WHAT.
But the taste…
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I can’t say I’ve been very fastidious in my exploration, but I’ve found Hungarian Paprika to be my favorite. Are these different peppers than others? Differently dried? I cannot say!
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I spent a year in Serbia and learned that peppers are very important (and that Ajvar and Rakija are delicious).
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For extra confusion, a lot of the cheap food in NRW (the region in which Essen is situated) is quite bland, and “paprika” there is just “pepper”, as in your basic crushed black.
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I asked Mum, and it seems the abbreviation is used here. I just don’t talk about flowers enough to have encountered it.
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Paprika (Capsicum or bell peppers) and Pfeffer (pepper) are two different things though. Paprika is sweet peppers / bell peppers, the vegetable. Not spicy at all, it is not chili peppers (which we call Chilischoten, no mention of Paprika here). There is a Paprika spice but it is also the sweet variant. Spicy variants don’t have the word Paprika in it. Cayennepfeffer, Chiligewürz, etc.
Pfeffer is black pepper like you said just basic crushed black.
It was hard for me to learn what peppers are in English, how to differentiate between bell and chili peppers because they both are peppers and we don’t use the same word for them in German.
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I always thought “studded leather” was weird, but today I learned it never existed. RPG writers misinterpreted images(?) of brigandine armour, and a fantasy was born.
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Well that’s riveting information!
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Related and with a quote I love:
Meyrick had allowed the artistic conventions to feed his confabulatory obsessions
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Oh! That’s really interesting. Because I have definitely been to places where they offered “paprika” as an ingredient but the only spice was coming out of a pepper grinder. Thank you.
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Adult glow-worms do not eat.
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TIL: I’m not an adult glow-worm.
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“We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.”
-Sir Winston Churchill
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Never said anything about drinking, after all.
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check again tomorrow?
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I thought that the violin and the fiddle were physically different instruments until I was in at least my mid-twenties. Came to light when I was talking to a violin player, trying to explain that I liked the sound of the fiddle but not the violin…
One fact that has stuck with me since school is that 26 is the only number between a square and a cube. Both the fact itself (there are a lot of numbers. Like, really, a lot. But 26 is the only one for which this is true!) and also the fact that it can be proved (even though I have forgotten the proof, if I ever knew it) are why I think maths is cool.
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Probably 20 years ago, I heard a radio program (quite likely an episode of Radio Lab), which talked with people about things that they’d learned as an adult, which everyone else learned as a child. I don’t remember much of it, but one line has stuck with me – “But what about the unicorns?” – from a woman who thought unicorns were an African plains animal like zebra and gazelles.
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That seems very weird to me, I wonder what @yashima thinks.
Paprika as an ingredient in a dish or as a additional spice in a shaker?
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I’m disappointed that there’s not a Numberphile video on it.
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Well we put salt and pepper grinders kn the table for meals where it is appropriate. Paprika is not usually on the table. Due to my partner’s Hungarian heritage we use liberal amounts of paprika (which exists in variants from sweet to super spicy) in the relevant dishes (Gulasch mostly) or on open faced sandwiches (Butterbrot, auf Frischkäse so lecker) . We mostly get it imported via family from Hungary because the amounts you can buy here are… not enough .
My parentd are both from Ruhrgebiet (Essen , Dortmund) and from my childhood I remember we had the two small Aldi shakers red for paprika and blue for pepper. Both tasted very bland. But that was cooking in the 80s.
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