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[meangradin]

Is there a difference between a bell pepper and a paprika? I thought paprika was a spice made from sweet red peppers. The text I am teaching from advises students to order paprika on their pizza, but it looks like a bell pepper to me.

[Sina qua non]

I heard that paprika is what alot of us call a red bell pepper.

Lotteria has the paprika bacon burger (or something like that) that has the red bell pepper as a featured ingredient.

[jennateacher]

Paprika is a hungarian spice. It is made from dried red hot peppers. There are a few varieties that vary in color and heat.

It is yet another case of dictionary misuse in Korea to call fresh bell peppers paprika.

[frankly speaking]

Jennateacher is correct. The other name for bell peppers is capsicums; mainly said by Australians.

The other thing that gets me is Laver, instead of sea-weed. My students said to me, "I love laver." I just couldn't figure out what he was saying. Until he said it in Korean.

Paprika should never be used to indicate bell peppers. Just change it in the book and tell the students the more common word is bell pepper.

[ajuma]

Yeah...I thought "laver" was short for lavatory!!

[jade]

Bell Peppers or Capsicums actually are refered to as Pimento in Korea as they are in many other contries. Or when it is said it sounds like pimen.

Paprika is purely a spice made from peppers.

[Return Jones]

Paprika is indeed a misnomer. It's a spice, not a pepper. Growing up in eastern Canada and the northeastern US we always just named them by their respective colours - red pepper, green pepper, etc.

[dogshed]

I bought some red and yellow peppers at Emart in Wonju and the sign had paprika spelled in hangul. -Jeff

[dogshed]

[Njord]