This last spring, I'd bought a six pack of assorted peppers from Home Depot. When they finally started to produce peppers, two of the plants put out what looked like bell peppers.
"Cool!" I thought. I love bell peppers. But the plant produced about twenty of them and they seemed to stop growing at 2 inches. I haven't picked any waiting to see if they would get any bigger or change in anyway. They haven't.
Finally, the other day I decided it was time to to pick a couple and see what they taste like. I was going to approach this very carefully. The last thing I needed was to burn off my tongue. So, I brought them in and threw them in the basket with the tomatoes that needed to finish ripening. When I looked a couple days later, one of them changed colors. First yellow, now a pale orange.
By the way, my web search is assuring me there is such a thing as a "Baby Bell Pepper." And indeed, when I cut it open, it looked and smelled like a bell pepper, but a little sweeter.
The smell was a lie. The pepper was way hotter than a bell pepper. So, the question remains, what ARE these little peppers?
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