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No one was going to waste expensive meat on slaves.
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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.
i thought we were referring to the items on the picture, where black pepper isn't displayed, but bell/chilli peppers are
I thought we were talking of pepper. Bell pepper is a different plant.
it said peppers(plural), because it had chilli and bell peppers pictured
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.
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.
It is for me, I think ol' emergency there is in a 'tism loop.
I thought writing 'peppers' instead of 'pepper' was a more likely mistake than calling a completely unrelated plant 'pepper' just because it has that word in one version of its name. My bad.