Post #2012082

> paprika (capsicum? never sure what the English word is In US English, paprika usually refers to the spice made from dried, ground-up peppers. When in doubt, we usually just call anything in the *capsicum* genus a "pepper", or if it's spicy, "chili". Specific varieties might be called out, often named after the region they come from (e.g., Hatch peppers from the hatch valley, Anaheim peppers from anaheim). The US has a huge Latino influence for obvious reasons, and Latin America is where peppers are from, so we generally have a huge variety of peppers available in our stores, many of which we use the ~~spanish~~ Latino name for (names are often based on indigenous languages). In a normal supermarket, we might have a dozen fresh pepper varieties depending on time of year (bell, jalapeño, habanero, poblano, Serrano, wax, banana, shishito, Anaheim, fresno, birds eye, etc), a handful of pickled (peperoncini, jalapeño, etc), a handful of canned (hatch, Chipotle, etc.), and a handful or so dried chilis (pasilla, guajillo, arbol, cascabel, ancho, mulatto, etc). I think some English dialects use "capsicum" as a name, but here that would confuse most people.