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I threw out a quite dusty packet 10years out of date recently.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

I bought some recently to deter the puppy from eating, door architraves, skirtings, rugs, stair runners and plastered walls. 🙄

We have white pepper for use in Asian recipes 😁

@AskingQuestionsAllTheTime Tbf you can’t really compare serving someone who is allergic and will be ill from the food to someone just not liking it.

I love pepper I buy the pre filled pepper mills from home bargains or b&M.

Totally agree with this. Get some Telicherry pepper and grind over your food. It takes the whole meal to another level.

The best pepper!

There are recipes which use white pepper. I use it in a cucumber and yogurt dish where you don't want black pepper showing.

Because a guest is cooking at it costs £1. Why all the drama?!

Just buy a small cheap pepper grinder and give it to your guest when they leave

YANBU

I don't have it either.

Yep, me too, in mash, white sauces (fish pie) and scrambled eggs. I use it more than black pepper, but I love black pepper too.

White pepper is ace and livens up most meals and soups . I like black pepper too.
It's ace.

This ^

White pepper is everything. White pepper on buttery Swede, divine . Black pepper I can take or leave but for a quid it’s good to have some.

I used it today. It's useful in e.g. white sauces where you don't want little black specks.

Not in ours. DH hates it, I can take or leave it so we don't use it in cooking, no one wants it on their dinner and we don't miss it.

Occasionally my dad likes it on beans on toast, but he wouldn't care if it wasn't there.

Waste of money, even if it is only 40p, and a waste of pepper for us to buy it.

If a guest offers to cook for me, I am happy to provide for their cooking needs within reason. Why would you not spend about £1 on a disposable black pepper mill so someone could cook for you?

I can, and I did. I prefer to be able to eat a meal if it has been cooked for me in my own house, and if it has pepper in it then I will have to go and boil an egg for myself unless I want to feel sick for the rest of the evening.

There is something hideously controlling about anyone who cooks for their host without consulting his or her preferences. "You will eat this and pretend to like it so you don't seem rude" seems pretty rude on the part of the person doing the cooking, to me.

Similarly I have a friend who dislikes onions, so I don't cook a dish with onions in it if he is coming for a meal. Isn't giving people what they like to eat rather than something they dislike just basic politeness?

How can you eat any form of cooked egg without pepper?

I like pepper but not on eggs!

I would buy it and give it to the guest to take home.

A great deal more easily than I can eat one with pepper. There is a lot less choking, gagging and going to get a glass of milk to try to get rid of the taste if there is no pepper involved.

I can't imagine a world in which a recipe for dinner doesn't start: First dice an onion. Literally, six days a week, I start dinner by dicing an onion.

Pizza base sauce almost always has a good deal of oregano. It sounds like you just don't know how to cook