Bell peppers or the sweet peppers are a cultivar group of the species Capsicum annuum (chili pepper).
With C. annuum being the only species with sweet peppers in it like bell and nardello. Why then must people routinely refer to all chili's as 'peppers'? C. baccatum, C. frutescens, C. pubescens, C. chinense are all chili's. A bell pepper has one thing missing the one thing that makes a chili a chili. Capsaicin!
You never call a bell pepper a bell chili so why discredit a Naga Morich by calling it a pepper! When in fact it is a C. Chinense not a C. annuum thus called a Chili.
Chile, Chili, Chilli it's all the same just a different spelling.
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Bell's or Tepin
Hmmm Thanks for the info :) I just 'thought' all peppers were chilis and all chilis were peppers.
I thought all REAL Texans knew this! ;)
I seriously think most people just assume that they are all the same.
If that's all I need to know to be a REAL Texan then I guess I'm set now ;)
I'm born and bred Texan and never gave it thought, one way or the other.
Me to.
I just think this way.
Can I just call them Sweet peppers and Hot Peppers?
You can if that is what your comfortable with.
That's what my customers ask for.
I list everything hot as 'chili and the sweets as 'peppers' on my site and in talk. But I usually have to give a common name when I only speak of chili's as everybody calls them peppers.
I just continue to call them as they are Chili's are hot Peppers are not!
This message was edited Sep 18, 2010 9:34 PM
Chilis are hot...Peppers are not
good way to remember :)
Yeah it's catchy!
Well, all my seed catalogs list hot peppers and sweet peppers, but I get what you're saying. You may want to post some of this info on the peppers forum too.
Yeah well if you say something long enough ( whether it's true or not) everyone will start saying it. Then how can you even try and correct it when you are the only one that calls it differently?
Well now you know where I stand.