no not have pepper in the house?

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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I threw out a quite dusty packet 10years out of date recently.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?

BTW, I have both black and white peppercorns in grinders.

You might need to look at other recipes. I enjoy a recipe with a decent base, which can often include onions. But it doesn't have to.

In fact, if you watched Jamie O during lockdown, he often uses leeks instead as Jools really hates onions.

That's the beauty of cooking. You don't have to have the flavours you dislike.

I'm unreasonably incredulous at the thought of no pepper, no salt, no sugar, no herbs, no spices, no onions, no garlic households.

I'll light a candle tonight for those poor kitchens unable to fulfil thier destiny 🙏

I think it's tight fisted and awkward not to buy something as cheap as pepper if a guest wants it. I also think its tight fisted not to have a few teabags and a bit of sugar available. I never drink tea but I have some for visitors. Very petty to actually make a mumsnet thread out of it.

Same here. Eating at those posters houses sounds like a joyless affair.

Although I also eat plain food I would get bored if I couldn't ring the changes with something more flavourful.

Two things jumped out here for me.

1. What do you think "pizza" tastes of? Many do have herbs in the sauce anyway.

1. I've been told by a lot of Italians that Brits overestimate how much oregano Italian food requires, so you're probably not alone.

I cannot imagine eating without seasoning

I've been told by a lot of Italians that Brits overestimate how much oregano Italian food requires, so you're probably not alone

I think pizzas in an Itaian restaurant taste more strongly of oregano than any we make because the herb itself has more taste. It will be fresher and not have sat on a supermarket shelf for ages.

I brought some oregano back from a recent holiday in Greece as it has more flavour than anything I can buy here.

salt, pepper, oil and sugar. Have these always , may be flour also

Hate pepper never use it in cooking or applying to food.just yuke dh loves the ruddy stuff 🙄. We have a pepper mill I've never filled it

My senior aged mum is a very plain cook. She never has it in because she says she doesn't use it. I put it in everything, with a pinch of salt. Each to their own.

let me get this straight
-you don’t own a pepper grinder or keep black pepper in the house
-you also, won’t buy a grinder or keep black pepper in the house.
-you made this decision before writing the post so honestly, does this really warrant a post or are you just bored?

I don’t add salt or pepper to any food so I don’t have it in the house. Always get mentioned when the family come round for fish and chips!

Still, you won’t become sick from eating it. So it is not a fair comparison. It’s a dislike, as you say yourself.

No shit.

@yeesh "Black pepper goes in everything surely? I don’t know anyone that wouldn’t have it"

Allergy testing has shown I am allergic to black pepper. Interestingly, not to white pepper. I don't keep it in the house.

I use finely-ground white pepper as my ASD child likes the taste of pepper but panics if there are black flecks in the food.

No, I understand what black and white pepper are and I find them both intolerably strong. I can eat paprika, except the extra-strong stuff. I love onions and garlic, I put them in pretty much everything, and I use lots of herbs.

Pepper is horrible I don't blame you x

Nope, I wouldn't facilitate the cooking of a peppery meal I had to eat....they could bring their own pepper!
But then I wouldn't be having a friend or relative round who didn't already know I was going to be painfully honest about everything (I've always lacked any kind of filter).

I only have salt and sugar in as I make bread, def no pepper.
I do cook with other spices though and I buy tea bags for others even though I hate tea.....just don't make me eat pepper!

I quite like white pepper on cauliflower.

I despise the taste of salt but have it in the house for visitors. So many people over salt and that's literally all you can taste in their cooking - blerk!

Pepper - yum on certain things. Significantly better than salt.

I also detest oregano. I think it’s one of those things like coriander, if you hate it it is super overpowering.

I have never bought pepper. I hate it .

Some one else mentioned white pepper being seen as less posh than black. I think you're both right. I recall ground white pepper being used by my middle class, but not very worldly grandmother, but my far more cosmopolitan mother used black pepper.

I suspect black pepper and peppercorns became a thing the same way and at the time olive oil started to be used generally for cooking , rather than unblocking ears.

White pepper probably got the heave ho by the Elizabeth David generation as being too parochial, too British but it's made a comeback.

I can't imagine not having black or white pepper in the house or making just about anything savoury without onions.