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29 October 2012

Bell peppers I always wondered why they called them bell peppers since they didn't resemble bells...Then I finally realized. JINGLE bells. They look like great big green (or red or orange or yellow) jingle bells!

post by: serena at: 13:12 | 7 comments

"They look like great big green (or red or orange or yellow) jingle bells!"

This phrase summons Cthulhu.

posted by Ardiril 29 October | 13:25

They are capsicums.

/Australian English

posted by gomichild 29 October | 16:29

ZOMG you blew mah mind!

posted by Specklet 29 October | 17:38

Ah HA. I am enlightened.

posted by Miko 29 October | 18:51

True facts from my childhood...At one time, bell peppers were called mangoes. Honest! I endured a childhood full of "stuffed mangoes", which were, basically, green bell peppers filled with hamburger and rice, covered with canned tomato soup, and baked to death.

And, the only peppers you ever saw in stores were green.

posted by Thorzdad 30 October | 10:56

I grew up calling red, yellow and orange peppers "Holland" peppers.

posted by initapplette 30 October | 16:04

Thorzdad get the Abe Simpson award for "at one time" stories!

posted by arse_hat 30 October | 23:57

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