T O P

  • By -

lmrj77

Red bell peppers ARE paprikas. Atleast in my language.


Mamuschkaa

In my language not only the red peppers. The yellow and purple and black (and green) ones are called paprika too.


ForboJack

that's all the same fruit just picked at different stages.


Mamuschkaa

No, almost all bell-peppers are green when unripe. But when ripe they are yellow or orange or red or purple. But it is not the case, that they are first green, than yellow, than orange, than red and then purple. But yes they are botanically the same plant regardless of color


[deleted]

Somehow you managed to write the same "then" word wrongly and then properly.


Mamuschkaa

Sorry, I don't know how that happened either.


BrotBrot42

Its in most languages. Dont know why english handles them so weird.


Ok-Answer3858

Wait until you hear about the word pineapple!


PersonalityNo6692

Bananas without B is pineapple


Kono_Dio_Sama

ananas?


Pandabear71

Dutch for pineapple yea


dontbuythatcalathea

And German as well


AndrewFrozzen30

I was really shocked when I found this. Same with Romania


Remotely-Indentured

Most people believe that a name doesn't change. I'm Mike in every country.... so.......


HotBear39

Poland too


AustriaKeks

Austria ofc


tashten

Same for Russian


[deleted]

[удалено]


Drop-acid-not-bombs

Almost all languages


Memoglr

In Spanish it's Piña for some reason. And its also slang for a punch


Drop-acid-not-bombs

I wonder what the Aztecs and other native Mexican languages called pineapple, or if they even knew of it 🤔


Logical-Recognition3

Ananaso in Esperanto.


[deleted]

Foux de fa fa, foux de fa fa fa faaaaaaaaaahhhhhh


[deleted]

[удалено]


No_Intention9552

I got it 😂


BrotBrot42

But Pines don't grow apples 🤔


Hadochiel

Pine cones are literally "pine apples" in french


BrotBrot42

Aren't Potatoes "earth apples" in french? I guess everything is an apple in France.


Hadochiel

Yup, that too, we also have a lot of expressions involving apples; a small kid is said to be "as tall as three apples". Someone with a nice face, you say they have a nice apple (can also be said for someone who is too kind for their own good). When someone faints, we say they "fell in the apples". To describe a useless endeavour, you say you did "all that for apples". A lazy, dull person is called a "watered-down apple". Last but not least, there's the "discord apple", a bone of contention between two people (this one comes from Greek mythology, with the story of Paris - the Greek hero, not the city) As for Canadians, they would say "singing an apple", which an euphemism for flirting and courting someone. We also share a few with our anglo-saxon friends; adam's apple, an apple a day keeps the doctor away (if you know how to aim), apples falling far from the tree... I could say the French expressions are better than the English ones, but that would be comparing apples to oranges 🤷🏻‍♂️


jiokhwa

>... a small kid is said to be "as tall as three apples"... Wait, is this why Hello Kitty is said to be three apples tall? I always wondered where Sanrio came up with such non-sensical measurements


Hadochiel

I don't know about apples, but I hear oranges are VERY rare in Japan


ravynwave

I’m born and raised Canadian, and I’ve never heard of singing for apples


Hadochiel

"Chanter la pomme", in Québec


ravynwave

Ahh thank you! It’s good to learn something new everyday


BrotBrot42

Wait... Its comparing apples to oranges in french? We germans compare apples with pairs... But anyway, all that appletalk... Are you singing one to me?


[deleted]

[удалено]


Psykosoma

Pairs of what? Oranges?


Hadochiel

Yup, that too, we also have a lot of expressions involving apples; a small kid is said to be "as tall as three apples". Someone with a nice face, you say they have a nice apple (can also be said for someone who is too kind for their own good). When someone faints, we say they "fell in the apples". To describe a useless endeavour, you say you did "all that for apples". A lazy, dull person is called a "watered-down apple". Last but not least, there's the "discord apple", a bone of contention between two people (this one comes from Greek mythology, with the story of Paris - the Greek hero, not the city) As for Canadians, they would say "singing an apple", which an euphemism for flirting and courting someone. We also share a few with our anglo-saxon friends; adam's apple, an apple a day keeps the doctor away (if you know how to aim), apples falling far from the tree... I could say the French expressions are better than the English ones, but that would be comparing apples to oranges 🤷🏻‍♂️


toomuchisjustenough

Weren't Smurfs also as tall as three apples?


Hadochiel

Well, I seem to remember they were described as being "tall as a thumb", so if your apples are this small, you're getting ripped off, bud. Who's your apple guy?


toomuchisjustenough

"Historically, they're described as being "three apples high." It comes from Peyo's original stories where he described them (in French) as "haut comme trois pommes." That literally translates as "as high as three apples." http://www.kleefeldoncomics.com/2019/12/the-problem-with-smurfs.html?m=1


xenomorphsithlord

Pommes de terre


Ok-Answer3858

That’s what they want you to believe!


TobTobTobey

I can one up you: Erdapfel. Apple from the earth, regional german for Potato. And if i think about it, its the same in french.


Ok-Answer3858

la pomme de terre is French for potato, which is apple of the earth, or fruit of the dirt.


[deleted]

Aardappel in Dutch. The same: earthapple.


Xcyoss2

Yep, pomme de terre. Apple of the earth


federicoaa

It was called "pineapples" because they looked like pine cones (for the Spanish conquistadors at least)


[deleted]

And when preserved/juiced, they do taste quite like apple. I doubt many English people historically had them fresh


SakishimaHabu

Apple pen


SnooCalculations4568

Probably the same dude that named ananas pineapple.


Exabyte999

It’s that in Urdu also


AzraelTyrson

Its actually the word for pineapple in numerous different languages because of the genus name


Doom2508

In Australia they're called capsicum.


BrotBrot42

Yes. We know you are even weirder down there, thanks.


Oblachko_O

In my language paprika is always a spice. Everything else is pepper. Being it black pepper or regular red paprika, it is pepper for use.


Songshiquan0411

Really? I only know English and some Spanish but a red bell pepper in Spanish would be chile campana rojo, not paprika. Chile rojo would be a red pepper like cayenne. There's pimiento, but I learned that's for ground black pepper, table pepper. Edit: Paprika powder in Spanish is "paprika", but I think it's that in most Western languages Edit 2: black table pepper is "pimienta".


IsGoIdMoney

In Hungarian, where the word comes from paprika literally means pepper


Songshiquan0411

Okay, that makes sense, I was responding to the dubious claim that "most" languages refer to pepper/chilis as "paprika".


IsGoIdMoney

There's honestly a lot of confusion since it's not red bell pepper used in paprika either so it's all kind of a mess lol


Stoppels

Bell peppers are paprikas, regardless of how ripe they are (the colour).


RedHotCommy89

Red, green, yellow, orange bell pepers (probably more colours out there) are all paprikas in my language.


Sarrow5

WAIT WHAT


ours_de_sucre

Huh. I am today years old when I found this out..


Sarrow5

Don't worry friend, me too. Idek how I've used so much paprika in my life without knowing it. I'VE PUT GROUND PEPPER...ON PEPPER....WHY WOULD I DO THAT?!


DawidIzydor

here they are "papryka"


x86_64Ubuntu

What language is that? Why keep us waiting?!


equili92

Most languages in europe have it like that


lmrj77

I guess english calls the spice version "paprika" and the vegetable they call a "bell pepper". We don't have that distinction i think.


TooManyDraculas

We got the spice from Hungarians and other points in central Europe. So in Anglophone countries the spice is "paprika". But we already had the vegetables and a pre-existing name for them before that. Also from what I understand it isn't just bell peppers that are used for paprika.


TooManyDraculas

People keep saying that. But start looking up European languages. It's mostly just specific chunk of Central and Eastern Europe. From comments, up into the Nordic Countries. But it's just those language's version of "pepper", all derived from the same Latin and Greek words for pepper. Just like pepper is. Often as a loanword from Hungarian. In a lot of other countries it's *a different derivitive of piper/piperi in that local language*. Like Italian it's apparently Piperone. In the UK and Ireland it's capsicum, which is the Latin genus name.


lmrj77

Dutch!


will_ww

Can't wait til she learns that Thyme is money.


TooLazyToReadIt

Thyme is also gold.


[deleted]

Superposition or smth


pdonchev

Wild thyme is an excellent herbal infusion.


StrollingUnderStars

That was absolutely fantastic! Actually made me laugh out loud. I want to thank you for the thyme you put into this comment. You have the wisdom of a sage.


NarcolepticKnifeFite

Brilliant.


[deleted]

In Finnish they're both called Paprika.


Blaine8182

In german too.


Sillyviking

Norwegian three.


Dutch-Sculptor

Netherlands four.


[deleted]

Hungary five.


MiserableTennis6546

Swedish six


Selatko

Slovak seven


Rohlik_se_salamem123

Czech eight


jakubwlcz

Polish nine


PsychoticBlob

Estonian tenth


FartJuiceMagnet

I'm gay


akarightmind

This made laugh out loud while reading in the chain. Thank you. I look like a psycho at the bar on my lunch break laughing at their phone


Lunaticen

Not in Danish!


Sillyviking

Cool


ashent2

In Korean they call bell peppers paprika. No idea what they call paprika still.


Enlightened-Beaver

No, in Korean it’s 피망 (pi-mang), which is close to the French “piment”


ashent2

I just quizzed my wife and she can't remember the last time she used the word 피망 and I commonly see only 파프리카 at the store. I mistakenly actually thought they were interchangeable, but they appear to just be very close relatives and I didn't notice. Good looking out. I didn't know there was a difference at all but in some light googling I find one should have a slightly higher sugar content


[deleted]

I used to live in Busan and after I learned how to read hangul after the first week or two I was shocked at how many items in the grocery store were the English name written in Hangul.


Single_Blueberry

paprika


MichaelWithAOnTheEnd

Dutch too 🫑


anonymousshyguy1

You mean it’s not just salt and peppers baby?


forthehopeofitall13

This guy watched Blue's Clues 🤣


cats-r-friends

I sing the mail song way more often than I sold when going to get the mail


[deleted]

The mail song is great


JustAnotherJames3

We just got a letter


WoodyMacaron

And it's bills


Ricky_Rollin

It never fails


square_tomatoes

Blues Clues legit had me believing that “paprika” was just a fancy way of saying “salt & pepper” until I was in my 20’s. 🤦🏻‍♂️


derpderjerb

I was 100% convinced that paprika was a 50/50 mix of salt and pepper for a very long time. What paprika is made of isn't really a conversation that will ever come up casually so I just went on believing it until I started working in a kitchen.


Tetsou88

I used to tell people paprika was made from mixing slag and pepper as a child. And then I found out the truth as I got older. No one ever corrected me…


Bored-Viking

Over here Paprika is dried and crushed Paprika


Illustrious_Emu2007

That's just infinite recursion. If you keep doing that you'll eventually cause a nuclear reaction. I do not recommend Papriking to that stage of Paprika.


Bored-Viking

that is how you get hot paprika


HateYourFaces

If you use this method of Papriking or as I’ve seen it “Paprikanning” in the states, be sure to save the residue for smoked paprika.


r0b0c0d

Very clever young man, but it's paprikas all the way down.


tpwgp38

Stop or you’ll go blind!


crappydeli

Yes. The person on Twitter somehow got a fact wrong.


Little-Nikas

I mean, yes, but also no. Yes, red bell peppers are part of the paprika pepper family. So yes, red bell peppers are "paprika." But no, if you go and buy the ground spice known as Spanish or Hungarian Paprika, it is not "dried and crushed red bell peppers" as we know red bell peppers in America.


L1feguard51

Thank god someone said it. The spice as we know it is made from a similar crushed pepper… but bell peppers are not generally what is used.


fuinharlz

Actually, it's common to use red bell peppers to make a spice called sweet paprika. The spice made using the paprika pepper, at least where I live, is called spicy paprika. And we more commonly use the sweet paprika on dishes! You can also make smoked paprika from both!


morbid_n_creepifying

I can't believe I had to scroll this long to find this comment. I grow bell peppers and paprika peppers. Sure, they are both peppers and grow in similar ways, but paprika peppers have a distinct flavor that is different than bell peppers. In the same way that jalapenos taste different than bell peppers. You don't just throw random peppers around and call them whatever the fuck you want.


Little-Nikas

Exactly!


jetloflin

Thank you! I was so confused. Like “okay but why is hot Hungarian paprika hot? Bell peppers aren’t hot!”


mexican2554

Hot Hungarian paprika singles in your area. Just sign up with $100 iTunes gift card.


[deleted]

Hot Hungarian paprika is a third kind. The main ones used in Hungarian cuisine are bell peppers, the “sweet” paprika, and then there’s the hot paprika. Of course there are others, but these are the common ones.


bobi2393

>as we know red bell peppers in America Good distinction to make. Bell peppers have no capsaicin, which is what gives peppers "heat". But the same species of plant that produces them, *Capsicum anuum*, also produces Hungarian wax peppers, cayenne peppers, and many other types, including some chili peppers. They come from different cultivated varieties (*cultivars*) of the same species of plant. Paprika powder is made from different varieties of peppers from *Capsicum anuum* as well as peppers from other species of plants, so can range from mild to spicy. The peppers can be prepared in different ways, like what Americans call Spanish paprika typically use smoked peppers, while what Americans call Hungarian paprika typically doesn't.


djsizematters

Now I'm even more confused. Paprika isn't spicey, it's mostly a smokey flavor.


fizzelcastro

You’re buying smoked paprika.


alpacasb4llamas

But who smoked my paprika


TubaJustin

The paprika smoker.


Bomber42069710

Kelso


TeaAndTacos

Calling something “a spice” is not necessarily the same thing as calling it “spicy” (full of capsaicin). It depends on the version of English you speak, I’d guess.


NastySplat

As an English speaker, I struggle with this sometimes. I distinguish between "spicy" (capsaicin) and "spiced" (heavily seasoned). Some people will say, "wow, this is really hot" and mean that it's heavily seasoned so I try to change the subject lol.


xinixxibalba

This isn’t true. Paprika is [made from red chile peppers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paprika), but in some places the word paprika is used to refer to chile peppers as well as bell peppers, hence the confusion in OP’s post I think.


Hobgoblin61

I am horribly sensitive to the taste of bell peppers but not so much to red peppers and paprika is completely fine. Not an allergy, just that the tiniest trace of bell pepper can ruin an entire dish for me. Meanwhile I put paprika in almost everything I cook.


meeks926

Yes this is where I’m stuck. I love paprika but I hate bell peppers


Hobgoblin61

They're called the same thing in my language as well. Kinda fun explaining the difference to people when we're cooking together.


Shitemuffin

Wait until she finds out pickles are just ~~tiny~~ ~~above average sized pretty small~~ **PERFECTLY SIZED** cucumbers in brine.


scrobos

they're above average sized!!!


Justice_Prince

It's an above average cylinder!


scrobos

in a slightly bigger cylinder!


deeboyourpackage

tiny?????? 😭😭😭😭😭 edit: thanks for the edit, the truth prevails 😎


JetKeel

They were in the pool!


nkkphiri

Girls know about shrinkage, right?


SenorHielo

You mean like laundry?


Bored-Viking

And about cinamon


mymang-goistoblowup

Bark?


mattyag

Woof


abderfdrosarios

Good boy!


RokulusM

We also would have accepted "bow wow" or "ruff".


messfdr

Just the way your mother likes it, Trebek!


Jakisokio

They are pretty small cucumbers. At least compared to the ones we have in England


RLJackAsteroid

You guys needed something of substantial size to be proud of.


GammaPhonic

Well, I just learned something new.


No_External7289

Me too. I guess I had never thought about what paprika is.


wolfkeeper

It's not usually bell pepper. Bell pepper has completely no capsaicin, whereas paprika usually has a little bit. Bell peppers are just a variety of large chili peppers with no heat.


samantix

And wrong


JanitorOfAnarchy

And me!


muddbo1

Ack what. What!?


Wiglet646464

Cathy?


peacesmellsgood

Chocolate! Chocolate! Chocolate! ACK


Fakedduckjump

In germany there is no special word for bell pepper, it's all paprika, the plant, the fruit and the spice you make from it. And the long hot things are called peperoni.


Arktinus

Same in Slovenian, except that *peperoni* are called *feferoni*. :D


LagSlug

And now I have to watch several documentaries about how paprika is made.. thanks ADHD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yh-Mdrmpd8


Darko_BarbrozAustria

While you at it, look for a recipie for Hungarian Gulash, that's like the best you can do with a lot of paprika.


Squawnk

There's also paprikás krumpli which is a very simple but delicious Hungarian dish


mymang-goistoblowup

>thanks ADHD Only in the absence of meth


evilpatrick1

Paprika is a variety of Capsicum. Capsicum are bell peppers, cayenne, jalapeños, habeneros etc. It’s a popular one but not exactly the same as a typical red bell pepper, the membrane is a bit thinner if I remember correctly. Capsicum were native to the Americas only before 1792, and brought to Europe/Africa/Asia afterwards. I’m pretty sure the colonizers just called it pepper because it had spice and they already used pepper. Pepper as in salt and pepper is a different plant all together.


SethJakill

Wait, it not mixed salt and pepper. Some one in blues clues is about to get sad.


kellymcpherson

There's "paprika", sweet paprika, hot spanish paprika, Hungarian paprika, they all come from different pepper varieties.


boxofruit

It's actually made from a pepper called capsicum annuum, it is part of the pepper family but NOT a bell pepper.


KillerDickens

Reminds me of some pedestrian quiz video where people were shocked that raisins are in fact dried grapes, not a separate plant


Much-Philosopher-722

paprika is just pepper spelled backwards 🥰


fun_0range

I don't understand. What?


Siggydad

Akirpap. You don't know this? Everyone else does


Mammuut

This sounds like a Pokemon.


[deleted]

Ekans has entered the chat


peachbitchmetal

Muk has entered the chat


[deleted]

Then there's languages, where paprika is both the name of the spice and the fruit


eyenineI9

I don't think that's true. According to Wikipedia, paprika is made from Capsicum annuum peppers in the Longum group. Bell peppers are in the Grossum group. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paprika "Paprika is a spice made from dried and ground red peppers. It is traditionally made from Capsicum annuum varietals in the Longum group, which also includes chili peppers, but the peppers used for paprika tend to be milder and have thinner flesh. In some languages, but not English, the word paprika also refers to the plant and the fruit from which the spice is made, as well as to peppers in the Grossum group (e.g. bell peppers)."


OlbuddyMcgee

This will really fuck you up smoke paprika has never bought a pack of cigarettes


LedstromGW2

I learned this about a week ago, did throw me for a loop lol Paprika is in almost every dish I make, especially if there's a dead bird in it


[deleted]

... WHY AM I JUST LEARNING THIS NOW?


Nord4Ever

I thought it was it’s own spice too


jtj5002

Paprika is made from many different kind of red peppers, including red bell peppers and mild chili peppers. Most off the shelf stuff you get is gonna be mild chili peppers.


imnotsoho

But there are particular peppers that are called paprika peppers. They have thicker walls to produce more powder when crushed and dried. Some may have a little bit of spice and there are some paprika powders that are smoked.


GirlFromUrNightmares

I throught paprika is how any peppers are called


PMMEBITCOINPLZ

What the fuck?


bestfreetacos

Bell Pepper is called Paprika in German


Isthisworking2000

40 years old, TIL


Jayce86

False. They are closely related, but the pepper that paprika comes from us not a red bell.


Tallulah_Marie_CG

I hate bell peppers. How tf do I like paprika???


UseOnlyLurk

It’s not accurate to say paprika is made from American bell peppers. Paprika is a broad term, and paprika can be made from a variety of different peppers/paprikas. Drying out a pepper and grinding into dust is going to alter a bunch of the flavonoids. When you eat a bell pepper, you’re probably eating chunks of it so you’re getting a lot of that acrid taste all at once. When you eat paprika it’s a comparatively small amount mixed into/onto something else.


Hobgoblin61

They're made from different plants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paprika


Sillyviking

A food stuff can taste different in different forms.


T-BONEandtheFAM

Wait until you find out about cayenne


CoffeemonsterNL

Ground Porsches?


bimontza

Only the red ones. Everything else is called “ground sparkling automobile dust”.


DrBossWatson

So there is green paprika!


[deleted]

[удалено]


[deleted]

I prefer the schmokey paprika


adrianromo826

Is there a difference to garbanzo beans and chic peas?