When people add salt and pepper to say chips, which pepper is it typically?
I had chicken and chips recently with pepper and it was black colour bits, would it have been black pepper?
asked Apr 4, 2019 at 22:40
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If the black bits were pepper, it was probably black pepper. Are you sure the black bits were pepper and not something else?– Johannes_BCommented Apr 5, 2019 at 5:13
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It is typically black pepper. The two common black varieties are Tellicherry and Malabar. The peppercorn is the fruit of a flowering vine that is harvested when it is red, and ripe. Each fruit contains one seed, which is dried and then packaged whole or ground.
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Occasionally white pepper gets used. Almost never the red ones. Commented Apr 6, 2019 at 0:28
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No, the peppercorn is the dried fruit. It's a drupe fruit (aka "stone fruit"), which contains a single seed in its centre. Commented Apr 16, 2019 at 15:50