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Haha thanks, serves me right for skimming, I guess.

I couldn't come up with any examples of foods preserved using black pepper obviously, but that might just be cultural filtering (I'm from northern Europe).

Googling says "jams, pickles, preserves and candies" which was not very helpful.

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JFYI in Italy (in the North) there are a number of ham-like products that are essentially "covered" in pepper, example:

https://www.menatti.com/en/prodotto/peppered-prosciutto-crud...

But usually most hams have the "cut" part covered in ground salt and black pepper anyway.

yup most aged dried or smoked meat products in this area use a mixture of salt, pepper, and various herbs to preserve the meat. prosciutto and bacon most notably.

Pastrami, Italian sausage

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