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I had an Indian guy tell me Indians have been eating chilies for thousands of years and that’s why they can tolerate spicy food more than Americans. I told him chilies come from the Americas, aren’t native to India, and only arrived after the Columbian exchange. The guy nearly wanted to fight me over it, insisting that chilies are native to India.

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TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
He’s an idiot. We were using peppers before we got our hands on chillies.

Tell him Peru and Thailand have more varieties of chillies to burst his nerve.

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- chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  If by peppers you mean black pepper, sure. But sweet bell peppers are the same species as jalapeños: Capsicum annuum.
  
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  - TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Green, black, and white pepper (three life stages of peppercorn) along with long pepper, horseradish, and ginger.
    
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prettybunnys@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Or tomato sauce being a product of the Americas 🫠

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- abbadon420@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Tomato sauce is clearly a native Italian product /s
  
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