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Old 12-12-2006, 08:20 PM
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I thought about that but was told that piment reffered to all peppers, including sweet peppers (because of piment doux), and you used piment fort when you wanted to refer to only hot peppers. Although in my travels I have almost always seen sweet peppers called poivrons, if not they were called piments doux, but never just piments. And chili and other hot peppers were always called piments, with piment fort being used only when someone wanted to stress the importance of getting a really hot pepper. Why I asked for the clarification.

EDIT: I read on Wiki that piment doux and piment fort are used mostly in Québec, and poivrons, for sweet peppers, and piments, for hot/chili peppers, seems to be the norm in France.

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