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I threw out a quite dusty packet 10years out of date recently.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

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.

Rarely use black pepper, white has a far superior flavour

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...

Because you have guests and it is polite?

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

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

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.

I had some on my Tesco shop at the weem d

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

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

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 I think we have a jar of coffee but it's probably out of date and we don't have much in the way of spices as I don't like spicy food.

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?

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

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.

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

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.

It's very nice with soup.

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

If it’s just you in the house, you don’t have to stock anything you don’t eat.

if you ever host guests for meals, it is customary to provide salt and pepper for seasoning the food to each guests liking. Given how inexpensive these condiments are and how long they can be stored, it would be very odd to not go ahead and provide them.

I wouldn’t buy it as I don’t like pepper (other than a pepper sauce but only have that at my in-laws house as my fil makes a mean pepper sauce) but I have to as my husband LOVES pepper on everything. So I literally just have a pepper shaker because it came with the salt and I think Iv filled it once in 10 years..

@bluecomputerscreen I am pretty sure that the OP is not going to listen to anyone and is determined to be unreasonable!!! waste of time commenting on benefits or otherwise of having pepper in the house because she just doesnt use it therefore no one else will ever be using it either!!

This! I don’t drink coffee - hate the taste and the smell of it as it goes - but I always have some in because people visit. You are not being unreasonable but you are being weird, someone is cooking for you, spend two quid to get them pepper!

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

Okaaaay...

Buy one and make sure they take it when they go.
It's a quid in the pound aisle at Morrisons.

I buy my white pepper ready ground.
It’s not like black pepper where you want it freshly ground. White peppercorns have had their skins removed so they don’t crack in quite the same way black ones do.
I agree with others that in mash, bechemel, tomato soup, Chinese food and cheese on toast it has to be white pepper.