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no not have pepper in the house?

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bluecomputerscreen · 31/07/2024 17:45

I just don't use it in cooking (use many other spices and herbs though).
I threw out a quite dusty packet 10years out of date recently.

relative is visiting and has offered to cook and asked for the pepper.

aibu not to buy any?

what are the bets that my relative will buy us a pepper shaker?

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masomenos · 31/07/2024 18:32

Just keep a few sachets of black pepper at home, the ones you get from takeaways

LuluBlakey1 · 31/07/2024 18:32

user8464987632 · 31/07/2024 17:46

I think its quite unusual not to have black pepper and a grinder but I don't think anyone has used white pepper since 1988

It's very nice with soup.

S0livagant · 31/07/2024 18:32

WalkingonWheels · 31/07/2024 18:24

We use it a lot too. There are some things that have to be white pepper!

Mashed potato, cauliflower cheese, all over a roast dinner, tomato soup and a full English.

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Why do these have to be white pepper? I've always used (plenty of) black pepper. I don't think I've even seen white peppercorns in the supermarket.

CautiousLurker · 31/07/2024 18:32

bluecomputerscreen · 31/07/2024 17:47

why?

I don't use it.

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For when you have guests? Or do you never have anyone over? It’s not something that goes off and is quite cheap anyway…

Pluvia · 31/07/2024 18:32

Fink · 31/07/2024 18:15

I check the ingredients list, it's just second nature. And I make sure to tell restaurants when I'm ordering. Family keep it in the house and just add it at the table if they want, or tell me what dishes it's in so I avoid them.

If I were eating at someone's house and they had added pepper, I would force myself to eat it for the sake of the relationship and politeness. I'm not allergic to it, I just wouldn't taste anything but pepper for some time afterwards.

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I think you're confusing chilli or cayenne or hot paprika or fresh chillis with what most of us use at most meals — which is black or white or coloured small peppercorns either ground or ground in a grinder at the table. Ground pepper doesn't make food particularly spicy, but it does give a gentle warm flavour that enhances most things.

No pepper, no onions, no garlic... I want to cry.

Willyoushutthefrontdoor · 31/07/2024 18:32

I don't use pepper on anything. I just don't like it. If the OH cooks he will use it and I won't even notice though.

As to why should you buy one...well no one actually GaF here tbh but probably because your guest is cooking you a meal and you wont spare a quid for their gesture

margegunderson · 31/07/2024 18:32

I don't understand why the OP doesn't want pepper (she hasn't said she doesn't like it) or why it's so vital that none is bought, or why if it was you wouldn't then hang on to it and maybe use it/let others use it. Tiny pot, inexpensive and useful for flavour. Perhaps OP has spent too much time with the stroppy teens and it's catching?

PinkSparklyPussyCat · 31/07/2024 18:30

I don't like pepper, I would never put it on or in food. I do have a pepper grinder but I have no idea if there's any pepper in it as I only have it as it was part of a set.

If we don't use something we don't have it. I think we have a jar of coffee but it's probably out of date and we don't have much in the way of spices as I don't like spicy food.

Jc2001 · 31/07/2024 18:29

Growlybear83 · 31/07/2024 18:28

I don't see why the OP should buy an ingredient that she never uses just because someone else is cooking. I don't use salt in anything and haven't bought any in more years than I can remember. I don't think I've got any sugar either. I wouldn't buy salt and sugar just because someone else was cooking for me.

Don't buy it then. But equally, don't ask strangers on the internet if you're being unreasonable.

S0livagant · 31/07/2024 18:29

quietdays · 31/07/2024 18:16

For white sauces like bechamel, mashed potatoes and Chinese food. If you like to cook it would be weird not to have white pepper.

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I only make mashed potato out of those. I use black pepper (or rainbow).

GoldenRetrieverBert · 31/07/2024 18:29

user8464987632 · 31/07/2024 17:46

I think its quite unusual not to have black pepper and a grinder but I don't think anyone has used white pepper since 1988

I had some on my Tesco shop at the weem d Grin

Growlybear83 · 31/07/2024 18:28

I don't see why the OP should buy an ingredient that she never uses just because someone else is cooking. I don't use salt in anything and haven't bought any in more years than I can remember. I don't think I've got any sugar either. I wouldn't buy salt and sugar just because someone else was cooking for me.

Jc2001 · 31/07/2024 18:28

bluecomputerscreen · 31/07/2024 18:11

will still not go buy pepper <gavel>

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What exactly are you hoping to achieve with this post? Do you just want to let people you don't use pepper?

Tagyoureit · 31/07/2024 18:28

I love black freshly ground black pepper on everything!! Lush!

Sharptonguedwoman · 31/07/2024 18:28

bluecomputerscreen · 31/07/2024 17:47

why?

I don't use it.

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Because you have guests and it is polite?

PfishFood · 31/07/2024 18:27

YABVVU - I love pepper! I even have a pepper grinder in my desk drawer at work. Yum!

Pepper on steak/beef and pepper on corn on the cobs are my favourites... plus cacio e pepe pasta...

Notthatcatagain · 31/07/2024 18:26

Rarely use black pepper, white has a far superior flavour

GreenWheat · 31/07/2024 18:26

It seems like you're digging your heels in to make some perverse point about how fabulously unusual you are for not having pepper. You can literally buy a little plastic pepper mill with peppercorns in it in most supermarkets. Just get that for their visit, then either give it to them or chuck it straight in the bin after they leave. This is so trivial.

quietdays · 31/07/2024 18:25

WalkingonWheels · 31/07/2024 18:24

We use it a lot too. There are some things that have to be white pepper!

Mashed potato, cauliflower cheese, all over a roast dinner, tomato soup and a full English.

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And fried potatoes.

HellsBells67 · 31/07/2024 18:25

user8464987632 · 31/07/2024 17:46

I think its quite unusual not to have black pepper and a grinder but I don't think anyone has used white pepper since 1988

I use white pepper loads, especially in Chinese cooking. Also have a very large pepper grinder which is in use constantly.

rainbowunicorn · 31/07/2024 18:25

PeloMom · 31/07/2024 17:49

YANBU. Every house is different. You’ll never find sugar and onions in my house. It’s just not something we use. Even if it’s 1p I wouldn’t buy them as I don’t need them.

What do you cook? Literally 90% of recipes usually start with onion. I don't know how its possible to cook without them.

RampantIvy · 31/07/2024 18:25

In answer to @bluecomputerscreen YABVU, sorry.

WalkingonWheels · 31/07/2024 18:24

CoastalCalm · 31/07/2024 18:15

I use it every day

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We use it a lot too. There are some things that have to be white pepper!

Mashed potato, cauliflower cheese, all over a roast dinner, tomato soup and a full English.

RampantIvy · 31/07/2024 18:24

onwardandupwards · 31/07/2024 17:53

We don't have pepper either, no one likes it. We don't even have any herbs or spices at all. Garlic salt is as good as it gets 😂

Your meals must be very bland. Do you never go out for an Italian, a curry, a Thai, a Chinese or get a takeaway?

I love freshly ground black pepper. It has lots of flavour without much heat.

My mum didn't like it so I never got to taste it until I was an adult. As a result my sister and I use it liberally on food. A steak au poivre is delicious.

LittleYellowCloth · 31/07/2024 18:23

OP, in essence, you are asking “someone is going to do me a very kind favour which saves me a job. AIBU to be rude enough not to make a contribution to that favour which will only cost me £2?”