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American recipes are annoying (lemm.ee)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Capsicum is also the family of the plant, so it makes sense to call it that.

It could also be that the name was taken from the French (or other language maybe) "poivron" which is pretty close to "poivre," which is the word for pepper/peppercorn.