The Origins of Peppers Explained 

Thank you for leaving the duck quacking in the recording.

It is unbelievable how much stuff that we take for granted came from South America: potatoes, tomatoes, chilies, maize, cocoa, avocado, groundnut to name just a small fraction.

4:28 my heart stopped for a moment I thought that was my ducks. She dont sound happy

4:28 it’s okay take ur time

It’s amazing how widespread peppers are in the world now - can’t even imagine a lot south and southeast Asian dishes without spicy and yummy peppers!

Peppers, specifically the non spicy varieties, are one of the most versatile and useful -vegetables- fruits there is.

As a Mexican from the south. Thank you for spending so much time on how it was developed in the Americas. So many of these videos start at "peppers come from the Americas, in the 16th century they... And they go from there. You gave it's thousands of years of history some justice. Appreciate it

"Fire of Learning" is also what I call it when I have too many spicy peppers and go to the bathroom.

Food is not complete for me without peppers. Hello from México. :)

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I've missed new uploads like this. Thank you for your videos

I've been waiting my whole life for that joke @2:34.

4:27 Normally I would criticize YTbers for keeping in takes like that, but for u Justin, you actually made it funny. hahaha I see that Crows don't care much for your recording sessions haha

Love your videos. Always look forward to the next release!

Peppers are flavor enhancers, an acrouchoman and condiment. It’s also a weapon and pesticide. I love them🐸🍺🔪🔥

My Paprika peppers are ripening... almost time to make a Goulash. In a couple weeks I'll have to dig up the best ones for the winter... Pepper plants are Perennial if its warm enough

It's fascinating that bell peppers have existed for just over a hundred years and that they were developed in central europe. I would never have guessed.

At home we grew capsicums: Big capsicums (not hot) Thin capsicums (not hot) Hot chillis (unknown variety) Jalapenos And always cooked with Hungarian paprika.

Peppers: *evolve spicy taste to deter being eaten* Humans: Yo this is some gourmet shit!

Fresh, ripe, spicy hot fire of learning video in my feed? Thanks YT

Very interesting. Thank you.

I heard Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, but how he could pick peppers that were already pickled is, to this day, a mystery.

The bigger question "Does a small brown furry capybara eat peppers"?

Nice job, as always!

OMG. Everybody know that hot peppers originated in the new world. I always wondered about bell peppers. Of course, I thought, they were European. Though I was skeptical. This video explains it all. Other You-tubers were, I guess, worried about political correctness. Asia had NO hot peppers? this is a wonderful history of food. Thank You!!!! (I am 1000% Eastern European, but my love is Mexico).

Yaaay my favorite series on this channel ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Now this is the kind of video I simply cannot pass up. Super interesting origins of every day things, coupled with a broader historical context. 👊🏼😎

The word "ají" survives in much of Latin America to this day.

I like the video, very good information and time line

Thanks!

Love your videos, when is your next “History of (any country)” video coming?

Plants: Create Nicotine, THC, Capsaisin, and psychedelics to protect themselves from being eaten. Humans: Oo magic plant... I'm going to hunt down and eat all of these.

Spicy content, FoL. Spicy content.

Excellent!

You say peppers so nicely

Oh yeah! This is a topic I've been wanting to see!

fascinating

Tepin are my favorite 🌶️ chile

Thank you for yet another spicy episode, lol. This was fascinating. South America has been blessed with so many delicious plants. God be with you out there, everybody. ✝️ :)

Leaving the overall morality or not of imperialism to other threads, the global history of spicy food is fascinating. Chillies are native to the new world and were introduced to Africa and Asia by the Portuguese. Before that there were curries etc in India but the heat came from peppercorns.

I had no idea bell peppers and paprika were so recent! Thank you!

Although often difficult to find (I usually have to go to ethnic grocers, or order it online), I really love true sweet paprika. I have it with practically every meal. Any kind of fried potato, is just not the same without it. I mean, homemade french fries with salt and sweet paprika, is just the bomb!

finally blessing my feed again!

Pepperoni which in English at least in North America means a type of salami or sausage and seems to be an American product. While there are a myriad of varieties of salamis in Italy, some extremely spicy, pepperoni is actually the word for bell peppers over there, there is no salami or sausage which goes by that name. When my son was six we went on a trip to Italy from Toronto and my son went out to eat pizza with his Italian uncle. At the time my young son did not speak Italian well and when he was asked what kind of pizza would you like my son said "pepperoni pizza please". His uncle looked at him and said "are you sure?" and the boy said yes, When his uncle ordered the pepperoni pizza the owner who was his friend also said "are you sure?" and the uncle said thats what the boy ordered. Needless to say my son got a pizza that was covered in roasted peppers with no salami or "pepperoni" to be found.

I can taste the "greennees" of a jalapeno as you speak 😋 I like them raw yummy.

Host a local meetup! Very interesting channel and Im in the Cleveland area too!

Coincidentally, I just bought some green bell and poblano peppers at the store today, which is not something I normally buy.

The european pallete appreciates more subtle changes in flavor and regards over spicing as error.

It's been so long since you've had a video FOL that I was beginning to think it became Embers of Learning.

And to confuse... in a lot of European countries the bell pepper is called a paprika. And ground up paprika powder.

I like peppers, I have some bell type growing outside and had some banana ones too,

As far as I know, the theory that pepper became spicy to avoid mammals eating had being disproven or at least challenged. Not only we, humans, a mammal, eat them, but other mammals eat them too. Most of the really spice peppers had being made by selective breading and are not natural anyway. Native plants don't seen to me more or less spicier if there or aren't mammals to eat them, in fact they usually will go bland if they can. What they did find out is that the spiciness compound is really good at repealing insects and killing fungi. The more insect bites a plant has and the more fungi it exposed to, more spicier it seens to get, and the more spicy it get, less likely it's to be eating by insects or fungi, not mammals. So spicy peppers "burning" mammals is a side effect of what is basically a natural pesticide. Natural plants aren't THAT spicy and are not trying to be spicier to mammals and will go bland if no or few insects and fungi are present, even if it means being eaten by a mammal instead of a bird.

The chilli hit has health benefits for the immune system if I remember correctly

"Peperoni." Genius!

AWESOME video 💐👏👍👏💐

Definately a must in a diet and garden, even as a Mestizo I've only tasted probably under 20 varieties in different dishes or other consumables, wickedly hot sometimes and tasty savory fruit of the Americas...named my C. Reapers = Shinigami's, for some reason when I think of the "dirty south" think of vinegar being used to nuetralize heat at the cost of flavor and nutrients.

im growing 7 different types of peppers this year. all burny burn burn burn

I am allergic to peppers. And still enjoyed your videos.

Damn, there goes my first line of defense for wild parakeets!

Interesting

"Fire" of Learning, amirite.

Had a jalapeno with my lunch literally yesterday, one of the best fruits on earth.

The history of Vanilla Beans next. Very very interesting

Pause for the duck was fun

hey dont wanna bother but im really looking forward to the history of italy part because of the mafia.

this is a spicy vid

I’m sorry, but you’re wrong. The US and Canada saw peppers become popular because exposure to Mexican cuisine. Before then, in older cook books, it is extremely rare to see it referenced at all.

My wife and I raise ducks and I for a second though the ducks in the videos were ours, as they like to hang outside our living room window

Bell peppers are from only the 1920's? Wow.. I did not know that.

So, if the phorusrhacids were still around we'd need a different active ingredient than we use for bear spray. :D

Napoleon’s influence on the world is truly incalculable

My Dad got ahold of one of those wild pepper plants and bought it home, he called it Mexican peanuts, WOW are they hot my wife and I each had an opportunity to prank someone they'd give you the hiccups but they were good in chile as long as you didn't use to many.

I found myself wondering just a few days ago how peppers spread throughout the world cuz I knew they were a new world fruit, then I started thinking about potatoes.

I've encountered bell peppers being called 'mangos' in the American Midwest. (Indiana, Ohio)

In my country, chili pepper is used to cure dry eyes and pinkeye.

Peppers trully are one of the most sucessful plants out there

The only bird that mugs people are seagulls.

My mom called me pepper when I was a kid. I'll need to ask her if she meant Chili Pepper or Black Pepper.

I didn't now the bell pepper was that new.

hmmmm pepperoni, my favorite pepper

Watching this while having jalapeño pizza for breakfast

Ducks hate peppers!

I am eating an orange bell pepper and cheese right now 😋

Can we get some USA 🇺🇸 native foods we stopped eating but really shouldn’t have or at least keep it as a backup 2nd to go to food. Like oak or better yet native and yes there are edible kinds of mangrove trees fruits and yes they can even live in 100% fresh water or ocean water but most commonly found in 50%50%. Thoughts on that being a video. Fun fact oak has bad things in it that can potentially help are health in very small amounts. 1 more fun fact mangroves reduce ocean storm damage and river damage from rain as they slow and absorbs the energy of the stroke water it also provides homes for fish with there roots.

Pepper is pepper. Chilli is chilli.

Bell peppers are for me. “Hot” peppers are off my shopping list. I do not like food that bites back!

Where did Black Pepper originate? I am a black pepper holic. 4:49 Edit - That was fast to edit the video and answer my question in near real time. India.

That makes me want to try some spicy paprika. 🤔

My name is Pepper and now i realize my parents lied to me.

Pepperoni (2 Ps) was an American creation by Italian immigrants. In Italy, peperoni (1 p) is the Italian plural for pepper.

😂 literally just harvested a ton of peppers about a half hour ago.

My assumption going into this video is that the skinny peppers are the result of selective breeding of the bigger ones… or maybe the other way around

Peppers are delicious, healthy and hot ones get me high.

Crunch..... AHHH!

Bear spray wouldn't work in Jurassic Park.

WE LOVE PEPPERS

And I'm allergic to both kinds, black and hollow... probably the hollow ones more.

4:30 😂

Spicy is the incorrect word to describe the hotness of peppers. The proper word is piquant. Many middle eastern dishes are spicy but not piquant.

Let’s goooooo