Capsicum

Okay.

And then I got some Tony Paco's Pickles and Peppers, which looks fantastic,

actually.

Yeah.

W- like, what's the history of us humans and capsaicin?

So the genus, uh, Capsicum, this is the pepper, the chili pepper genus-

Mm-hmm

... is from the Americas.

therefore by the time morrison and alderton were experimenting with sodas in waco she would have been only 11 years old unless you're currently about to comment on different times where an 11 year olds could be courted by an adult or even alter teen male in a socially acceptable way we're going to go ahead and thoroughly debunk that in the bonus facts later in the video so stay tuned for those who don't care to watch that far we'll just say for now that it has never in recorded history been terribly socially acceptable for an adult male to court a young teen girl nor has it ever been common for a young teen girl or even to an extent an older teen girl to get married and it was actually the baby boomer generation who saw one of the lowest marriage age averages in recorded history oddly enough and if you don't believe us just watch the end and we're definitely not doing that for youtube algorithmic reasons But for now, either Charles Pepper had some extremely good reasons to tell Morrison to get the hell out of his store, town, and state trying to court his 11-year-old daughter, or, more realistically, the entire story is just a wagonload of bovine gastrointestinal waste.

evidence that Morrison may have never even met the Peppers.

Millie Walker, curator at the Dublin, Texas, Dr. Pepper Bottle & Co.

Museum, has pored over U.S. census records and found that before moving to Waco, Wade Morrison lived in Christianburg, Virginia, 40 miles from rural retreat.

So they're both in the family Solanaceae.

So tomatoes are Solanum lycopersicum, and peppers are in the genus Capsicum.

They're very closely related genera in the same family.

Mm-hmm.

living.

Garden's full of peppers.

Peppers, peppers.

Peppers is

all like Donkey Kong.

Yeah, that's my job today is I'm going to ferment some, I'm going to freeze dry some, and I'm going to pickle some.

Really,

all we have right now is peppers.

Okay.

It's called Capsicum.

[laughs]

[laughs] Sorry, sorry.

Okay, cool.

Cool.

Capsicum.

I'm gonna stop 'cause this is making it any better.

At some point around the time the El Brujo people were eating chilies, or since then, nobody really knows, we domesticated five species that we still enjoy today.

Now, the, uh, most important of these species is Capsicum annum, which is believed to have been domesticated in what is today Mexico.

Uh, so these five species basically have their niches historically.

There were places where they were domesticated first.

After cooling down, we decided to take a step back and taste a mild pepper.

We followed Maricel's advice and moved on to taste another one of the five species, a chinense.

Capsicum chinense has cultivars all over, different colors, different shades, different levels of, of heat.

For example, uh, one of the favorite peppers of Peruvian cooks is something called aji panca.

Now, I was just thinking about like next spring, but that leads to my other question.

Peppers have a good growing season in the fall, correct?

It depends.

There's a huge number of different peppers.