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submitted 1 month ago by avidamoeba@lemmy.ca to c/buycanadian@lemmy.ca

Sometime ago I bought a Peugeot pepper mill and it came with a small sample of their own black pepper. I was shocked at how much stronger, hot and nice the taste and smell was compared whatever I had in a jar from the grocery store. It reminded me of black pepper I was used to some decades ago back in Europe.

I bought a few packets of this Peugeot pepper and it really is great, but it's also expensive. Given what I know about coffe and irs flavours, I'm guessing most of it comes down to how fresh the pepper is.

Do you know of a source that sells fresh black pepper?

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[-] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Silk Road Spice Merchant, out of Calgary.

Not only do they carry top-tier spices, but they likely have multiple types of black pepper for you to play with. And they're good people.

Cannot speak highly enough about them.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Oh yeah baby, they have the same type I tried from Peugeot for a lot less. I'll order some.

E: ordered. I guess we're back to spice merchants! 😄

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Black pepper arrived. It's the bomb. It only accentuates how sad whatever-the-fuck FreshCo sold my wife is. The difference is so stark, it's like a different spice altogether.

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

One point with the pepper you normally buy is that it could have been cooked to distill off the peperin. This is something that happens where the law permits it. Here, for example, it is legal to do this, but then they have to grind it and sell it as powder, and they don't need to tell you what they did. In the next country, this is illegal.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Wow. Reading a bit, it seems like it's not illegal to sell peppercorns after such extracrion in Canada.

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

It pays to watch Sebastian Lege...

[-] gogd@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

We have bought lots of spices from Spice Treckers https://spicetrekkers.com/en-ca/ in Montreal. They're also known as Epices de Cru en Francais. Really excellent quality and selection, and they also ship via Canada Post.

Also highly recommended.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Will store in my wiki. Merci!

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