"Cookie Cutter" > wrote

> quite right. Cortes and Columbus also brought peppers to
the new world
> and they made it ASAP to India/Pakistan, probably in the
same crate with

Whereby a huge amount of confusion was caused by the use of
the word "pepper", the black peppercorn variety of which was
known in the West in Roman times.

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