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But would you eat chilli peppers like how you'd eat other fruits and veggies? Say tomatoes or beets. No. ofcourse not.

I eat raw but pickled chillies far more frequently than raw tomatoes. (I never eat raw beetroot so I'll leave that, though I'm surprised people do. Or are 'beets' not beetroot?)

I eat raw and not even pickled chillies in salads or on the side of a plate of other food at least as much as tomatoes the same way.

More often pickled, but that's largely for convenience, in no small part for extra vinegary flavour, and not really at all to make them more mild.

But I already said that above and you clearly don't believe me. I don't think it's uncommon either, fwiw, I'm not at all claiming to be unique or anything like it.

Yeah some people do, in asian cultures it's not uncommon. Actually they eat it more like an apple than a beet.

It was my grandma favorite snack. The hotter the better.

Conditioning is very powerful.

I don't know what you mean. Raw chillis are commonly served in this area (Eastern Europe) together with soups, just like raw onions, for example.

However, I've never seen anyone eat a raw beetroot. And of course, people don't put tomatoes in fruit salads, as the old saying goes - different fruit are eaten in different ways.

Raw beetroot is actually a great salad vegetable. We have it grated sometimes. Some can be a little earthy and have a bit of heat like radish or ginger.

Had raw grated beetroot in my salad today for lunch, and very tasty it was too. I pulled it out of the ground five weeks ago, weighed 1.4kg - it's the purple-and-white stripey version, makes the salad quite colourful. Been cutting bits off it to grate every time I have a salad. For some reason, beetroot seems to keep extremely well in the fridge.

Best to do when fresh. Most when store bought are a few months old they are a lot tougher and harder to digest.

Oh, I started when it was fresh. It takes a while to munch through a 1.4kg root. And it actually seems to be remarkably unaffected by time, so far. Probably only a couple more salads left in it now.

When I was a kid we use to eat them by plucking them from a tree, dipping them in salt, and then devouring them. It was just something people did.

Well you don't eat potatoes raw do you? Nor do you eat an eggplant raw and many others. I don't understand the argument here

Eggplant and potato are aren’t fruits. Chiles are fruits, and most edible fruits are eaten raw.

Eggplants are fruits, in biology definition

Raw potatoes are risky because of toxins that can be present.

Yes I do, and most Koreans do too.

We dip raw peppers into a hot pepper sauce. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-bwUP77ElM

> But would you eat chilli peppers like how you'd eat other fruits and veggies? Say tomatoes or beets. No. ofcourse not.

Yes, of course I do. What point do you think you're making?

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