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Yup. In Sri Lanka we calls chilies "miris," and pepper "gam miris" (translation: village chilies). I guess folks originally used pepper as the way to set their
by npsomaratna 3y ago
Yup. In Sri Lanka we calls chilies "miris," and pepper "gam miris" (translation: village chilies).
I guess folks originally used pepper as the way to set their mouths on fire; and once introduced, happily jumped over to chilies as a much better way to do so.
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- petesergeant 3y agoOh, interesting! In Thai, peppercorns are พริกไทย, literally “Thai chilli”, where I think most Westerners would think of (and indeed Wikipedia says that) Thai chillis as being bird chilli (พริกขี้หนู, lit “mouse shit chilli”)
- resolutebat 3y agoPhrik kii nuu is a specific type of chilli pepper, namely bird's eye/chilli padi, the really spicy small ones. There are many other varieties: https://www.foodrepublic.com/1295447/what-are-different-thai-chilies/ https://www.foodrepublic.com/1295447/what-are-different-thai...
- naniwaduni 3y agoIs the implication that chili displaced local peppers as the "default" spicy condiment assigned the basic vocabulary item, with the latter relegated to the status of a "rural"/"traditional" variant?