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Roasted Peppers!

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Maybe this doesn’t qualify as popular culture, then again, maybe it does. After all, everybody has to eat, and everybody’s got an opinion as to what’s delicious. Here’s my opinion on the roasted Capsicum annuum.

I hated peppers when I was younger. Didn’t like the taste, the texture, the color. All bad. Then, sometime during my high school, psuedo-competitive eating phase,  someone called into question my intestinal fortitude when I wouldn’t eat hot peppers. I rectified that situation and fell in love. Thereafter, every time I had a chance, I’d order the hot banana peppers or jalapeno slices on sandwiches when restaurants had them on the menu as an option. Still later, my dad (whose own judgment can be spotty) offered me some roasted red peppers with some sharp provolone. It wasn’t a hot pepper, it was the red variety of Bell pepper, which I’d always hated. Dad explained these were different, because they were roasted and packed in olive oil, and would I just try it? Skeptical, but unwilling to back down from the challenge, I took a pepper and some provolone and…

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