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grumpy_cat@thelemmy.club to History Memes@piefed.socialEnglish · 5 days ago

No one was going to waste expensive meat on slaves.

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No one was going to waste expensive meat on slaves.

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grumpy_cat@thelemmy.club to History Memes@piefed.socialEnglish · 5 days ago
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  • expatriado
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    definitely no corn, beans or peppers before Columbus

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      No banana either

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      Or orange carrots before the Dutch.

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      It was the penne that felt out of place for me

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          100% my reaction

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        Rigatoni, tyvm

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      Or pumpkins, but those ones look way too small to eat

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      Pepper is from south Asia, and was available to the ancient Romans through Arab traders.

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        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_pepper

        may want to edit Wikipedia then

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          That’s bell pepper.

          (Black) Pepper = Piper nigrum, native to south Asia, used across large parts of the world since antiquity.

          Bell pepper or chilli = Capsicum annuum, native to Central America, now also grown in Eurasia.

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            i thought we were referring to the items on the picture, where black pepper isn’t displayed, but bell/chilli peppers are

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              I thought we were talking of pepper. Bell pepper is a different plant.

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                it said peppers(plural), because it had chilli and bell peppers pictured

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                  No no, bell pepper and chilli are (nearly) the same - Capsicum annuum and closely related species. Their hotness comes from capsaicin.

                  Pepper is completely different - it comes from Piper nigrum, and contains piperin. Confusingly, it is also called black, green or white pepper.

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                    Black pepper is an uncountable, so it isn’t used in plural. Bell and chilli peppers are count nouns. That, plus the reference picture, should have been clear for most people.

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          But if Columbus was right then the Americas and Asia is the same.

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