jalapeno, one could encounter one jalapeno as hot as a habanero, and the next one in the bag as mild as a bell. I've always considered Jalapenos the Jokey Smurf of the capsicum world - you never know what's in the box until you open it.
@@billweirdo9657 I'm not ignorant, I use First Nations. If I say Indian, I am referring to a native of a southern asian subcontinent. But many plants have a common name as well as a scientific name. It seems that pepper has become a generic common name for any capsicum. Get over it.
That's exactly what I was here to note as well and to see if others had heard it. I actually backed up the video a bit to make sure I hadn't misheard that. So in 100 years, we have now a crop that is immense and multi-colored -- and, at least in my area right now - should have an ATM mounted beside their displays to make it easier to afford them.
The green bell pepper is all we initially had. I recall when I first saw colored “green peppers” in the store. They were striking, smaller than today, but a delight to the eye. I tentatively bought one, orange or red, and was pleased when I tasted it. As I recall, some time later orange came out. The botanists stopped there but there was talk of a purple one. I vaguely recall a striped one. The scientists were having fun, showing off. Explanations in the press were that agricultural botanists had isolated the plant genes for each color, inserted the chosen color, and crossed and crossed the plants until they yielded what we have today. It was probably the large grocery store chains that then fussed that they didn’t have bin space for every color in nature. So they stopped at three. Sweet red, orange, and yellow peppers are 20th century inventions, marvels of DNA science.
4:27 Normally I would criticize YTbers for keeping in takes like that, but for u Justin, you actually made it funny. hahaha I see that Crows don't care much for your recording sessions haha
As somone allergic to most peppers, it is truly hard to avoid them. And worse, many places dont believe you if you say youre allergic, untill you start having reactions to them when they snuck them in anyways. So thank you for the history, as it is cool to know. :)
The Portuguese imported a special variety of pepper today known as "Peri-peri". In East Africa in Mozambique they make a dish of chicken seasoned with peri-peri chili sauce. Nando's is a commercial brand.
OMG. Everybody know that hot peppers originated in the new world. I always wondered about bell peppers. Of course, I thought, they were European. Though I was skeptical. This video explains it all. Other You-tubers were, I guess, worried about political correctness. Asia had NO hot peppers? this is a wonderful history of food. Thank You!!!! (I am 1000% Eastern European, but my love is Mexico).
What lead you to that conclusion, considering they all belong to the same family and have Similar structure/appearance internally and external of the fruit, even tomatoes also as i imagine you are aware (also originating in mexico). The one which always confused me more was aubergine. Belonging to that nightshade also but they do orignate from south asia i believe.
Leaving the overall morality or not of imperialism to other threads, the global history of spicy food is fascinating. Chillies are native to the new world and were introduced to Africa and Asia by the Portuguese. Before that there were curries etc in India but the heat came from peppercorns.
I want to note that at the end of the video, you said pepperoni was the result of Italian experimentation with peppers, but this wording is a bit misleading. Italians invented spicy salami with it in Italy and pepperoni, the less spicy, familiar meat was actually invented by Italian immigrants in the United States.
A surprise to learn that bell peppers are such a recent development. I was confused as a child because my Missouri relative referred to bell peppers as "mangos".
At home we grew capsicums: Big capsicums (not hot) Thin capsicums (not hot) Hot chillis (unknown variety) Jalapenos And always cooked with Hungarian paprika.
Hello Fire of Learning, I hope you’re doing well. I’ve been following your history videos for a while and I appreciate how much detail and care you bring to every topic you cover. I'm Miguel and I specialize in providing comprehensive, done-for-you research tailored to content creators like yourself. I’d love to offer my services to you for free as part of a limited test where I help creators add even more factual depth to their videos. It’s designed to save you time while ensuring every detail is well-researched and fact-checked. I genuinely believe my research system could help enrich your already amazing content. If you're interested, I’d be thrilled to connect and help you out on your next project! Keep up the incredible work-your channel is a gem. Cheers, Miguel
Thank you for yet another spicy episode, lol. This was fascinating. South America has been blessed with so many delicious plants. God be with you out there, everybody. ✝️ :)
Plants: Create Nicotine, THC, Capsaisin, and psychedelics to protect themselves from being eaten. Humans: Oo magic plant... I'm going to hunt down and eat all of these.
Thanks! Very interesting video! Learned a lot from it! Just some notes and corrections... 1. several types of peppers were used in Western Europe cuisine, namely in Spain and Portugal (which I believe are part of Western Europe). 2. Peppers were grown in Spain since the XVI century when they were brought from America, it was in Extremadura, a region of Spain where the first paprika was made. It arrived to Hungary in the XVII century. 3. The origin of bell peppers and caipsicin free peppers is also from Pre-Columbian farmers in Mesoamerica not Hungary. A lot of Spanish and consequently American history has been distorted and erased due to the black legend... Don't believe me? I invite you to investigate or, ask chatGPT about it.
Pepperoni which in English at least in North America means a type of salami or sausage and seems to be an American product. While there are a myriad of varieties of salamis in Italy, some extremely spicy, pepperoni is actually the word for bell peppers over there, there is no salami or sausage which goes by that name. When my son was six we went on a trip to Italy from Toronto and my son went out to eat pizza with his Italian uncle. At the time my young son did not speak Italian well and when he was asked what kind of pizza would you like my son said "pepperoni pizza please". His uncle looked at him and said "are you sure?" and the boy said yes, When his uncle ordered the pepperoni pizza the owner who was his friend also said "are you sure?" and the uncle said thats what the boy ordered. Needless to say my son got a pizza that was covered in roasted peppers with no salami or "pepperoni" to be found.
Although often difficult to find (I usually have to go to ethnic grocers, or order it online), I really love true sweet paprika. I have it with practically every meal. Any kind of fried potato, is just not the same without it. I mean, homemade french fries with salt and sweet paprika, is just the bomb!
I think there is a genetic basis for having a taste for hot peppers. The gene could have developed over time as a preference for food that is safe from being eaten by insects and rodents. Then humans did not starve.
You said it so right about naming of Chili - "somebody involved in naming process should be fired". The culprit is none other than the great but confused Spanish explorer - Columbus, who not only messed up in naming it as Chili "Pepper" but also with American landmass as "India" (thus, the words like "West Indies" and "Indian" for native Americans). He should have been fired and cast away but unfortunately we celebrate him in Columbus Day.
Oh, donno. Columbus was apprenticed one of his uncles, a ship pilot who traded in Iceland and Greenland for unicorn horns (narwhale), furs, and seal hides. It's possible they went into Hudson Bay to trade, as well, and get ship spars from Northumbria. Columbus owned roters and knew where he was headed. He knew because trade was common in the Americas but kept quiet. chil·i /ˈCHilē/ Origin early 17th century: from Spanish chile, from Nahuatl chilli
Interesting how names are different in different countries. In Australia bell peppers are always called capsicums, chilli peppers are simply called chillies, and the word pepper is used for black and white pepper.
In Australia we usually call them chilli or chilli peppers and then capsicum well capsicums and then the actual pepper tree spice pepper. Much less confusion
Considering how common and wide spread, across the globe they are grown and eaten, it is really surprising. Every year there are new peppers developed.
Definately a must in a diet and garden, even as a Mestizo I've only tasted probably under 20 varieties in different dishes or other consumables, wickedly hot sometimes and tasty savory fruit of the Americas...named my C. Reapers = Shinigami's, for some reason when I think of the "dirty south" think of vinegar being used to nuetralize heat at the cost of flavor and nutrients.
You've turned my theory of the development of chillis upside down ! I had long assumed that the non-spicy bell peppers had come first and some fiend had then developed the hot ones from those harmless ones .
As a Mexican from the south. Thank you for spending so much time on how it was developed in the Americas. So many of these videos start at "peppers come from the Americas, in the 16th century they... And they go from there. You gave it's thousands of years of history some justice. Appreciate it
It's important to recognize the rich history and cultural significance of peppers in the Americas. Taking the time to appreciate their thousands of years of development really honors the contributions of indigenous communities.
@@kiwigarden2024 that's what he just said. A little redundant???
@@rainbowodysseybyjonlionI think it’s some chat bot or something, welcome to the modern internet
Best and hottest peppers I ever had were a gift from a Mexican customer in Phoenix. He grew many varieties and he knew all the tricks. I made them last a long time.
But you areof Spanish decent. You are not Mayan or Aztec. Tou have no claim to peppers.
It is unbelievable how much stuff that we take for granted came from South America: potatoes, tomatoes, chilies, maize, cocoa, avocado, groundnut to name just a small fraction.
South and Central America. At least two or three are from S. Mexico to Costa Rica.
Interestingly enough, the drink that evolved into the modern-day hot cocoa used to be infused with a considerable amount of chili peppers, as well as other herbs and spices. No sweeteners of any kind. It was considered a healthy, medicinal drink, consumed hot or cold, much like a tonic.
@@ernestsmith3581 He is Peruvian. They think everything comes from Peru.
Mexico isnot in south America, it's in North America!
Maize was domesticated in north America
Thank you for leaving the duck quacking in the recording.
I got up and looked around to see where the duck was...
The duck proves this is not AI.
Cool.
i have ducks for neighbors. nothing is cooler than a random drake quacking lol
@@technodrone313 I thought it was the duck that was the loud one as opposed as opposed to the drake.
@@Gibbons3457 drake is an adult male. when you hear that long quack its them showing up to the pond saying "whatup bitches"
It’s amazing how widespread peppers are in the world now - can’t even imagine a lot south and southeast Asian dishes without spicy and yummy peppers!
You mean chilies ?
@@billweirdo9657 You're literally commenting on a video called "the origins of peppers." Don't be obtuse. That's not how you spell chile anyway.
Try to imagine Mexican food without cheese or pork.
@JetstreamGW Yet they aren't peppers. They are chilies ( corrected the typo so you won't be so offended by a typo)
@@billweirdo9657 And we have a dozen fruits called "berry" that aren't berries, what's your point? They're chili peppers. Or chile peppers. Not chilie peppers, that's just a misspelling.
"Fire of Learning" is also what I call it when I have too many spicy peppers and go to the bathroom.
That's also called learning the hot way
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@@WoodyWard Also the burning ring of fire, and it burns, burns, burns...
Montezuma's revenge
@@ahuatltelicza7874Well, not quite yet: 😅 The Ring Of Fire Of Learning...
Johnny Cash, thou shouldst be living at this hour.
4:28 my heart stopped for a moment I thought that was my ducks. She dont sound happy
Probably getting chased by a haitian.
I've missed new uploads like this. Thank you for your videos
Peppers: *evolve spicy taste to deter being eaten*
Humans: Yo this is some gourmet shit!
But birds readily eat wild peppers in Ghana...thus spreading the seed.
Thanks!
Thank you!
in India like the Bhut, are you saying it is cultivated? Or the traditional Thai peppers or Bhutanese peppers. It just seems unlikely to me that so many species can be created so rapidly. I wish you would explain how this can be done given most others vegetables don’t seem to have diversified so much.
4:28 it’s okay take ur time
That's what she said 😮
I thought my browser froze.
My Paprika peppers are ripening... almost time to make a Goulash.
In a couple weeks I'll have to dig up the best ones for the winter... Pepper plants are Perennial if its warm enough
I'm half Hungarian. I love Hungarian wax peppers best.
hello, sir. I actually never learned your name, i apologize (just know im talking to you, fire of learning i couldn't find your name). i wanna thank you. For making things i never knew, i wanted to know so fascinating. In the sea of frankly horrible or brainrot uninformative content slop on this platform, there's you. You're so amazing. A godsend on these platforms you talk so...formally yet are just naturally funny. I suppose that's why you're so good at this. You make these topics so captivating and add your own spin on it and you help me learn new amazing things about myself sometimes the very country i live in haha (U.S ) aswell as other places on this planet and much more. And genuinely have a positive impact on me and make me less stupid, and you are amazing. I wish you a good life and hope you can teach so many others because you're awesome and deserve it all, friend. ❤
Peppers, specifically the non spicy varieties, are one of the most versatile and useful -vegetables- fruits there is.
Chili's *
“specifically the non spicy varieties”
You lost me.
@@diebesgrabspicy peppers are inherently less versatile
@@Higfoot
I'd say the inferior flavor of non-spicy peppers makes THEM inherently less versatile, myself, but eh.
@@diebesgrab not everything needs to be spicy
This should have been an hour long! Thank you for an entertaining and informative video.
Love your videos. Always look forward to the next release!
Thank you!
Good stuff! I have been getting into growing peppers 🌶 this past year, so this insight hit the spot!
Hell yeah. This fits literally the specific niche of content ive been looking for
I’ve been watching your history of fruits and vegetable videos for a couple years now as they pop up in my feed because I watch a lot of gardening stuff. I finally clicked your profile and just realized you have a lot of videos on cryptids and ufos, one of my other interests, how and I only finding out about this now!?!? Great channel 👍
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I heard Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, but how he could pick peppers that were already pickled is, to this day, a mystery.
@socialaccount0000 To pick isn't exclusive to harvesting plants. If you were to reach your hand in a jar to take a pepper from a jar you could say you " picked it" question answered
I suppose the answer to that riddle is... Zero
The duck in the background loves Black Peppers and cheered when you mentioned it.
Wonderful video. It’s good to learn new things.
The part where you cut in the pepper grind- bro I was way to high for that 😂😂😂
Fresh, ripe, spicy hot fire of learning video in my feed? Thanks YT
It's fascinating that bell peppers have existed for just over a hundred years and that they were developed in central europe. I would never have guessed.
@silliaek they weren't. " bell peppers " which aren't the correct name... have been cultivated for over 8 thousand years. The modern " bell pepper" is slightly different from the original cultivation " bell pepper" from 8 thousand years ago. The only difference is color and size being about 10% bigger.
@@billweirdo9657
It's not a stretch of the imagination to think of bell and poblomo types being selected from jalapeno types. Even before development of the mild jalapeno, one could encounter one jalapeno as hot as a habanero, and the next one in the bag as mild as a bell. I've always considered Jalapenos the Jokey Smurf of the capsicum world - you never know what's in the box until you open it.
Blame Columbus for the pepper misnomer.
@roywarriner8441 and yet people still insist on calling the people's of America Indians and chilies peppers. So very ignorant.
@@billweirdo9657 I'm not ignorant, I use First Nations. If I say Indian, I am referring to a native of a southern asian subcontinent. But many plants have a common name as well as a scientific name. It seems that pepper has become a generic common name for any capsicum. Get over it.
Now this is the kind of video I simply cannot pass up. Super interesting origins of every day things, coupled with a broader historical context. 👊🏼😎
Wow! Hard to grasp the bell pepper has been around for only a century!
That's exactly what I was here to note as well and to see if others had heard it. I actually backed up the video a bit to make sure I hadn't misheard that. So in 100 years, we have now a crop that is immense and multi-colored -- and, at least in my area right now - should have an ATM mounted beside their displays to make it easier to afford them.
@frankmosca3707 Haha right (not laughing though)!
The green bell pepper is all we initially had. I recall when I first saw colored “green peppers” in the store. They were striking, smaller than today, but a delight to the eye. I tentatively bought one, orange or red, and was pleased when I tasted it. As I recall, some time later orange came out. The botanists stopped there but there was talk of a purple one. I vaguely recall a striped one. The scientists were having fun, showing off. Explanations in the press were that agricultural botanists had isolated the plant genes for each color, inserted the chosen color, and crossed and crossed the plants until they yielded what we have today. It was probably the large grocery store chains that then fussed that they didn’t have bin space for every color in nature. So they stopped at three. Sweet red, orange, and yellow peppers are 20th century inventions, marvels of DNA science.
As a capsaisin enjoyer myself, this is very informative!
Nice job, as always!
4:27 Normally I would criticize YTbers for keeping in takes like that, but for u Justin, you actually made it funny. hahaha
I see that Crows don't care much for your recording sessions haha
That is almost definitely not a crow...
That is a duck
The word "ají" survives in much of Latin America to this day.
I thought that word sounded familiar!
Oh yeah! This is a topic I've been wanting to see!
Very interesting. Thank you.
As somone allergic to most peppers, it is truly hard to avoid them. And worse, many places dont believe you if you say youre allergic, untill you start having reactions to them when they snuck them in anyways. So thank you for the history, as it is cool to know. :)
I've been waiting my whole life for that joke @2:34.
The Portuguese imported a special variety of pepper today known as "Peri-peri". In East Africa in Mozambique they make a dish of chicken seasoned with peri-peri chili sauce. Nando's is a commercial brand.
Excellent 😃🎉
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Best yet
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finally blessing my feed again!
I like the video, very good information and time line
Great 👍 Video Thanks 😊
OMG. Everybody know that hot peppers originated in the new world. I always wondered about bell peppers. Of course, I thought, they were European. Though I was skeptical. This video explains it all. Other You-tubers were, I guess, worried about political correctness. Asia had NO hot peppers? this is a wonderful history of food. Thank You!!!! (I am 1000% Eastern European, but my love is Mexico).
What lead you to that conclusion, considering they all belong to the same family and have Similar structure/appearance internally and external of the fruit, even tomatoes also as i imagine you are aware (also originating in mexico). The one which always confused me more was aubergine. Belonging to that nightshade also but they do orignate from south asia i believe.
Excellent content
5:30 that got me, was definitely not expecting that 🤣😂🤣😂
Great video
Aji (ahh-hee) yellow peppers are used as a condiment in Peru. This product is found in specialty food stores in jars in refrigerated section.
I just had Aji de Gallina for lunch yesterday at my local Peruvian restaurant.
It's one of my new favorite dishes.
Leaving the overall morality or not of imperialism to other threads, the global history of spicy food is fascinating. Chillies are native to the new world and were introduced to Africa and Asia by the Portuguese. Before that there were curries etc in India but the heat came from peppercorns.
I want to note that at the end of the video, you said pepperoni was the result of Italian experimentation with peppers, but this wording is a bit misleading. Italians invented spicy salami with it in Italy and pepperoni, the less spicy, familiar meat was actually invented by Italian immigrants in the United States.
I had no idea bell peppers and paprika were so recent! Thank you!
that is one fire spicy topic to learn.
A surprise to learn that bell peppers are such a recent development. I was confused as a child because my Missouri relative referred to bell peppers as "mangos".
A lot of info in a relatively short video. 👍
well done, ty.
good info. i LOVE peppers!
I enjoyed the knowledge of this video!! I did learn actually some new things!!!! But the duck had me dead 💀
Interesting video
At home we grew capsicums:
Big capsicums (not hot)
Thin capsicums (not hot)
Hot chillis (unknown variety)
Jalapenos
And always cooked with Hungarian paprika.
Chiles, not a chilii cookoff recepy!😊
Love your videos, when is your next “History of (any country)” video coming?
fascinating
Spicy content, FoL. Spicy content.
AWESOME video 💐👏👍👏💐
Excellent!
Hello Fire of Learning,
I hope you’re doing well.
I’ve been following your history videos for a while and I appreciate how much detail and care you bring to every topic you cover. I'm Miguel and I specialize in providing comprehensive, done-for-you research tailored to content creators like yourself. I’d love to offer my services to you for free as part of a limited test where I help creators add even more factual depth to their videos. It’s designed to save you time while ensuring every detail is well-researched and fact-checked. I genuinely believe my research system could help enrich your already amazing content. If you're interested, I’d be thrilled to connect and help you out on your next project! Keep up the incredible work-your channel is a gem.
Cheers, Miguel
FOL: **explains history of pepper**
also FOL: **surprise duck**
Thank you for yet another spicy episode, lol. This was fascinating. South America has been blessed with so many delicious plants.
God be with you out there, everybody. ✝️ :)
Interesting 👏
You say peppers so nicely
Pleasure to watch
I'm curious to learn more about their historical journey. What were some of the key factors that contributed to their global spread?
It's been so long since you've had a video FOL that I was beginning to think it became Embers of Learning.
Host a local meetup! Very interesting channel and Im in the Cleveland area too!
Plants: Create Nicotine, THC, Capsaisin, and psychedelics to protect themselves from being eaten.
Humans: Oo magic plant... I'm going to hunt down and eat all of these.
Can you please do england part two? It's been like years.
"Fire Of Learning" episode: Peppers. Indeed!
Thanks! Very interesting video! Learned a lot from it! Just some notes and corrections...
1. several types of peppers were used in Western Europe cuisine, namely in Spain and Portugal (which I believe are part of Western Europe).
2. Peppers were grown in Spain since the XVI century when they were brought from America, it was in Extremadura, a region of Spain where the first paprika was made. It arrived to Hungary in the XVII century.
3. The origin of bell peppers and caipsicin free peppers is also from Pre-Columbian farmers in Mesoamerica not Hungary.
A lot of Spanish and consequently American history has been distorted and erased due to the black legend... Don't believe me? I invite you to investigate or, ask chatGPT about it.
Pepperoni which in English at least in North America means a type of salami or sausage and seems to be an American product. While there are a myriad of varieties of salamis in Italy, some extremely spicy, pepperoni is actually the word for bell peppers over there, there is no salami or sausage which goes by that name. When my son was six we went on a trip to Italy from Toronto and my son went out to eat pizza with his Italian uncle. At the time my young son did not speak Italian well and when he was asked what kind of pizza would you like my son said "pepperoni pizza please". His uncle looked at him and said "are you sure?" and the boy said yes, When his uncle ordered the pepperoni pizza the owner who was his friend also said "are you sure?" and the uncle said thats what the boy ordered. Needless to say my son got a pizza that was covered in roasted peppers with no salami or "pepperoni" to be found.
Coincidentally, I just bought some green bell and poblano peppers at the store today, which is not something I normally buy.
The store ratted out your shopping list to Google, and then RUclips pitched this video to you.... it is not an accident.
My name is Pepper and now i realize my parents lied to me.
What’s up, Doc?
Thank you for a fascinating video.
Now I know who to blame for bell peppers.
Tepin are my favorite 🌶️ chile
Had a jalapeno with my lunch literally yesterday, one of the best fruits on earth.
Although often difficult to find (I usually have to go to ethnic grocers, or order it online), I really love true sweet paprika. I have it with practically every meal.
Any kind of fried potato, is just not the same without it. I mean, homemade french fries with salt and sweet paprika, is just the bomb!
I think there is a genetic basis for having a taste for hot peppers. The gene could have developed over time as a preference for food that is safe from being eaten by insects and rodents. Then humans did not starve.
Do a more in depth analysis of bell peppers
The european pallete appreciates more subtle changes in flavor and regards over spicing as error.
This was great. Wow … Bell peppers are only 100 years old … I did not know that.
The bigger question "Does a small brown furry capybara eat peppers"?
It should, its from the Americas after all. 😂
Doesn’t matter it tastes like squirrel
They hotbox them in their fart boxes. (Capybaras shit cubes).
You said it so right about naming of Chili - "somebody involved in naming process should be fired". The culprit is none other than the great but confused Spanish explorer - Columbus, who not only messed up in naming it as Chili "Pepper" but also with American landmass as "India" (thus, the words like "West Indies" and "Indian" for native Americans). He should have been fired and cast away but unfortunately we celebrate him in Columbus Day.
Oh, donno. Columbus was apprenticed one of his uncles, a ship pilot who traded in Iceland and Greenland for unicorn horns (narwhale), furs, and seal hides. It's possible they went into Hudson Bay to trade, as well, and get ship spars from Northumbria. Columbus owned roters and knew where he was headed. He knew because trade was common in the Americas but kept quiet.
chil·i
/ˈCHilē/
Origin
early 17th century: from Spanish chile, from Nahuatl chilli
The chilli hit has health benefits for the immune system if I remember correctly
1 Jalapeño has like around 4 to 6 times the vitamin C as an orange 🍊 if I remember correctly.
Interesting how names are different in different countries. In Australia bell peppers are always called capsicums, chilli peppers are simply called chillies, and the word pepper is used for black and white pepper.
In Australia we usually call them chilli or chilli peppers and then capsicum well capsicums and then the actual pepper tree spice pepper. Much less confusion
"Peperoni." Genius!
Bell peppers are from only the 1920's? Wow.. I did not know that.
Considering how common and wide spread, across the globe they are grown and eaten, it is really surprising. Every year there are new peppers developed.
Pepperoni (2 Ps) was an American creation by Italian immigrants. In Italy, peperoni (1 p) is the Italian plural for pepper.
Definately a must in a diet and garden, even as a Mestizo I've only tasted probably under 20 varieties in different dishes or other consumables, wickedly hot sometimes and tasty savory fruit of the Americas...named my C. Reapers = Shinigami's, for some reason when I think of the "dirty south" think of vinegar being used to nuetralize heat at the cost of flavor and nutrients.
The history of Vanilla Beans next. Very very interesting
And to confuse... in a lot of European countries the bell pepper is called a paprika. And ground up paprika powder.
this is a spicy vid
You've turned my theory of the development of chillis upside down ! I had long assumed that the non-spicy bell peppers had come first and some fiend had then developed the hot ones from those harmless ones .
The last information about the Hungarians developing the bell peppers came as a big surprise to me. Just 100 years ago? Damn!
@@edmundooliver7584 Nah, the Hungarians came here om their own. Attila you know.
Why would you have ever belived that? Pepole like peppers because of their spice
Not to mention Bell Peppers are massive, And unnatural looking
@@jesusramirezromo2037 luckily this is the only contact I'll ever need to have with you. I deal with enough big mouthed goons in real life .