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Re:Why Italy Fell Out of Love with Cilantro by teractiveodular on Monday July 08, 2024 @01:24AM (#40902816)
It's even harder to imagine India without chillies.
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Re:Why Italy Fell Out of Love with Cilantro by trueismywork on Monday July 08, 2024 @06:49AM (#40904252)
India used black pepper before chillies so things were just as hot. Just a different kind of hot.
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Re:Why Italy Fell Out of Love with Cilantro by anthonypasq on Monday July 08, 2024 @10:20AM (#40905675)
putting an extreme amount of black pepper in a dish does not make it unbearably spicy, it just makes it taste way too much like pepper.

theres definitely no way black pepper can be "just as hot" as chillies

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Re:Why Italy Fell Out of Love with Cilantro by trueismywork on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @06:27AM (#40925479)
You haven't used really hot black peppers then. Also I say black peppers but also people used cloves and bay leaves.

It is a different spice so yeah, it doesn't burn the tongue but just heats up your body.

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